Scalability

NEXIS solutions allow complete scalability, so your storage system can grow with your facility and meet bandwidth requirements for UHD, 4K and beyond, across many users and many connected devices. Currently the NEXIS system can scale to deliver an aggregated storage system bandwidth of over 20GBps (yes, that is gigabytes per second) with an Advanced File System licence and a System Director Appliance.

E2, E4 and E5 units can be combined, either with an embedded system director or in conjunction with an external System Director Appliance and Avid | FS Advanced. This means you can achieve the balance of capacity, performance and accessibility you need, with up to 6PB of storage available in a single enterprise NEXIS system.

Flexibility

NEXIS is able to cater to all your creative applications, including Media Composer, Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. Editors can use whichever tool is right for the job, safe in the knowledge that their storage system can handle whatever they throw at it.

Within the storage itself, you have the ability to choose between multiple capacities and performance tiers (for example, the E2 is available as an HDD or all-Flash array, so you can take advantage of the speed of SSDs if you have sufficient bandwidth). You can also build in different levels of redundancy and protection to keep pace with your changing needs.

Resilience

With expert level support available across the NEXIS range, and redundant power and cooling as standard, you can ensure your storage system stays in good condition. Adding the optional Redundant Controller will enable system redundancy and provide high availability for all data.

You can choose from a range of Storage Protection schemes, with system designs that protect against the loss of one, two or five media disks within your NEXIS engine, or the loss of one full storage engine (to handle these larger failures, you’ll need to use mirror protection that requires three or more identical engines).

NEXIS | Cloudspaces

Introduced at NAB 2019, Avid NEXIS | Cloudspaces allows you to extend your NEXIS storage into the cloud, without losing any of the media management functionality that your local NEXIS storage provides, or having to invest in and learn any new software.

You get 2TB of free cloud storage for three months with every NEXIS engine you purchase, and can buy on an annual subscription basis. With direct integration with your local NEXIS storage and access to industry standard media management tools, Cloudspaces is the simplest way to sync and back up media to the cloud, park projects away from your online storage, and extend your storage quickly and securely when times are busy.

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NEXIS Enterprise

The NEXIS Enterprise range is more powerful and scalable then the PRO range, and is designed to meet the demands of production and post facilities no matter what format they are asked to work in. E2, E4 and E5 units are populated with Media Packs, clusters of media drives with capacities ranging from 20TB to 100TB. You can add Media Packs to scale up your storage, combine Media Packs of different sizes and drive types, and even run engines that are only partially populated with Media Packs then scale up when needed.

NEXIS SSD

For post-production facilities that require maximum media throughput for demanding finishing, colour grading and VFX workflows, Avid offer the NEXIS | E2 SSD. This all-SSD array features a 40GbE connection so that you can take advantage of the full speed advantages of SSDs.

NEXIS E5 | NL

For Avid NEXIS-equipped, MediaCentral-enabled creative teams, Avid also offer high-density, disk-based nearline storage for parked projects. With higher capacities and lower bandwidth connections, the NL represents a more cost-effective option for storing parked projects.

ACSR Training

As an Avid Learning Partner, we can deliver technical training for end users and facility engineers, and can help your support staff earn their Avid Certified Support Representative qualification. Courses are delivered periodically – get in touch using the form below to find out about the next available date.