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Scalable, Sustainable Storage for Media & Entertainment

ScoutAM helps media and entertainment organizations safeguard their most valuable assets—creative work, news coverage, and cultural heritage—while delivering the performance needed for today’s demanding workflows. From accelerating production to preserving stories that shape our culture, ScoutAM ensures your data is protected, accessible, and ready for the future.

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Seamless Data Management for Creative Industries

Media and entertainment organizations generate massive amounts of data that must be efficiently managed, accessed, and preserved. ScoutAM provides high-performance, scalable storage solutions tailored for VFX and post-production, news and journalism, and media archives. Whether supporting demanding rendering workflows, ensuring quick access to vast news archives, or preserving historical media for future generations, ScoutAM delivers seamless data management, cost efficiency, and long-term reliability. Trusted by leading studios and archival projects, ScoutAM empowers media professionals to focus on creativity and storytelling—without storage limitations.

Solving the Storage Challenges of Modern Media

High
Storage Costs

Storing large media libraries on expensive primary storage is unsustainable as data volumes grow. ScoutAM reduces costs with automated data tiering across disk, cloud, and tape, ensuring cost-effective storage while maintaining easy accessibility.

Explosive
Data Growth

High-resolution content and VFX rendering generate massive amounts of data, quickly straining storage capacity. ScoutAM scales effortlessly to manage petabytes of data while optimizing costs with intelligent tiering, ensuring production workflows remain smooth and efficient.

Slow Access to Archived Content

Legacy storage systems make retrieving archived media slow and inefficient, causing production delays. ScoutAM enables fast, seamless access with metadata-driven search and intelligent caching, keeping assets readily available when needed.

Long-Term Media Preservation

Historical media must be protected from degradation, corruption, and format obsolescence to ensure future accessibility. ScoutAM safeguards valuable assets with long-term, scalable storage designed for digital preservation and data integrity.

Key Benefits

Seamless Data Tiering & Cost Optimization

With intelligent tiering, ScoutAM moves data seamlessly between high-performance disk, object storage, and tape, optimizing storage costs while maintaining accessibility. By archiving cold data without compromising instant retrieval, media organizations can reduce expenses without impacting production efficiency. Its efficient use of tape delivers a lower carbon footprint than any other storage technology.

Long-Term Digital Preservation

Built for 100+ year data retention strategies, ScoutAM ensures the integrity and authenticity of archives while offering a scalable, reliable solution for preserving valuable media assets. Trusted by global institutions for digital heritage protection, ScoutAM’s open architecture overcomes the challenges of proprietary formats and vendor lock-in, making it a compelling choice for media companies seeking long-term preservation without the risk of technological constraints.

Workflow Integration & Automation

Designed with an API-driven architecture, ScoutAM can integrate seamlessly with existing systems and production tools. Automated data movement and archival processes minimize manual intervention and operational overhead, enabling media teams to focus on content creation rather than storage management.

Ultimate Disaster Recovery

With robust error handling and recovery, ScoutAM safeguards content integrity and ensures uninterrupted access—even during hardware failures or system issues. Its high-availability architecture minimizes downtime, supporting the always-on demands of media production, post-production, and distribution workflows.

Comprehensive and Personalized Support

ScoutAM is backed by comprehensive, personalized support tailored to mission-critical media operations. Users benefit from phenomenal direct access to knowledgeable support teams and a responsive approach to feature requests, ensuring the system evolves with their needs. Versity’s favorable unlimited capacity licensing and zero lock-in model further reduce operational risk and cost. With seamless integration into existing workflows and compatibility with tools like Globus, S3, NFS, and Samba, ScoutAM delivers robust, user-friendly access backed by a support experience media organizations can rely on.

Optimized for Creatives, Engineered for Scale

ScoutAM empowers media professionals to focus on creativity and storytelling by removing the barriers of complex, costly storage management. With automated data tiering, high-speed access, and seamless integration into existing workflows, ScoutAM ensures that creative teams spend less time managing assets and more time producing exceptional content. Whether working on visual effects, editing, or large-scale production archives, users can trust that their data is secure, organized, and instantly available—freeing them to concentrate on what they do best: creating powerful stories.

