DataDirect Networks Case Studies Accelerate: Media Entertainment

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Accelerate: Media Entertainment

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, a leading provider of state-of-the-art services and technologies for the global digital media and entertainment industry, faced several challenges. The company was experiencing an increasing demand to access and share high-resolution post-production workflow content on a global scale. The massive storage requirements and rapid growth created a surge of Big Data. The company's legacy tape-based archives proved insufficient in meeting fast turnaround and high-performance throughput expectations. Deluxe Creative Services sought an improved architectural underpinning that would enable selectively replicating data globally for easy and fast access by remote users. The company's traditional model of local SAN storage wouldn't scale out to a global footprint. Using NAS storage to move content from New York to London also would be too slow, leading to performance bottlenecks. Read More
About Customer	Deluxe Entertainment Services Group is a leading provider of state-of-the-art services and technologies for the global digital media and entertainment industry. The company provides services anywhere in the world where production is shooting, so it’s very common for them to push content from L.A. and pull it from London. Deluxe Creative Services, through its respective Company 3, EFILM, Method Studios and Beast brands, handles post-production processing and is home to one of the largest pools of colorists and visual effects specialists in the industry. Deluxe Creative Services has played an important role in many acclaimed films. Teams in Los Angeles, New York, London, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Vancouver and various virtual sites work together seamlessly to address all aspects of film post-production. Read More
Solution	Deluxe Creative Services saw object storage as a potential fit for handling all creative assets generated during post-production. The company chose DataDirect Networks (DDN) and ASG Software Solutions to deliver an integrated active archive solution featuring WOS and ASG-Digital Archiving (ADA). The ASG-Digital Archive is an open archive software solution that moves and preserves massive volumes of digital content into the WOS storage platform with automatic, end-user, application-driven or workflow-triggered archiving. The WOS-ADA solution takes advantage of ADA archiving and data movement capabilities along with the WOS appliance’s high-scale storage capabilities, high-performance read/write abilities, efficient disk utilization and geographic replication. The integrated platform delivers short-term storage with backup capacity and long-term archiving capabilities that support the preservation of data with its associated user metadata. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, a leading provider of state-of-the-art services and technologies for the global digital media and entertainment industry, faced several challenges. The company was experiencing an increasing demand to access and share high-resolution post-production workflow content on a global scale. The massive storage requirements and rapid growth created a surge of Big Data. The company's legacy tape-based archives proved insufficient in meeting fast turnaround and high-performance throughput expectations. Deluxe Creative Services sought an improved architectural underpinning that would enable selectively replicating data globally for easy and fast access by remote users. The company's traditional model of local SAN storage wouldn't scale out to a global footprint. Using NAS storage to move content from New York to London also would be too slow, leading to performance bottlenecks.

About Customer

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group is a leading provider of state-of-the-art services and technologies for the global digital media and entertainment industry. The company provides services anywhere in the world where production is shooting, so it’s very common for them to push content from L.A. and pull it from London. Deluxe Creative Services, through its respective Company 3, EFILM, Method Studios and Beast brands, handles post-production processing and is home to one of the largest pools of colorists and visual effects specialists in the industry. Deluxe Creative Services has played an important role in many acclaimed films. Teams in Los Angeles, New York, London, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Vancouver and various virtual sites work together seamlessly to address all aspects of film post-production.

Solution

Deluxe Creative Services saw object storage as a potential fit for handling all creative assets generated during post-production. The company chose DataDirect Networks (DDN) and ASG Software Solutions to deliver an integrated active archive solution featuring WOS and ASG-Digital Archiving (ADA). The ASG-Digital Archive is an open archive software solution that moves and preserves massive volumes of digital content into the WOS storage platform with automatic, end-user, application-driven or workflow-triggered archiving. The WOS-ADA solution takes advantage of ADA archiving and data movement capabilities along with the WOS appliance’s high-scale storage capabilities, high-performance read/write abilities, efficient disk utilization and geographic replication. The integrated platform delivers short-term storage with backup capacity and long-term archiving capabilities that support the preservation of data with its associated user metadata.

Impact #1	Seamless flow between traditional file systems, object storage and tape across multiple facilities and geographies to keep production workflows on track, shorten production time, and avoid pitfalls in the filmmaking process.
Impact #2	Optimal storage backend to proprietary automated transcoding engine.
Impact #3	A cohesive infrastructure that provides high-reliability storage and fast data movement that exceeds the rigorous requirements of major motion picture studios.

Impact #1

Seamless flow between traditional file systems, object storage and tape across multiple facilities and geographies to keep production workflows on track, shorten production time, and avoid pitfalls in the filmmaking process.

Impact #2

Optimal storage backend to proprietary automated transcoding engine.

Impact #3

A cohesive infrastructure that provides high-reliability storage and fast data movement that exceeds the rigorous requirements of major motion picture studios.

Benefit #1	Bandwidth rivals what we get on a tier-one SAN but at a much lower total cost of ownership.
Benefit #2	Expect to see WOS grow to 6 PBs pretty quickly.

Benefit #1

Bandwidth rivals what we get on a tier-one SAN but at a much lower total cost of ownership.

Benefit #2

Expect to see WOS grow to 6 PBs pretty quickly.

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Accelerate: Media Entertainment

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