Facilis HUB Shared Storage

Facilis HUB Shared Storage for video editing is a system dedicated to improving post-production and content creation workflows. Included with every server is the Facilis Shared File System which easily accommodates multi-platform environments and enables collaboration among different applications and image formats. With our media storage systems, you can deliver 4K film color grading to low-bitrate craft editorial in a bigger environment. Facilis HUB provides the performance to get the job done. Look through our video storage servers and see why Facilis Technology is your shared storage solution.

The Facilis Console gives you total control over your shared storage environment. Create, change and permission project-based storage volumes, and deploy them to the desktops of the facility workstations with the push of a button. Monitor real-time bandwidth usage by workstation and volume and apply the optimal server and client connections dynamically.

Log in securely to manage the workgroup from any workstation, or on any web-enabled device that can access the server IP address. Through our data storage system console, you can set up users and groups with your active directory server for a single point of user account administration, or apply permissions based on desktop user account and/or secure user and password.

Facilis Technology has developed a unique feature called FastCache. The Facilis HUB family of servers utilizes a custom shared file system, developed by Facilis Technology since 2009. Because of the dedicated connectivity when using this shared file system, Facilis servers can optimize throughput, and control the data caching on client workstations.

FastCache leverages Facilis’ custom shared file system to write any accessed data to local storage, and/or system memory on the client workstation while always maintaining an active path to the central storage volumes for collaboration and seamless workflow.

Client workstations connected to the Facilis servers through any method can use FastCache, although the lower-link speed connections like VPN and WANLink will benefit the most from this feature. Any data that is read from the shared storage volumes through the normal connection will be written locally to an encrypted data set. This data set is only available to be used when connected to the server and mounting the matching storage volume. This ensures that administrative permissions will be upheld even for cached data.

Because the local storage or RAM copy of the data is likely faster than the server connection, playback of video files will succeed even if the server connection may not support real time streaming. The editing application will continue to use the mounted volume through the low bitrate connection as the source of the video files, but when reading any data that has previously been read, the cached version will automatically be used instead. If any files change on the server, they are re-read and thereby re-cached, and the previous data is flushed. There is no need to synchronize or update the cache in any way besides simply reading the new file as a part of the editing workflow.