Workspace Backup provides disaster recovery for Avid ISIS/NEXIS systems, using unique Avid project and workspace data analytics to understand the nature and context of assets held within a workspace and linked assets in other workspaces. With the large volume of data typical in post and broadcast houses, recovery using conventional tools is too slow to enable a restart of production of critical projects within a reasonable time frame. In one customer’s case using traditional disaster recovery methods, there would have been a week’s outage while a large ISIS system was recovered. This has significant adverse business, operational and commercial impact, including missing on-air schedules and contractual deadlines.
Workspace Backup can be used for complete restoration of ISIS/NEXIS workspaces, or you can restore individual projects or bins as required for fast recovery of mission-critical work-in-progress. There’s also a retention period that protects files from accidental deletion from the working storage. Workspace Sync adds to this by providing a complete duplicate of ISIS/NEXIS for immediate failover, enabling production to be recovered to the last sync point within seconds.
Workspace Tools is installed at many leading media enterprises worldwide, using clever workspace analytics to provide a simple – and ultra-reliable – advanced risk mitigation and protection solution for Avid shared storage. Importantly for business owners, Workspace Tools offers disaster recovery that can form part of an ISO 22301:2012-certified business continuity plan.