SymplyTRANSPORTER provides an impressive degree of high performance, high security plug and play storage on set or wherever else it’s needed.
Featuring a massive 100TB of usable capacity protected by advanced erasure coding and including dual 25Gb Ethernet connectivity, SymplyTRANSPORTER provides enterprise data protection, high performance, and impressive scalability on-set, just where it seems it’s most often needed.
It enables users to quickly and securely transport content from edge locations to their facilities. Once back at base, the SymplyTRANSPORTER unit can be connected to an existing SymplyPERIFERY or DataCore Swarm in-facility cluster, and the data imported in a one click process. Once data has been transferred, SymplyTRANSPORTER can be simply reset for the next job.
It's a plug-and-play appliance that also comes in a ruggedized transport case for mission-critical protection, trouble-free transportation, and what Symply says is unparalleled ease of use.
It’s also compatible with third-party software applications, the company highlighting YoYotta and YoYotta Server — a macOS and cloud workflow tool for the production and post production industries — in its release materials. Here’s how it could work: YoYotta enables users to upload data from camera cards and other media directly to SymplyTRANSPORTER, at the same time project metadata is synced to a YoYotta Server instance in the cloud. This not only allows for large projects to be seamlessly split across different locations, it also provides a secure and effective way for managing S3 access keys and therefore improving security.
The target market is anyone that needs to handle a massive amount of data, and film crews and post houses are at the top of that particular list. And by leveraging object storage with erasure coding technologies, SymplyTRANSPORTER looks to offer far more data protection than traditional RAID systems.
“We’re excited to be working with DataCore and their Perifery software to deliver these vital storage solutions for edge computing,” says Keith Warburton, CEO at Symply. “SymplyTRANSPORTER will provide the next generation of data management for on-set applications, streamlining the process of bringing content shot on-location back to the facility for editing and saving media organisations valuable time and money.”