enSANtra was designed specifically for storing and sharing extremely high bandwidth and high-resolution media, accessible to anyone on the network.  The enSANtra HD media network offers significant advantages over our competition due to its Open Standards architecture,  Open Source accessibility, built on  a specially designed Linux media 64 Bit Distribution,  thats the enSANtra difference. The enSANtra HD media network offers significant performance, setup, and administrative advantages over standard storage area networks (SANs). LMA implements  highly optimized Linux open source file system architecture. enSANtra also has cross platform sharing and rendering support for a growing number of  applications, including Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Irix applications.. enSANtra will  deliver a full range of uncompressed and compressed media in real time, including 1080p, 1080i, 720p, Mpeg-2, Mpeg-4, JPEG-2000, and H.264. enSANtra has an MXF option, within the MXF Master program to enable the operator to encode and  wrap all files in the Open Standards MXF wrapper.  This enables the network to index and search all new and existing media files. enSANtra enables editing, finishing, audio, rendering, and graphics work to be shared on enSANtra simultaneously —using the same media files and projects—in a shared workspace.   LMA storage  often achieves over 500 Megabytes per/second on U320 architecture. 

High-speed file sharing for SAN that sets new standards for work group collaboration

EnSANtra 2.0 enables multiple users to share access to common data files in work groups where heavy bandwidth requirements are the norm. With EnSANtra 2.0, film and video editors, digital artists, health care specialists, and corporate users can simultaneously access a common pool of data files such as video clips, databases, satellite imagery, medical archives, or CAD files - as easily and transparently as if the content was stored on their local drive.

EnSANtra innovates with true file sharing, native OS file system and access rights management, Avid Unity Media File virtualization, dynamic metadata master arbitration model, and seamless integration with LAN networks. These innovations ensure a perfectly transparent and reliable networked shared storage that can fuel the most creative environments in addition to greatly reducing the cost of managing mission-critical resources

EnSANtra’s user-friendly file-level sharing capability offers far more flexibility than the more common volume-level based sharing that imposes serious work flow restrictions.

With EnSANtra, you manage accesses to your shared storage the same way you normally would for any other local drive. There is no need for special disk formatting or management utilities, or for creating or managing special user accounts. Network administrators simply use standard OS account management tools to grant or deny access to the individual users.

EnSANtra is fully transparent and compatible with standard applications, including Adobe Digital Video Collection and Apple Final Cut Pro. In addition, the unique Avid Unity MediaFile virtualization feature enables efficient collaboration among multiple users of Avid software. EnSANtra also supports the leading vendors of storage technology such as Atto, Brocade, IBM, Emulex, LSI, Qlogic, Seagate, and Xyratex.

For those in mission-critical environment, EnSANtra’s dynamic metadata master arbitration model provides the failover mechanism that ensures 24/7 operations by eliminating the risks of downtime associated with conventional metadata controller-based architecture.

EnSANtra seamlessly integrates with your existing LAN network. With the addition of MetaLAN, a multi-point gateway software that connects your enterprise LAN with your high-speed SAN, your facility-wide LAN-based users can also benefit from many unique EnSANtra advantages.

EnSANtra’s innovative approach results in increased efficiency, flexibility, scalability, and reliability. By overcoming the limitations of traditional SAN management software, EnSANtra enables significant productivity gains and storage savings that are easily measurable.