pixstor: Make Your Workflows "Work" for You
Packed with intelligent tools and powerful REST APIs, pixstor is a platform that delivers unmatched benefits which empower organizations to streamline their media workflows and drive efficiencies.
Software-defined storage with guaranteed performance.
pixstor is a complete storage solution, purpose-built for demanding media requirements, offering guaranteed performance from disk to desktop. A data-aware scale-out NAS platform, it ensures your data is always available, precisely when and where you need it. No compromise.
Powered by our proven high-performance parallel file system trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, pixstor can easily manage petabytes of data and billions of files, all under a single global namespace.
pixstor is the first storage solution to unify data, infrastructure and users.
Media workflows thrive with pixstor. With its software-defined architecture, pixstor provides a single global namespace that controls all commodity hardware, applications and systems in the workflow. Ethernet-based and API-driven, it fully integrates into your workflows and extends the file system across multiple locations and out into the cloud – bringing data closer to users and applications in a unified view.
With complete control of your data – wherever, whenever and however you want it – pixstor enables global collaboration without any compromise on performance.
Managing your data has never been easier.
Using intelligent automated tools, pixstor drives efficiency throughout the entire ecosystem. It offers guaranteed consistent performance, limitless scale, data control and secure collaborative access for users wherever they may be.
pixstor lets you manage and store data with confidence, dramatically improve workflows and reduce the cost of infrastructure and shared services.
And we’re so confident in our filesystem, that we offer a performance guarantee up to 99% capacity for the lifetime of the solution.
What pixstor delivers
Mac, Windows & Linux compatible, pixstor combines robust, mature filesystem software and industry-standard servers and storage components including flash, hard disk, tape, and cloud resources to deliver a powerful, affordable high-performance Ethernet-based unified namespace. Its data architecture foundation relies on a scatter algorithm to distribute writes across spinning disks, removing the impact of fragmentation on performance so there is no bandwidth degradation as the system fills – as is common on most file systems. The system’s performance enables multiple workloads to run full out up to 99% capacity – with no negative effect on finishing editors’ or artists’ user experience.
Beyond storage. pixstor empowers workflow efficiencies.
Packed with intelligent tools and powerful REST APIs featured as standard, pixstor helps you streamline your workflow and drive efficiencies. From simplified administration, powerful search, deep analytics, spin-up and down security services, transparent tiering to push-button cloud-deployment, pixstor has you covered.
pixstor Features
Direct from Desktop, across a single global namespace
pixstor includes an easy-yet-powerful tool for fast indexing and intelligent deep search capabilities across all your assets. Designed to handle hundreds of billions of files and leveraging Machine Learning and AI tools such as Machinebox, it harvests, tags and exposes your data to allow meaningful searches across the entire global namespace – enabling global collaboration with no impact on the filesystem performance.
- Lightning fast Search across the single namespace with no file system walking
- Intuitive interface reveals assets at the Desktop level for quick insertion into applications
- Supports Non-standard File Types Through an Extensible Plug-in System
- Extract & export deep metadata into workflows through REST API
- Find valuable data based on meaningful business defined metadata.
Enable seamless team & Artist-Anywhere collaboration
pixstor inspires collaboration, allowing teams to share ideas and work together on projects whether they are in the same building or on the other side of the planet. Whatever your situation – multiple offices spread across the world, hybrid workflows with on-prem or cloud-based workstations or even just a simple single location use case – pixstor has the tools and capabilities to power and adapt to your collaborative needs. It means that your facility is well-prepared to take advantage of competitive tax incentives and work as efficiently as possible – round the clock, with a minimal infrastructure investment.
- Intelligently and rapidly enables global access to data
- 100% Path Name Retention
- Can leverage Cloud-Provider networks for ultra-high speed Data Transfers
- Works seamlessly across multiple Operating Systems
- Securely shares work with third-party facilities & customers
Automated deployment to Cloud platforms
With incredibly simple push button deployment, take advantage of all of the performance, scalability and data management benefits of an on-premise pixstor installation – in the Cloud.
Driven from guided menus with a variety of sizing options, there is a pixstor in the Cloud option available for nearly any use case – whether for transcode, burst render, cloud workstations, long distance collaboration or cloud archive. With billing handled entirely within AWS and GCP marketplaces, customers are free to spin up pixstor at exactly the moment they need it.
- Combines on-prem & cloud pipelines into a single namespace
- Supports tens of thousands of CPU & GPU compute nodes
- Greater control of egress costs
- Multi-region, Multi-Provider Scalability
- Limitless, Efficient Capacity with Object Tiers
- Reduces Egress Charges & Job Start times with Selective Data Movement Direct
- Integration with job management, such as Deadline and OpenCue
- Standard Connectivity Options such as NFS & SMB
- Full Access Control List & Active Directory Support
- Sizing Templates for Push-Button Architecture Deployment
Multi-tenancy containers for security & audit-compliance
pixstor delivers true multi-tenancy capabilities within a single storage namespace. to protect your high-value assets to the most stringent security standards. This enables organisations to rapidly deploy logical and audit-compliant data separation and isolation within the pixstor environment – with no performance overhead or bottlenecks. It means that you can avoid the spiralling costs and productivity hits associated with operating separate dedicated infrastructure stacks and take on increasingly ambitious creative projects with confidence.
- No performance overhead or architectural bottlenecks
- Minimises lateral movement, reducing the attack surface
- Disposable, clusterable and floatable resources with no disruption to other tenants
- Granular control for sys admins
- Audit-compliant reference architectures, including TPN approved
Manage, migrate, replicate.
pixstor’s data management and protection capabilities are unrivalled in the software defined storage industry. By allowing facilities to migrate, replicate and snapshot data from pixstor to a huge variety of cloud, file system and tape technologies, customers are free to choose the right tool for the job without fear of vendor lock-in.
Using ngenea, our data management traffic solution, enjoy intelligent tiering within the same namespace spanning: NVMe, SSD, NLSAS, SAS and a huge range of Cloud and Object (including AWS S3, Azure Blob and Google GCS); tape technologies (including Spectrum Archive and SpectraLogic black pearl with ngenea) and third party NAS devices such as Isilon and Qumulo with ngenea.
Our capacity analytics help you to make business-led technology choices for your migration and replication targets. Finally, with a lightning fast policy engine, you can rapidly find the right data for the right activity, without ever having put your business at risk due to slow completion windows.
- Industry-leading policy engine
- Intelligent tiering within the same namespace across Cloud, file system, tape and third-party NAS devices
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
- Disk driven data protection capabilities with pixstor Sync
- Snapshots and Cloning Support
- User-driven Restore capabilities
- Anti-Virus Support
- Python and Rest API
A user-friendly UI to manage data, costs & storage strategies
pixstor features an easy-to-manage user interface with centralized control of all file system components. It provides a graphical dashboard for monitoring, alerts and performance analytics of daily pixstor tasks and is tailored to the exact needs of the administrator.
It provides unprecedented insight and trends on how data is being created and used over time. This enables users to fine-tune performance and workflow requirements, make the right expansion decisions and manage storage strategies, with a robust reporting mechanism for chargebacks.
- Secure, single pane of glass interface for monitoring & managing
- Snapshot control and Fileset management
- Performance Dashboards & Capacity Analytics
- NFS & SMB Share management
- Remote call home enablement & Support logging
