The Atom

File and object storage for Media Workflows. One system.

The Atom is a turnkey storage platform for Media workflows; designed, delivered and supported so you can just use it.

10,000+Ceph deployments worldwide, including CERN
24×7Monitoring and support by storage engineers
4-hourContractual software SLA, NBD hardware swap
0Proprietary formats, licences or locked exit doors

The product

Meet The Atom.

File and object storage for media workflows, delivered as a single, fully managed system — built on Ceph and standard Dell hardware, designed around your workflow and supported by one team.

Enterprise storage has become expensive, complex and restrictive. The Atom is our answer: no proprietary hardware, no proprietary software licences, no forced refresh cycles — a supported product with the economics and openness of open source.

Turnkey means turnkey

  • Designed around your workflow — capacity from ~100 TB to multiple petabytes.
  • Hardware validated, built and integrated by us; owned by you.
  • 24×7 monitoring — we usually see problems before you do.
  • Upgrades planned, tested and performed by our engineers.
  • The Custom Solution Management Interface makes servicing and monitoring the solution a breeze.
  • One number to call. One team owns the outcome, end to end.

One platform, three ways in

File. Object. Block.

Same cluster, same team, standard protocols — pick the access your workflow speaks.

File storage

High-performance shared file storage for editing, finishing and shared media workspaces — over SMB and NFS with full POSIX support, accelerated by NVMe.

File use cases

Object storage

Standards-compliant S3 for archive, content libraries, MAM integration, cloud workflows and AI pipelines — millions of objects, open formats.

Object use cases

Block storage

Resilient block volumes for the systems around your content: virtualisation, databases and playout infrastructure on the same platform.

Block use cases

Under the hood

Reliable by architecture, not by promise.

Data is stored in multiple copies or erasure-coded across the cluster. When a drive or server fails, The Atom rebuilds automatically and carries on. Hardware failure is an expected event, not an emergency.

The Atom platform architecture: media workflows connect over standard protocols to a self-healing Ceph cluster on Dell hardware, managed 24×7 by 33Mega.MEDIA WORKFLOWSEdit suitesAvid, Premiere, ResolveAsset managementMAM / PAM / DAMAutomationTranscode, QC, deliveryCloud & AIDistribution, ML pipelinesInfrastructureVMs, databases, playoutSTANDARD PROTOCOLSSMB / NFSPOSIX accessS3RBDTHE ATOM · CEPH CLUSTERNode 1 · Dell serverNVMe cache · HDD capacityNode 2 · Dell serverNVMe cache · HDD capacityNode 3 · Dell serverNVMe cache · HDD capacityNode N — scale without disruptionData protectionReplication or erasure codingSelf-healing on failureMANAGED BY 33MEGA24×7monitoringManagedupgrades4-hoursoftware SLANBDhardware swap
The Atom: one namespace, standard protocols, self-healing Ceph cluster on standard Dell hardware — monitored and managed around the clock.

Custom Management Interface, makes handling Ceph a breeze.

Our custom management interface makes handling the Ceph cluster a breeze. Need to upgrade? Need to see where a hardware error lies? Need to profile performance? Everything is available at a touch of a button. Of course — you may never want to see any of this, leaving the cluster management to our engineers, or you may wish to hook event notifications into your monitoring systems. Everything is possible.

“We spent decades designing and supporting storage for broadcasters, post facilities, sports organisations and archives. The Atom expects large files, millions of objects and high-throughput editing — because those are the environments we came from.”

— Jonathan Morgan & Peter Watling, founders

Built for media

By media people, for media people.

Editing, archive, content management, cloud integration and AI workloads run against the same platform, under one namespace. AI, backup and general enterprise workloads run well on The Atom; media is who it was built for.

And if you ever leave us? Your hardware is yours. Your data sits in open formats, served over standard protocols. Off-boarding is documented, not discovered. Read the exit promise →

Beyond storage

AI Consultancy

The same senior team helps organisations put AI to work: strategy, agentic automation, digital transformation, technology review and fractional CTO support.

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Practical, not hype

The last thing a business needs is AI slop and more screen time. What it needs is trusted, often invisible technology that removes legwork so people can focus on the work that matters. That is the standard we hold our consultancy to — and our storage.

Talk to a media workflow specialist, not a sales script.

Tell us about your workflow — capacity, performance, growth — and we will design an Atom around it. No obligation, no jargon, no lock-in.