Object Mount, from Storj wins NAB 2025 Product of the Year Award

The 2025 NAB Show brought together over 55,000 industry professionals from 160 countries to explore the latest innovations shaping the future of media and entertainment. From cloud-centric workflows to AI-driven creativity, the message was clear: the future is fast, global, and built for collaboration.

Amid this wave of innovation, Storj is recognized as a change-maker, earning a prestigious NAB Show Product of the Year award for its Object Mount product in the Cloud Computing and Storage category.

“Object Mount delivers a new paradigm for teams around the world to accelerate collaboration and easily leverage high-performance cloud object storage easily and cost-effectively.”— Colby Winegar , CEO, Storj

Why Storj's win matters

This recognition isn’t just about a product—it reflects a larger shift in how the industry solves challenges like remote collaboration, data-intensive workflows, a heightened cybersecurity threat landscape, complex AI/ML workloads, and the rising cost of traditional infrastructure. Object Mount delivers on all fronts, helping teams work faster, smarter, more affordably and sustainably.

“Thanks to Object Mount, we cut cloud edit cycles from weeks to hours, and our team members on different continents now collaborate as fast as those in the same city.”— Post-Production Supervisor, Global Streaming Series

Key trends from NAB 2025

1. Cloud-centric workflowsTeams are embracing cloud-first tools for seamless, remote collaboration. Editing, rendering, and reviewing content no longer requires local servers or painful sync processes—just fast, flexible access to consistently available content in the cloud.

2. AI in post-productionAI-powered tools stole the spotlight—automating tasks, enhancing quality, and accelerating production. But they’re only as good as the data they can access—so fast, consistent access to large datasets is now mission-critical.

3. Creator-centric toolsWhether for indie creators or major studios, tools that support real-time collaboration and frictionless production are in high demand. Flexibility, performance, sustainability and cost-efficiency are non-negotiables.

Object Mount: transforming cloud access for media teams

Edit in the cloud, without compromise

Object Mount makes S3-compatible storage behave like a local drive—no downloads, rehydration, or proxies. Teams can scrub, edit, and render directly in-bucket, even across continents.

“You’re saying the source of truth that editors can work with is the S3 bucket?  That's amazing.”— Executive at a Top 10 production company

Speed that accelerates your workflow

High-resolution media loads instantly. Playback is smooth. Scrubbing happens in real-time. Object Mount removes performance bottlenecks so creativity flows.

“So fast I thought it was a bug.”— Senior engineer at a Top 10 production company

Storage-agnostic and future-proof

Connect to any major cloud provider—from AWS and Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud—or use Storj’s own distributed storage for ultimate flexibility without vendor lock-in or costly replication or migrations.

Built for AIAI and ML teams benefit from seamless access to massive datasets stored in the cloud. Object Mount lets tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch access files as if they were local—accelerating training, inference, and iteration.Paired with GPU on-demand capabilities, Storj also empowers colorists, VFX artists, and rendering workflows with instant access to high-performance compute—right when and where it’s needed.Environmentally SustainableSmarter technology decision-making often represents an organization’s most significant opportunity to reduce carbon impact. Thanks to its efficiency-driven architecture, Object Mount yields serious carbon reduction.

Massive savings, zero compromise

By reducing replication costs and egress fees, teams save up to 90% while improving resilience, security, and speed.

“Object Mount is the fastest POSIX-compliant mount available—secure by design, intuitive to use, and dramatically more cost-effective than anything else on the market.”— John Gleeson, CBDO Storj

Product of the Year is more than recognition—it’s proof that a new paradigm for work with media in the cloud has arrived.

It marks a new paradigm in how media teams create, collaborate, and scale in the cloud.