At IBC 2024, GB Labs will officially launch NebulaNAS, unprecedented NAS-like cloud storage that unifies all media production data in a central hub, enabling seamless collaboration from any corner of the globe. Along with NebulaNAS, GB Labs will highlight select products from the company’s broad portfolio of trusted intelligent media storage solutions.

IBC 2024 attendees can visit GB Labs, Stand 7.A09a in the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Pavilion to learn all about NebulaNAS, a game-changing new cloud storage solution developed from the ground up for media and production professionals. It provides users with cloud flexibility, on-prem-like performance, global access and collaboration, and enterprise security.

NebulaNAS is a game-changing cloud storage solution from GB Labs. It has been developed from the ground up for media and production professionals. Regardless of location, users will appreciate its NAS-like ease of use. Editors and artists can see files immediately, access data quickly, and collaborate globally as if they were in the same location. Producers will appreciate the detailed analytics and audit reporting maintained by the system. Organizations can even add local storage to provide media acceleration and cache-level support for clusters of users. IT managers will approve of its security and resiliency, including 256-bit AES file encryption, user access controls, file locking, and distributed use of cloud servers, which spreads data across thousands of servers. Due to these features, NebulaNAS provides 11 nines of reliability.

NebulaNAS provides organizations and users with four critical benefits:

  • Global Access and Collaboration: Allows teams to access media files and collaborate on projects from anywhere in the world, making it easy to work on shared projects and files.
  • On-Prem Performance: Delivers high-performance, low latency access to media data, enabling efficient workflows and seamless editing processes.
  • Enterprise-Grade Security: Protects media assets with robust security measures, including 256-bit AES encryption, user access controls, and file locking.
  • Unlimited Scalability: Provides flexible storage capacity that can grow with an organization's needs, ensuring media assets are always readily available.

With NebulaNAS:

  • Media teams can seamlessly collaborate on projects from anywhere in the world.
  • Production teams can access and work on projects with high performance and low latency.
  • Media assets are safe and secure with enterprise-grade security features.
  • Companies can scale storage capacity as needed, ensuring they have enough space to store and manage media assets.

NebulaNAS is transformational for any media company or multisite organization that stores and collaborates on media creation and production management across locations.

GB Labs’ mission is to combine the power of the cloud and on-prem storage with enhancements that drive performance, flexibility, security, and scalability to support the continued requirements of media and entertainment.

The company’s new Space NVMe servers, released earlier this year, are the fastest NAS products in the GB Labs range. They can also be used as an accelerator for cloud-based NebulaNAS, providing customers with dramatic cost savings and significant performance improvements. These pure NVMe versions run at unparalleled speed for ultrahigh-resolution workflows. Based on performance alone, NVMe is almost as fast as RAM, and when used in tandem with NebulaNAS and connected via Server Message Block (SMB), Space NVMe makes it possible to see NebulaNAS as a “local folder.” Files can then be easily pulled from NebulaNAS and automatically cached on a Space server. Once data is stored locally on Space, media companies will benefit from reduced egress from the cloud.