The Atom · Block
Block storage for everything around the content.
A media facility is more than media files: virtual machines, databases, asset-management back ends, playout and automation systems all need storage too. The Atom serves them resilient block volumes from the same cluster your content lives on.
Where it fits
One platform for the whole machine room.
Most facilities end up with a small zoo of storage: a NAS for files, an archive for content, and a separate SAN just to keep the VMs and databases happy. Three systems, three support contracts, three things to go wrong at 2am.
The Atom collapses that zoo. Its block service provides resilient virtual disks for hypervisors and databases from the same self-healing cluster — one platform, one team, one SLA covering the lot.
Typical block use cases
- Virtual machine storage for VMware, Proxmox and KVM environments.
- Databases behind MAM, traffic, scheduling and automation systems.
- Playout, ingest and channel-in-a-box infrastructure.
- Kubernetes persistent volumes for containerised media services.
- Boot and system volumes consolidated off ageing SANs.
How it flows
Virtual disks, physically dependable.
Fewer vendors, fewer 2am arguments
When the VM store, the file share and the archive are one platform, there is no finger-pointing between suppliers — a failure anywhere is ours to fix, end to end, with a four-hour software SLA and next-business-day hardware replacement behind it.
Same guarantees
Infrastructure-grade, media-tested.
- Volumes survive drive and node failure by design.
- Snapshots and clones for fast recovery and test environments.
- Performance sized to the job with NVMe acceleration.
- Scales alongside your file and object capacity — no separate island.
One cluster for content and infrastructure.
Tell us what runs in your machine room and we'll show you what consolidating onto The Atom looks like — including what it saves.