OpenDrives, a privately owned US company founded in 2011, provides content supply chain solutions. Employing approximately 80 people, the company specializes in shared media storage designed for high-resolution video and imaging workflows, aiming to improve the performance of applications such as Adobe Premiere, Foundry's Nuke, and Blackmagic Davinci Resolve. In 2023, the company's revenue was less than $10 million.
OpenDrives announced plans to showcase the Atlas platform and business model at the NAB 2025 show. Atlas, described as a next-generation data storage solution, offers efficiency, performance, and scalability through a software-defined storage platform using third-party hardware. Later, OpenDrives released Atlas software version 2.9, which includes Atlas Professional, a mid-tier feature bundle intended to provide high-performance storage and enterprise-scale data management to various media organizations. This bundle offers unlimited capacity licensing. OpenDrives also detailed the next evolution of its Empower Partner Program, focusing on stronger, collaborative relationships with partners. The company's file system uses a checksum-based system to maintain data integrity and consistent performance by correcting corrupted blocks.
OpenDrives's customers primarily consist of ad measurement and verification, production and post production and broadcast television and radio companies. Examples of OpenDrives's customers include Epic Games, NBCUniversal and Spotify.