Silicon Graphics has over 20 years of experience in the entertainment market. Today, SGI focuses on providing our customers in the entertainment and media industries with products and integrated solutions that help them attain the highest image quality, interactive performance and more productivity through collaborative management of content throughout their workflow. Whether creating episodic television, television advertising or special effects and animation SGI solutions add value to the production pipeline.

Our server and storage products are designed to enhance the productivity of the creative, technical and management staff. SGI scalable server and storage platforms provide high-speed networking of 2K and 4K film resolution files or multiple HD streams, eliminating major bottlenecks in the mastering process. SGI content management solutions for production and archive, interface with leading editing, finishing, effects and rendering systems to achieve greater productivity in an open truly heterogeneous shared file system environment. SGI system solutions provide:

• Shared, fast access to content files throughout the production workflow
• Greater productivity and more timely delivery of higher-quality projects
• The ability to manage more projects simultaneously, securely and efficiently
• The freedom to chose best-of-breed hardware platforms and software applications and still derive benefit from SGI's content management solutions for production and archive

For additional information:

• SGI Infinite Storage Solutions for Media (PDF 674K)
• Higher Profitability and Productivity in DI Workflows: SGI and DataFrameworks™ Provide the Data Management Foundation for Digital Intermediate Workflow (PDF 507K)
• SGI Drives Faster Parallel Processing for HD, 2K, 4K for Deliverables: Ascent Media Group Runs Speeedy and Secure with SGI Storage, Servers, and Networking (PDF 281K)
• Miami HEAT Broadcast Engineering Magazine "Systems Design Showcase" (PDF 1.8M)
  Authored by SGI's Bill Buhro, this article describes the installation of an 8TB SGI InfiniteStorage NAS system to create a centralized shared environment for encoders, asset management software, Avid nonlinear editors, read-ony graphics workstations and older storage. The production department for the Miami HEAT NBA team creates content on the SGI NAS system approximately 16 hours a day, in season, for many outlets, including pre-game shows, half-time shows and withing the on-air broadcast.