Enterprise-Grade Security for High-Value Media Archives

Protecting valuable media assets is a top priority in an industry where content carries immense commercial value. ScoutAM is built with strong access controls, audit logging, and protocol-level security to safeguard archives from unauthorized access. Its fine-grained permissions and authentication mechanisms ensure that only the right users can access or manage sensitive content. Whether protecting unreleased footage, licensed material, or historical media archives, ScoutAM provides the security and accountability media organizations need to maintain trust, compliance, and control over their most important digital assets.

Future-Ready Storage Without Compromise

Built on a robust open-source foundation—including an open-source S3 gateway that enables seamless, standards-based data access—ScoutAM is designed to give media organizations full control over their storage infrastructure. By avoiding proprietary formats and restrictive ecosystems, it eliminates vendor lock-in and supports a wide range of cross-platform environments. ScoutAM is hardware, cloud, media format, and primary filesystem agnostic, making it a flexible, future-ready solution that integrates easily into existing workflows.

Scalable, Sustainable, and Cost-Effective Media Storage

ScoutAM is built to support petabyte-scale growth, empowering media organizations to manage massive volumes of content without compromising performance. Optimized for high-speed ingest and retrieval, it integrates seamlessly into VFX pipelines, production workflows, and large-scale media archives, ensuring creative teams stay focused on storytelling, not storage constraints.

With intelligent data tiering, ScoutAM seamlessly moves content between high-performance disk, object storage, and tape, optimizing storage costs while maintaining fast accessibility. Rather than relying on costly primary storage for all assets, organizations can check assets in and out of ScoutAM, keeping only active projects on expensive disk while archiving inactive data efficiently. Many studios leverage tape libraries in constant motion, cycling data in and out to control costs while ensuring critical files remain available when needed. Without Versity’s scalable archival storage, maintaining the vast amount of media data required for high-end productions would be financially unsustainable.

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Manage, Preserve, and Scale Your Media

Special Effects and
Post Production

VFX and post-production teams need fast, efficient storage solutions to handle massive data sets generated during rendering and editing. ScoutAM ensures seamless data management, keeping production pipelines running smoothly while optimizing storage costs.

News
and Journalism

News and journalism organizations need secure, searchable storage for vast archives of video, interviews, and reports. Hybrid cloud and on-prem solutions ensure long-term preservation and quick access to media assets.

Media Archives
and Preservation

Digital preservation initiatives depend on reliable long-term storage to safeguard historical and culturally significant media. With robust data integrity and scalability, ScoutAM helps protect valuable assets for future generations.

Seamless Integration with Backup Workflows

Versity’s archival storage functions as a direct drop-in solution for backup applications like NetBackup, Commvault, and Veeam, requiring no modifications to existing workflows. By acting as a high-performance target for backup data, Versity helps media and entertainment companies efficiently manage massive archives, optimize tape utilization, and ensure fast, reliable access to stored content. Leveraging both on-premises object storage and tape, Versity enables automatic tiering of backup data, keeping frequently accessed metadata on high-speed object storage while writing large media files to tape for long-term retention. This intelligent data placement ensures quick retrieval for post-production workflows, compliance audits, or historical content restoration while maximizing storage efficiency and reducing costs.

Leading media organizations have significantly reduced tape drive usage and improved backup and restore performance with Versity, optimizing data handling without requiring changes to existing backup software. By directing backup writes to a Versity-managed mount point, studios and archives accelerate media retrieval, streamline data retention, and enhance overall storage efficiency. With seamless integration into existing production and archive workflows, Versity enables content creators to focus on storytelling while ensuring long-term data protection.

By integrating Versity’s intelligent hybrid storage solutions, financial institutions can significantly enhance backup efficiency, reduce storage costs, and improve compliance readiness—all while continuing to use their preferred backup software.

Future-Proof Your Media Storage

As media and entertainment companies continue to generate massive volumes of data, having a scalable, cost-effective, and high-performance storage solution is more critical than ever. ScoutAM empowers VFX studios, broadcasters, news organizations, and digital archives with seamless data management, intelligent tiering, and long-term preservation, ensuring creative teams can focus on storytelling without storage limitations. Whether optimizing production workflows, reducing costs, or safeguarding historical media, ScoutAM provides the reliability and efficiency needed to support the industry’s evolving demands.

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Connect with Versity today to find out how we can tailor a solution to keep your organization’s data safe and accessible so you can focus on storyteling.

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