ELEMENTS shaping the future of storage & media workflow
Media storage specialist ELEMENTS will be showcasing its latest innovations in storage and media workflow technology at IBC 2025, presenting a comprehensive vision for tomorrow’s media workflows and future-ready storage solutions.
Leading its showcase will be GRID, a cutting-edge, software-defined all-NVMe storage appliance designed for the high-performance demands of the media and entertainment industry. Built on the top-tier Ceph distributed storage platform, GRID delivers speed, scalability, and reliability in a compact 2U form factor.
Designed for post production, VFX, broadcast, and content creation, GRID provides a strong foundation for demanding workflows, combining 200Gbit Ethernet connectivity to eliminate bottlenecks in high-resolution editing, rendering, and collaborative processes. When paired with the company’s Media Library, GRID goes beyond storage, giving users the flexibility to efficiently organise, store, retrieve, share, and comment on large volumes of media assets.
The major features and advantages of GRID include unified file and object storage, combining CephFS for scalability with an S3 Gateway for cloud-native workflows. Built-in resilience delivers high availability and data durability through replication, snapshots, erasure coding, and self-healing.
At stand 7.B25, visitors can also check out VALET, a new storage extension service designed to make managing large-scale media projects more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective.
Heiner Lesaar, CTO, ELEMENTS, described, “Think of VALET as your storage attendant. It discreetly syncs active projects to a secondary location, then clears local copies once they’re no longer in use, freeing up high-performance infrastructure without removing access.
“By combining the benefits of fast local storage with the scale and affordability of the cloud, VALET gives distributed teams, growing media libraries, and busy studios a way to cut costs without compromising workflow continuity.”
Also featured at IBC 2025 will be BLINK, ELEMENTS’ native BeeGFS client for Windows and macOS, engineered to unlock the full performance potential of BeeGFS file systems. With true kernel-level integration, BLINK outperforms traditional FUSE-based native clients, delivering exceptional speed, reduced latency, and rock-solid stability for high-performance media workflows, said ELEMENTS.
Paul Patterson, Head of Marketing & Communications, ELEMENTS, added, “This year at IBC, we’re not just diving into the key themes shaping media and entertainment workflows, we’re also offering an exclusive first look at a selection of powerful new features and updates.”Find out more by speaking with the ELEMENTS team at IBC 2025, which is taking place from September 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre.
