ArchiveFS presents a StorNext Archive as a user-friendly and application-friendly file system hosted on a Mac. Safely browse archive volumes without triggering unwanted restores from LTO tape or Object storage. Intelligently manage bandwidth, checksumming, versioning, and permissions.

ArchiveFS is deployed with two New Zealand broadcasters and manages more than 500,000 assets.

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Developed by Factorial, Nekehia is a custom macOS archiving app built to suit Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's primary requirements — ensure assets are packaged correctly, and ensure they are safely transferred to their Storage Manager based archive.

Nekehia packages flexible folder structures ('Asset Bundles'), ensures the contents conform to specific naming rules, catalogues and checksums each item, and uses this information to ensure 'Asset Bundle' integrity from initial packaging right through to the final archive destination transfer.

Alongside detailed reporting and error catching, Nekehia supports batch processing, fast memory efficient checksumming for large files, fast copying support for large files, and supplemental updating of asset bundles already existing on the archive.

Developed by Factorial for Wingnut Films, Wingnut TV brings film review to the iPad in a powerful and elegant interface. Specifically designed for the requirements of film directors, Wingnut TV uses Factorial’s ClipTouch Server lightweight asset management platform to curate and manage the content presented inside the app, delivered with enterprise-class security.

Factorial has worked with the Malaghan Institute for more than five years, and deployed a new StorNext Pro Foundation clustered storage solution in 2015 — consolidating all SAN, NAS, VM, compute, and backup storage onto a single high-availability and scalable platform.

Factorial designed and commissioned a system based on StorNext comprising 840 Terabytes of disk storage, 1.6 Petabytes of near-line LTO-9 storage, and unlimited off-site archive storage hosting all of Māori Television’s digital media assets.

Factorial has unified multiple workflows using ClipTouch Server for Media Asset Management, and custom integration platform called Te Hono — based on NodeJS. This system integrates ingest, QC, edit, subtitling, export for playout, export for online cloud delivery, archive and restore — all from a single integrated UI. A Factorial ArchiveFS Appliance provides StorNext archive integration for Grass Valley STRATUS.

Factorial has architected and commissioned shared storage and archive infrastructure based on Quantum StorNext and Scalar Libraries to host all of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's digital media assets.

Online storage comprises 3.6 Petabytes of high availability disk systems capable of more than 15 Gigabytes per second of throughput — accessible simultaneously via Fibre Channel, IP, and NAS. Archive storage comprises more than 40 Petabytes of near-line LTO-9 archive capable of real-world throughputs of up to 160 Terabytes per day. ActiveVault secures the primary copy of LTO media by storing it air-gapped from the network.

The solution was commissioned in early 2022, and as of April 2024 has already processed and archived 25 Petabytes of data.

Factorial has developed Te Wairoro — a bespoke web portal to streamline physical asset management and workflow tasks for both users and integrating connected systems — including ClipTouch Server Media Asset Management and Nekehia validation and automation.

Factorial supports near-line and off-site archive storage for all of TAB Trackside’s digital video and radio assets. Factorial has integrated the New Zealand Racing Board’s StorNext Archive directly with Grass Valley STRATUS News and Production Management with an ArchiveFS appliance managing more than 250TB of digital assets.

A multi-year partnership with Park Road has been founded on making technology choices that empower the creative processes involved in film post-production, rather than bending creative tools to fit the limits of current technology. The result is a uniquely integrated workflow, software toolset, and storage infrastructure that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

Factorial has architected, delivered, and maintains more than five Petabytes of critical storage and archive infrastructure that allows all systems at Park Road to access media in-place to allow close collaboration across the facility, without the need to check-out data locally.

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Based in New Zealand, The Rebel Fleet provides a wide range of digital workflow services for television and film production crews, including on-location colour correction and quality control, archiving, content delivery, and more.

Factorial has worked with the The Rebel Fleet to engineer high-performance shared storage and new digital workflows to meet the rigorous service demands of their large-scale film projects.

In record time, Factorial deployed a system based on Quantum StorNext and Xcellis hardware to deliver 400TB of ingest capacity and 4K realtime online storage in a uniquely mobile form factor.

The Rebel Fleet have gone on to standardise on StorNext and Xcellis for all their critical projects going forward.

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