The Lab

Test, collaborate & be blown away with what pixstor can do

Change can be disruptive and resource-limiting. That’s why we’ve created a space where our customers can experience the ultimate flexibility of our solutions at our dedicated facility, The Lab. The pixitmedia Lab at our UK headquarters – close to Heathrow airport and with easy access to central London – showcases the ins and outs of the complete pixstor ecosystem, and cutting edge integration where you can test, collaborate and train with us first-hand in a real-world production environment.

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Our ultra-secure remote access security is enabled by powerful IPsec tunnels to client sites, with multi-tenanting and containerised storage, which adhere to security best practices. pixitmedia supports any workflow for Media Production, Post Production, Visual FX, Broadcast and Remote Editing by integrating a full complement of legacy, current and cutting-edge hardware with major Cloud services.

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Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe Inc. that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services.

Aspera is a data transport and streaming technology company that provides high speed data transfer services. Aspera belongs to the hybrid cloud business unit of IBM.

Assimilate SCRATCH is a powerful online editing and finishing application, which also holds it’s own as an on-set colour grading and dailies creation tool. … It can also produce automated clip reports and edit and export all available shot metadata.

ATTO Technology designs, develops and manufactures high-performance storage and network technology. Our products and software are used by companies across the globe from Hollywood production studios to corporate banks including many OEMs. ATTO is known for our reliable products that just work and our excellent customer support.

Flame® 3D VFX and finishing software provides powerful tools for 3D compositing, visual effects and editorial finishing. An integrated, creative environment means faster compositing, advanced graphics, colour correction and more.

Autodesk Maya,is a 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation and currently owned and developed by Autodesk.

A high-performance image viewer and playback system for VFX and animation production. Originally developed by Tweak Software and acquired by Autodesk in 2015, RV is a high-performance image viewer and playback system designed for VFX and animation work.

Shotgun is software that simplifies creative project management and unifies visual effects (VFX), animation and games teams of all sizes.

Avid Media Composer is a film and video editing software application or non-linear editing system developed by Avid Technology.

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation developed and released by Avid Technology for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture and, more generally, sound recording, editing, and mastering processes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

FilmLight develops unique colour grading systems, image processing applications and workflow tools that are transforming film and video post-production and setting new standards for quality, reliability and performance. Our streamlined metadata-based workflows employ robust products with the best creative tools, allowing creative professionals to work at the forefront of the digital media revolution ‘At Every Stage’ of modern workflows.

DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool! Its elegant, modern interface is fast to learn and easy enough for new users, yet powerful for professionals. DaVinci Resolve lets you work faster and at a higher quality because you don’t have to learn multiple apps or switch software for different tasks.

OSD is a dedicated dailies system, designed to rapidly deliver color graded sound sync dailies from many hours of footage in multiple version and faster than realtime.

Transkoder is based on Colorfront’s award winning On-set Dailies architecture and uses cost-effective, commodity hardware, to deliver faster-than-real-time processing to transcode, decode, convert, wrap and process files to various high-end file formats.

The DIAMANT-Film Restoration Software is a professional solution for automatic, semi-automatic and interactive film restoration, cleaning, enhancement and repair. Since 2001 DIAMANT-FILM Restoration is being used successfully in film archives, post production houses, studios and laboratories around the world.

Nucoda is a premium colour grading and finishing solution for feature films, commercials and broadcast applications. It combines a creative tool set, and integration with the Avid workflow including full support for Avid Interplay and Avid NEXIS storage devices Setting new standards in the highest quality.

Isilon is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data.

Sherpa from Escape Technology is a cloud aggregation tool developed by engineers with decades of experience in visual effects and content delivery. It uses a unique approach that enables users to operate a fully functioning cloud-based pipeline: workstations, storage, and render.

Excelero delivers low-latency distributed block storage for web-scale applications. NVMesh enables shared NVMe across any network and supports any local or distributed file system.

Nuke is a node-based digital compositing and visual effects application first developed by Digital Domain, and used for television and film post-production. Nuke is available for Microsoft Windows 7, OS X 10.9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and newer versions of these operating systems.

Frame.io is the only video collaboration platform that voluntarily complies with both TPN and SOC 2 Type 2 to protect your content and data. Frame.io allows you to upload footage 5X faster than Dropbox, comment directly on the clip, draw directly on the video to relay your message clearly, and compare versions side by side.

Modernize your content production and distribution operations while transforming audience experiences across the world. Our growing ecosystem of trusted industry partners can help media companies solve their most complex business challenges across the entire content supply chain. Make applications and services portable and provide consistent experiences across on-premises, public, or private cloud without the fear of vendor lock-in.

HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) is a high-performance 3D or media-rich remote desktop connection protocol that delivers an exceptional remote desktop user experience for rich user environments that include video, web flash animations and graphics intensive applications.

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American cloud platform and cognitive solutions multinational technology and consulting company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM produce and sell computer hardware, middleware and software, and provide hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

iconik will sync all your existing storage so you can search and preview it all in one place. Because iconik is built for the hybrid cloud, it offers the best of both cloud and local storage, to give you a holistic view of all your content, from any device.

Intel hardware-enabled security boosts protection and enables the ecosystem to better defend against evolving and modern cybersecurity threats.

The Mac Pro is Apple’s workstation. It’s designed for professionals who need a powerful and flexible machine, and is ideal for applications that use as many processing cores as possible—video-editing applications, image-editing software, 3D programs, and the like.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centres. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Microsoft Windows (also referred to as Windows or Win) is a graphical operating system developed and published by Microsoft. It provides a way to store files, run software, play games, watch videos, and connect to the Internet.

The NetApp® E-Series features a complete line of high-performance, high-density storage systems with over one million systems deployed globally across industries. As one of the most popular platforms for media processing, NetApp E-Series storage systems can be configured for all sizes of media organizations, from corporate media and local broadcast news operations to 4K post production, large cable services, and global internet delivery. The system is architected with modular, flexible components that can be configured to meet the specific requirements of media operations. This enables efficiency at all stages of media workflow (ingest, manage, produce, process, deliver, archive, and transact) for collaborative workgroups off all sizes.

For live broadcasting, content distribution and post production alike, Mellanox’s leading IP-based technologies enrich the video experience and bring the audience and content closer together. The move from HD to 4K/UHD, 8K & HDR not only shows the need for absolute bandwidth, but also shows the inability of the current proprietary technology (SDI) & traditional Fibre Channel storage to deliver. Driven by their need to have the underlying hardware innovate at their speed, the media & entertainment industry is now transitioning to a converged Ethernet fabric for both their application and the storage, an open standard that has been powering the datacenters for decades. Mellanox empowers our customers to create, process and deliver contents quickly with the next-gen IP networking.

Strawberry is an award-winning Production Asset Management Suite (PAM), designed to keep productions organized and collaboration flexible. Strawberry solves key storage and workflow management issues that plague every media production house. For a PAM to be effective, it must integrate tightly with key creative applications, accelerate production workflows, and manage the underlying production storage.

Artist Anywhere is a powerful new platform as a service initiative from DESIGN that enables the seamless deployment and scale of a remote production pipeline.

Seagate systems deliver unprecedented efficiency using components that are engineered, built, and tested to work together flawlessly. Enterprises can be assured that every bit and byte of value from our industry-leading drives is being enabled through the critical, mechanical elements of our JBOD, RAID, and application platforms. We are a trusted partner, as we store most of the world’s data—shipping over 400 Exabytes per year. For 40+ years we’ve offered the best products, expert service, and support. We offer great value. From petabyte to exabyte, we offer the best storage solutions at the best value with industry-leading capacity, firmware, and multi-core capabilities. We also offer high compatibility. As the only enterprise storage manufacturer that designs and builds its entire system, Seagate creates unparalleled partner integration and compatibility.

Signiant’s intelligent file movement software helps the world’s top content creators and distributors ensure fast, secure delivery of large files over public and private networks. Built on Signiant’s patented technology, the company’s on-premises software and SaaS solutions move petabytes of high-value data every day between users, applications and systems with proven ease.

End-to-end life cycle management and digital preservation for institutional file collections. Starfish provides visibility and control into your file systems by allowing users to catalog, manage, move, and report on all files from creation to publication.

StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator is the only software solution for Windows, allowing you to get all the benefits of network-connected NVMe storage. It is a software module that connects any Windows or Windows Server host to the NVMe-oF ( NVMe/TCP and NVMe/RoCE ) storage target. Using TCP enables organizations to leverage their existing networking for working with shared storage. The RoCE solution does require RoCE-capable Mellanox, Intel, or Broadcom cards but it also allows your applications and VMs to talk to the storage over RDMA, resulting in all I/O bypassing the CPU. As a result, more CPU remains available to your applications. StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator unlocks superior performance for your 4K and 8K post-production, VFX, and color grading applications.

Teradici is the technology leader for creating virtual workspaces and powers the spectrum of local, remote, mobile and collaborative workstyles, fundamentally simplifying how computing is provisioned, managed and used throughout virtual and cloud environments.

AWS Thinkbox Deadline is a hassle-free hybrid administration and compute management software for Windows, Linux, and mac OS based render farms, supporting more than 80 different content creation applications out of the box.

VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. Our software spans App Modernization, Cloud, Networking & Security and Digital Workspace.

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