OpenDrives Solves
Evolving Data and Workflow Challenges
At OpenDrives, we take a different approach to solving evolving data and workflow challenges. Most technology providers claim to be experts in the industries in which their products are used, but are they really industry experts? Others claim they can solve use-case specific problems, but neither approach really works. Workflows are unique after all; how can one claim to solve industry or use-case specific challenges when everyone has different workflows?
Born in the Media & Entertainment industry, we built our expertise solving demanding real-world data challenges: massive video files, distributed collaboration, and zero tolerance for latency. Through this work, we realized that no single provider can solve every data and workflow challenge alone. We balance product innovation with customer centricity, and with the help of specialized channel partners, we deliver tailored solutions that make us true workflow enablement providers.
How do we define data challenges?
Challenges can look different in every industry, but they share an underlying pattern: inefficiency, fragmentation, and missed opportunities.
- Workflow challenges occur when applications, tools, and processes don’t connect smoothly, slowing down collaboration, creating silos, and limiting productivity.
- Data challenges emerge when organizations can’t efficiently access, manage, protect, or share data—whether across on-premises or cloud environments.
Challenges don’t happen in isolation, they emerge at every stage of the data lifecycle. So unlike other technology providers that focus on narrow use cases or industries and verticals, OpenDrives’ products are designed to solve workflow and data challenges across all lifecycle stages.
Creation & Ingestion
Bring data in seamlessly, whether from applications, devices, or distributed teams.
Storage & Performance
High-bandwidth, low-latency performance at scale—built on our M&E heritage.
Orchestration & Unification
Eliminate fragmentation by connecting workflows and making data accessible to the right applications.
Protection & Retention
Back up, recover, and retain data reliably, reducing risk and ensuring business continuity.
Consumption & Operations
Enable your teams to use data efficiently, powering your workflows and daily operations.
Governance & Compliance
Control access, ensure security, and maintain compliance without slowing down performance.
No matter where your pain points reside, finding your data, accessing it quickly, orchestrating across environments, or retaining data securely, OpenDrives products are designed to solve them. They do so without disrupting how your workflows already run, so you can continue to use what already works for you and do things the way you prefer.
How do we define data challenges?
At OpenDrives, everything starts with the customer. We take a customer-centric approach to solving data and workflow challenges that cut across industries. Workflows are as varied as the organizations they serve, and we build products that address those challenges head-on—products that span categories and perform more than just one function. We don’t pretend to be experts in your industry, instead we focus on how you want to use your data and ensure that it’s available when and where it’s needed.
With OpenDrives you gain a partner focused on enabling your workflows to run efficiently, reliably, and without compromise. We deliver evolving collaboration and products that adapt with you. For some organizations, that means bringing resources to the applications you already use. For others, it means bringing data closer to your applications. By taking a different approach to ever-evolving data and workflow challenges, OpenDrives ensures your organization gains solutions that truly fit and grow with your needs.
Your challenges. Solved.
Three products that solve your data and workflow challenges
Flagship Data Storage and Management Platform (NAS)
Atlas is a high-performance data storage and management platform that supports high-bandwidth, low-latency workflows across distributed teams. Use Atlas when you need centralized, shared storage that integrates seamlessly with existing applications and offers flexibility in your choice of hardware.
Cloud-Native Data Services Platform
Astraeus is a scale-out, cloud-native data services platform that unifies data, orchestrates workflows, and manages applications across dynamic environments: on-premises, cloud, or hybrid. Choose Astraeus when you need to break down data silos, modernize architecture with cloud-native capabilities, and prepare for emerging, resource-intensive workloads like AI and edge computing.
Managed Public Cloud Services
Atlas Cloud Plus extends the performance and reliability of Atlas into the public cloud with fully managed services that virtualize storage for workload portability. Use Atlas Cloud Plus when you want high-performance cloud workflows without managing the complexity of cloud architecture, and when you need seamless mobility.
What industry use cases can OpenDrives’ products address?
OpenDrives was built in the Media & Entertainment industry, where some of the most complex, time-sensitive, and resource-intensive workflows demand absolute reliability and performance. That experience gives us unmatched expertise in designing products that simplify even the most complicated workflows, by making data available when you need it most.
OpenDrives products are uniquely designed to address the following M&E use cases:
Media & Entertainment Industry
M&E & Media-Adjacent Verticals
- Production
- Post-Production
- Corporate Video
- House of Worship
- Education
- Professional Sports
- Collegiate Sports
- Electronic Sports & Gaming
- Advertising
- Experiential (Venues/Events)
- Video Surveillance
- Imaging
Use Cases
- Editorial
- Live Events/Streaming/Internet
- Video (OTT)
- Theatrical
- Broadcast: Ingest, Growing File, Live Capture, Transcode
- Remote Production (REMI)
- Visual Effects: 3D, Animation, VFX, Virtual
- Color: Color Grading, Color Correction, Manipulation
- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
- Professional Audio/Sound
Take a look at other industries where OpenDrives products create value across diverse workflows and use cases (not an exhaustive list):
Architecture, Engineering, Construction Verticals
- Utilities
- Transportation
- Construction
- Structural
- Architectural
- Environmental
- Water
- Geotechnical
- Civil (General)
Other Industries
- Government
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Healthcare & Medical Imaging
- Financial Services
- Telecommunications
Workflows
Use Case
- Backup & Archiving
- Data Retention
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Predictive Maintenance
- Capacity Planning
- Data Management
- Data Repatriation
- Resource Optimization
- Machine Learning
- Digital Transformation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Content Storage and Management
- File-Based Storage and Sharing
- Data Governance and Sovereignty
- Data Orchestration
- Cloud-Native Applications
- Kubernetes Containerization
- Cloud Native
- Application Development & Customization
- Application Deployment
- Database management
- Containers
- Microservices Support
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Repatriation
- Cloud Security
- Cloud-Based storage
- Cloud Backup and Recovery
- Cloud Cost Management
- Multi-Cloud Expansion
- Hybrid Cloud
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- Multicloud
- Object Storage
- Endpoint Security
- Access Control
- Threat Detection
- IT Security
- Business Continuity
- Information Management
- Data Breach
- Ransomware
- Business Continuity & Resilience
- Data Protection and Backup & Recovery
