52 TVBEurope Interview Into the cloud
So what’s next? At NAB this year, Quantum delivered a live demonstration of StorNext in the cloud. Stedman explains: “You can imagine a world
where StorNext knows how to manage data that sits in a cloud or in a cloud environment. Many cloud environments are built with storage that looks a
lot like our object storage product. Over time, you will see us work with customers and partners to enable cloud-based workflows built around StorNext.”
Stedman dubbed the NAB demo as “forward looking” and “a proof of concept that you can do a full StorNext workflow in the cloud”. Content was ingested into Quantum’s
StorNext 5 platform and moved to its Lattus Object Storage cloud using the Levels Beyond Reach Engine platform and Quantum’s StorNext Storage Manager. “Once it was in the cloud, we were using Adobe Anywhere to edit that material, Reach Engine to do media management and workflow management and Telestream for transcoding,” he says. “Once you put data in the cloud, all these applications could work on the data without moving it to a local device. You can work on it in the cloud. If you can put data up in the cloud and let people work on it as they need to, StorNext can manage that. The applications already know how to talk to StorNext and it’s almost an easy migration to cloud-based workflows.” He is excited about the prospect of the cloud going forward and the company thinks of the cloud as an active part of the workflow. “It’s a great direction for us of embracing the cloud as part of a workflow or as an enabler to the workflow. We can help customers migrate some or all of their workflow to the cloud with our technologies. I think it could be pretty transformative for customers trying to deal with needing to produce more content with more distributed workforce and do it faster.” But are customers still concerned about security in the cloud? “We explain the object storage technology and how that stores data in a very secure fashion. The gateway and firewall security, which we don’t make, is part of any hosted environment so you can pretty quickly get over that objection,” he says.
There are two types of cloud – public and private. “In a public cloud multiple people are sharing the same infrastructure whereas in a private cloud the infrastructure is in a hosted facility dedicated to you as a customer. Everything we’re talking about is on the private cloud side. That also alleviates a lot of the security concerns. It’s dedicated infrastructure but because it’s cloud-based it’s very scalable and you can dial it up or down depending on your usage.”
4K strain
Aside from the cloud, other developments in the industry such as Ultra HD have had an impact on the storage market. “It’s going to pose challenges for customers, and it already is,”
www.tvbeurope.com August 2014
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76