SYMPLY WORKSPACE XE DESKTOP

The ease of use of NAS with the advantages of SAN –Don’t settle for unpredictable NAS performance. The WORKSPACE XE family of collaborative storage solutions deliver true high performance over 10Gb, 25Gb or 100Gb Ethernet. 

Available in flexible all HDD, hybrid, or all flash RAID-protected configurations in desktop and 4RU rack-mounted form factors.  WORKSPACE XE solutions are simple to deploy, easy to manage, and all backed up by industry-leading technical support. 

Each WORKSPACE XE enables cross-platform file system sharing for high-performance workflows, and provides project and user management as standard, allowing for a fast collaborative experience for all your favourite NLE, DAW, and VFX apps. 

WORKSPACE XE can also extend effortlessly into SymplyNEBULA, or any other leading public cloud storage provider, making it even easier to protect, share, and manage your content.

Available in 3 form factors to meet even the most demanding creative workflows. 

Features and Benefits

• Available with all HDD, all Flash or Hybrid storage configurations
• Ethernet driver optimised for TCP/IP protocol for large block data transfers
• Includes Project and User management as standard 
• Supports 10GbE, 25GbE, or 100GbE connectivity
• Seamless integration with SymplyNEBULA (and other Public Clouds)
• Hybrid workflows for multi-site collaboration
• Native integration for Active Directory 
• Support SMB and NFS shares
• Automatic file system defragmentation and image sequence alignment
• Optional MAM upgrade to support

• Secure Remote and local file ingest
• Transcoding, logging, and advanced search
• Secure content sharing
• Browser-based editing
• Export to AAF and XML of media, clips or projects 

SPECIFICATIONS

Setup Managment

SymplyWORKSPACE XE solutions are delivered ready to go with RAID protection enabled, file system configured, and extensively tested. It’s designed to be ready to use in under ten minutes from unboxing to powering on. No in-depth knowledge of Ethernet networking is required: simply log into the management console, install the driver for your operating system, and use our connection app (macOS, Windows, and Linux) to connect to the shared volume. And you’re done. A step-by-step guide is provided via our comprehensive online support portal, but rest assured that technical support is just a phone call away. 

Ongoing management of the WORKSPACE XE is incredibly simple with built-in management tools that maintain the performance of the system, and optional advanced storage management tools that enable you to tier data to free up capacity for current projects.

Performance

All the SymplyWORKSPACE XE family features high-performance Intel Xeon processor(s) and the latest hybrid tri-mode RAID engine. They are also designed specifically for creative professionals to allow them to get the job done without compromising HD, 4K and 8K workflows. Choose from all-HDD systems for performant high-capacity storage, all-NVMe for ultra high-performance RAW workflows, or a combination of HDD and NVMe for the best of both worlds. 

Content Protection

With options for RAID 5 or RAID 6 to ensure data protection, hot-swap disk modules, enterprise-grade hard drives and Flash drives, optional hot-swappable redundant SSD for the OS and software apps, WORKSPACE XE is highly resilient – just as you would expect from a Symply product.

Advanced Collaboration

On top of providing an efficient and reliable shared storage platform, the Workspace XE also offers advanced project workflow management tools as standard that make it easy to create dedicated workspaces for jobs and assign them to users and teams to control access. Ideal for managing small to medium-sized collaborative teams as well as seamless integration to Active Directory. 

Need more advanced content management?… Not a problem all the Workspace XE solutions have the option for adding in an advanced content management solution for file ingest, transcoding, and collaborative video editing.  From a single and unified Web interface you can

• Manage your media content. 
• Provide multisite access for full content management, transcoding and editing.
• Manage your content and associated metadata in and out of your premises from a single web user interfaces 

Workspace XE provides advanced tools to handle ingest, metadata, logging, search, view, edit, and transcoding of media assets. It has been developed from the ground up as an open architecture to meet the needs of broadcasters and video content producers.

Data Protection & Hybrid Workflows

WORKSPACE XE offers advanced storage management solutions to optimise your resources

• Extend the WORKSPACE XE file system into any public cloud including SymplyNEBULA
• Multi-site sync between WORKSPACE XE systems via a public cloud cache
• Manage data backups and archives to disk, tape, or cloud
• Quick disaster recovery
• Ransomware protection

WORKSPACE XE vs NAS

WORKSPACE XE uses an IP SAN protocol for more efficient block-level connectivity over high-speed Ethernet LAN networks or direct connection from the WORKSPACE XE to hosts, made possible by extensive connectivity on the appliance. By controlling and optimising both ends of the protocol WORKSPACE XE can provide a faster and more reliable connection, utilizing more of the available Ethernet bandwidth without the latency usually associated with NAS systems. 

In addition to providing efficient, reliable, and low latency connectivity to cross-platform clients the shared storage from the WORKSPACE XE is also presented to clients as a locally attached device versus a network share, bringing better compatibility to many creative applications that have a preference to work with locally attached devices.