Ngenea

Keep media workflows moving across production, cloud, and archive
As media environments grow more complex, manual data movement slows production, adds cost, and creates friction. Ngenea automates how content moves across your storage environment so teams can focus on the work, not the infrastructure.
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Storage tiers only work when content can move between them

Media teams rely on multiple applications and storage layers to keep projects moving. But when moving content depends on manual recalls, copies, scripts, or IT requests, every tier adds friction instead of flexibility.
Ngenea solves this by automatically moving content between applications and storage layers based on policies, activity, location, and workflow needs. Active media stays close to production. Inactive content moves to more cost-effective storage. 

Archived assets remain visible, searchable, and accessible when teams need them again.

Why Ngenea

Ngenea is a data orchestration platform built for media workflows that span multiple locations and storage tiers. It creates a single global namespace across file, object, cloud, tape, and archive storage, giving teams one consistent view of content no matter where it lives.

Unlike basic file transfer tools or disconnected storage systems, Ngenea automates how content moves through the workflow. Data can be tiered, recalled, cached, or moved based on policies, activity, and workflow requirements, helping teams reduce manual effort, improve access, and make better use of every storage tier. 

For organizations using Pixstor, Ngenea connects directly with Pixitmedia's high-performance shared storage platform to deliver intelligent orchestration across your full storage environment.

Active content stays close to the applications that need it, inactive content moves to lower-cost tiers, and archived assets remain searchable and ready to reuse.

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Where Ngenea fits in media workflows

Automated tiering between applications and storage

Move content automatically across high-performance storage, object storage, cloud, tape, and archive based on policies you set. Active media stays where it needs to be, everything else moves without manual intervention.  

Archive and content reuse

Move inactive content to object storage or tape without losing access to it. Archived assets stay visible, searchable, and easy to recall, helping teams treat older content as a usable library rather than a storage burden. 

Multi-site workflows

Give teams and applications a consistent view of content across facilities and locations. A single namespace reduces duplicate files, disconnected systems, and uncertainty about where content lives. 

Cloud burst and render scaling

Use cloud compute when demand spikes without adding complexity to data movement. Ngenea sends only the data needed, brings results back automatically, and cleans up temporary files by policy to keep cloud and transfer costs under control. 

Storage consolidation

Bring fragmented storage environments together without disrupting live workflows. File, object, cloud, tape, and third-party NAS environments can stay in place while operating as one connected environment. 

Content delivery

Send files to partners, remote teams, and external workflows in a controlled, trackable way. Policy-based movement follows simple rules, reducing manual coordination, unnecessary copies, and delivery uncertainty. 

Ngenea is already helping media teams across broadcast, post-production, animation, and VFX manage content at scale. Talk to us about how it could fit your environment. 

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What Ngenea helps you do

  • Data access and visibility: A single global namespace gives teams a consistent view of content across all storage tiers. Metadata indexing and search make it easy to find and access assets, no matter where they are stored.
  • Automated tiering and movement: Policy-driven rules move content between tiers automatically based on age, size, access, activity, or location. Active media stays close to production. Inactive content moves to lower-cost tiers without manual intervention.
  • Cost control: Intelligent caching helps minimize unnecessary data transfer and egress costs. Temporary files can be cleaned up automatically, while capacity analysis tools help teams plan tiering and manage growth more efficiently.
  • Protection and resilience: Encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging for recall, movement, and access events, and policy-driven sync and recall support enterprise-scale protection and business continuity.
  • Workflow automation: Event-driven actions and workflow chaining help automate pipeline steps across rendering, archive, and delivery workflows.

"We now have an elegant, cost-effective way to share and work together on files across sites and time-zones, all without the headache and complexity of a global patchwork."

John Brady
VP Production Technology, Brown Bag Films

Deployment and integration

Ngenea supports on-prem, hybrid, cloud, and edge deployments. It connects to file, object, cloud, tape, third-party NAS, and S3-compatible cloud storage, helping media teams unify distributed environments without replacing the infrastructure they already use. 

It is designed to fit into existing media environments and extend the workflows teams already rely on. 

Not sure which deployment fits your environment? Our team can help you work through the options.

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Works with the tools you already use

Ngenea integrates with AWS Deadline Cloud, Projective Strawberry, OpenCue, Autodesk Flow, and many more. Python and REST API support make it easier to connect to custom pipelines and existing production workflows. 

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A complete data infrastructure for media

Ngenea is part of a broader portfolio designed for the demands of media and entertainment.
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Pixstor provides high-performance shared storage for demanding media workflows, from ingest through finishing.  

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Object Matrix brings media-aware object storage and archive workflows, making it easier to protect, manage, and access archive content. 

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Swarm provides scalable object storage for organisations building content repositories and active archive environments. 

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Support that doesn’t sleep

24x7 support for global media operations is available by web portal, email, and phone, with severity-based response targets and a global follow-the-sun support model. Wherever your team is working, help is available. 

Ready to see what Ngenea can do?

If data movement is creating friction in your workflows, let's talk. Our team will work through your environment, scale, and requirements to show you exactly how Ngenea can help. 

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