DigiNovations Senior Editor Mike Chapman gave a presentation at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Post Production World Conference in Las Vegas about shared storage for post-production facilities this past April.  Some 200 attendees listened as Chapman described the advantages and potential pitfalls of integrating shared storage solutions into a post production workflow.

DigiNovations has implemented a “storage area network” (SAN) within its Concord-based production studios, hooking together eight post-production workstations on a high-speed optical fiber network to a central storage array with more than 20 terabytes of storage.  This enables any post-production workstation within DigiNovations to access production project files with performance comparable to storage on a local hard disk, and allows multiple editors to collaborate on a single project.

Chapman was a beta-tester for shared storage at leading companies such as Avid, Pinnacle and Facilis before joining DigiNovations in 2006.