The Jellyfish also supports integrations with Active Directory and has a built-in UI for creating and managing the AD integration. The network protocol used is typically SMB, and the Jellyfish provides a user-friendly interface for managing users and groups of the SMB shares and the folders inside of them. The connection to each workstation is established by using the Jellyfish Connect application, which automatically discovers the Jellyfish and configures all the network settings. In a typical environment, users connect directly or through a switch to the Jellyfish over 10Gb Ethernet. Jellyfish Remote Access is a peer-to-peer, encrypted cloud VPN solution - an additional service that users can choose to use on a month-to-month basis.Ĭan you talk about speed, connectivity, security and how easy it is to maintain? It uses the Jellyfish transcoding power to create proxies so users can create lighter-weight versions of their media without going to the office.ĭoes your product have remote access? If so, what sort of security protections are there? Since the COVID pandemic started, we introduced a remote access service and server-based transcoding tool called the Jellyfish Media Engine. How has the way you made your product changed since COVID, if at all? What types of storage are you offering? On-prem, cloud, hybrid, etc.?įor The Jellyfish by OWC, it is an on-prem shared storage solution. OWC VP/Product and Customer Experience Gergana Angelova We also have implemented solutions from Teradici.
One solution is RealVNC, which works fine for things like system administration and some other tasks. We are using different technologies for remote access to desktops. We are still investigating how we want to proceed. We are not working in the cloud currently. How has COVID changed the way you use storage, if at all?ĬOVID has had very little impact on storage use.
We archive to each client’s specifications. Long-term archiving is done to either LTO or the cloud.
What are you using for long-term archiving? Storage use is monitored and emailed to in-house producers each morning. Our data is managed with a set of proprietary tools. We have a Synology storage array that is used for our Signiant Media Shuttle and a Dell EMC Unity to support our VMware infrastructure. The SAN storage is the working storage for dailies, editorial and color correction. All of the storage in the SAN is NetApp E-Series. Our primary storage is a Quantum StorNext SAN. What different types of storage are you using? They work in HD, 2K, UHD and 4K in both HDR10 and Dolby Vision. The Foundation Post is a full-service post facility that does dailies, conform, color correction, VFX and deliverables.