As broadcasters and video professionals embrace a tapeless workflow, the need for high-performance networking and storage systems has come to the forefront. This presentation will discuss the limitations of traditional SAN and NAS architectures, and explore a new approach—grid storage—which removes bottlenecks, provides fast access to large media files and eases management burdens. The presenter will describe and explain what a grid storage (or clustered storage) system is and how it works, and also discuss why the attributes of a distributed grid storage system are ideally suited for the demands of working with large digital media files and how production and broadcast facilities can use such a system as an enterprise-wide storage platform.