Symply Continues to Expand Storage Portfolio

The Symply range now includes USB 4 and Thunderbolt 5 peripherals,  up to 122 TB flash storage, LTO-10 tape drives and upcoming NAS systems, giving media professionals more choice faster connectivity, and flexible high-capacity workflows.

“Our key message is that we are expanding our portfolio because our users are saying they want to stay on the Symply platform,” says Keith Warburton, CEO at high-performance storage specialist Symply.

“We now have anywhere from USB 4 to Thunderbolt 5 peripherals, and flash storage drives that scale from two terabytes up to 122 TB all in a small form factor. We also have our SPARK Shuttle RAID models and we're bringing in a range of connectivity with docks and Thunderbolt 5-to-Ethernet adapters.”

With AXON, announced at NAB, users can achieve high-speed 10Gb and 25Gb Ethernet connectivity via USB 4 or Thunderbolt 5. AXON offers an affordable USB 4-to-10GbE RJ45 adapter as a tiny peripheral, while AXON XT offers enterprise-level 10GbE and 25GbE, 100W charging, and two ports for peripheral device connection. 

“Most of these requests are end user generated.”

In this spirit Symply has added an LTO-10 upgrade to its SymplyPro Tape Portfolio.

“LTO-10 was a firebreak from the rest of the LTO generations so it's not backward compatible with LTO-9. The LTO Consortium believes people now just want maximum capacity on a tape (LTO-10 enables a massive increase in capacity, reaching up to 30TB uncompressed and 75TB compressed per cartridge - Ed)."

“They're not really concerned about going back to another generation just to have a whole new drive. So, the new drives are 30TB native which is good enough for putting an entire day’s shoot on one tape. We’ve then made those into a desktop form factor so it can be transported to location.”

Symply’s WORKSPACE “a SAN in a box with a handle” is for small workgroups or productions on location. This storage solutions can be configured as spinning discs or NVMe or a mix for the best of both worlds and supports 10GbE, 25GbE, or 100GbE connectivity.

Customers are also telling Warburton that they really want to move away from expensive NAS systems. Consequently, coming in the coming months and after two years of development, there will be a Symply-branded NAS.

“It's kind of nice that end users are coming to us and saying: ‘We look at what you do—can you do this?’”