INDUSTRY FOCUS BROADCAST/MEDIA
We have a commercial television network customer that wanted a non proprietary IT solution to support its production based applications for Ingest, logging, clipping, editing and playout in real- time.
We selected Quantum’s StorNext File System and Storage Manager because its high performance computing background ensured we could deliver the performance and reliability required for the cross platform broadcast applications as well as enabled content sharing through the provision of a centralised storage pool for all users. Now, for a football match, the editors share the same content to edit highlights, playback goals and create clips of key moments.
The single software solution also provided an archive store allowing the cost effective use of tape libraries – scaling to multi petabytes – for archiving.”
When we think of media and broadcast data there are some well documented examples such as the 3D production of the blockbuster film Avatar, but the unstructured data being produced by applications for satellite imaging, weather and seismic data, Bioscience research and new legal requirements, for example, can be just as large. The three things to think about are shared storage, tiered storage management and content preservation.
Shared storage considerations are the ability to ingest, create/edit,
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Policies can dictate where content is stored and for how long. All this can be an automated to provide an invisible process to the user.
and distribute data using high speed NAS and SAN based file sharing. This should be multi platform and vendor independent.
Tiered storage management should give you the ability to transparently access the primary and secondary disk tiers and tape archives. This should include built-in deduplication where applicable.
Automated data steering and policy based movement ensures that the right data is routed to the right place at the right time. Tiered storage can significantly lower the total cost of ownership.
Content preservation makes sure you have both nearline and archive copies of the data. Implementing a NAS or SAN file system with storage management software can simplify backup and disaster recovery facilities by providing a single solution to both. Multiple copies of content can be generated automatically and stored offsite if required. Policies can dictate where content is stored and for how long. All this can be an automated to provide an
invisible process to the user. The analyst group Gartner predict that by 2012 the typical company will manage seven times the information that it currently stores today. Around two thirds of this data will be fixed or unchanging so in order to manage its growth cost effectively it is important to make sure that the infrastructure it resides on is appropriate and well managed using automation and policies wherever possible.
“Quantum’s clients are experiencing unstructured data explosion to varying degrees. To study DNA in a laboratory a single genetic analyser generates around 50 terabytes of data per year. CERN’s LHC in Switzerland generates 3 petabytes per month.
If some of the media and broadcast organisations didn’t use intelligent file management with built in data protection that supports this growth, they would probably be very quickly overwhelmed” concludes Alistair Washbourn.
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