SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that Crown Media Family Networks has
transformed the way it manages high-resolution video content by
adopting Quantum's workflow-optimized storage. One of the largest
U.S. providers of family-oriented content and parent company of the
Hallmark Channel, Crown Media turned to Quantum and Integrated
Media Technologies (IMT), a digital media technology integrator, to
help it keep up with rapidly growing content production and
distribution demands. IMT architected and deployed a Quantum
StorNext 5 shared storage appliance and Lattus® object
storage system, providing a highly scalable content management
solution that automatically preserves and protects the company's
digital assets while making them readily available as needed.
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Content Growth Creates Storage Challenges
Under its
previous storage infrastructure, Crown Media ingested files into
online storage for editing and moved them to a tape archive when
they were no longer active. Then, when the company needed content
for repurposing or rebroadcast, it would pull the video files out
of the tape archive and stage it back to online storage. As Crown
Media took on more work, however, this workflow became
unsustainable.
"The strain created by so much more new content meant that we
were continually buying new online disk storage, managing larger
tape archives that were hard to access and not protecting content
as well as we should," said Roy
Burns, director of digital asset management at Crown Media.
"Knowing that IMT had helped so many other companies dramatically
improve their media workflows, we engaged them to help us find a
solution."
Extending Online Storage With Lattus
IMT quickly
recognized the benefits Quantum could provide in Crown Media's
existing environment based on StorNext's complete compatibility
with the company's previous Xsan online storage network. In
addition, StorNext® offered industry-leading performance
and seamless integration with Lattus, which IMT knew would provide
unique advantages from deployments it had made at other customer
sites.
Lattus uses object storage technology to create extended online
storage repositories that can hold up to hundreds of petabytes of
content and, through geographic distribution, provide a
self-healing environment that is both more scalable and more
resilient than traditional RAID arrays. The Crown Media Lattus
configuration spread content between the company's Los Angeles headquarters and a second site
near Denver. For added resilience,
the company has an additional controller at a third site in
New York.
Archiving and Protecting Content While Keeping It Readily
Accessible
The Quantum solution has enabled Crown Media not
only to ingest and transcode content but also to copy it
immediately to Lattus and replicate it from California to Colorado as soon as it is brought into the
system.
"As a result, we get much higher levels of protection than we
had before," explained Burns. "Best of all, the process is
automatic, which reduces the load on our IT guys; it completely
eliminates the overhead and delays of a separate backup
process."
When content is no longer being actively used, StorNext moves it
from online storage to Lattus object storage while continuing to
provide editors access to all content through the StorNext file
system and Levels Beyond Reach Engine. This provides Crown Media
with an extended online storage environment that scales to
petabytes of capacity and makes retrieving files a transparent and
nearly instantaneous process that is fully integrated with media
asset management.
"That's important for us because we pull data content out of the
archive literally every day," continued Burns. "Plus, we see
everything through Reach Engine, so we have a single point of
management and control for all workflow assets."
Looking back at the decision to adopt the Quantum solution,
Burns said he and his team originally thought it would need a
couple of years to grow into it. Although that proved to be
inaccurate, fortunately, the massive scalability of Lattus has
easily accommodated Crown Media's needs.
"A year later, we're in the process of doubling the amount of
content stored on Lattus, and we'd be dead without it — we wouldn't
be able to function," concluded Burns. "The Quantum solution has
been invaluable in increasing the efficiency of our workflow, from
ingest to edit to delivery and re-use."
"Customers like Crown Media are increasingly requesting storage
options beyond RAID and LTO tape," said Jason Kranitz, senior vice president of sales at
IMT. "The trick is the solution must integrate seamlessly into the
existing workflow. With StorNext, Crown Media can not only easily
deploy Lattus to take advantage of object storage today but also
have the flexibility to add other technologies in the future,
including Quantum's Q-Cloud® cloud storage."
Photo Link:
https://quantum.box.com/CrownMediaPhotography
Photo Caption: Facing a sharp increase in content output,
Crown Media Family Networks chose the Quantum StorNext and Quantum
Lattus solutions to manage workflow data.
For additional details on the Crown Media success story, visit:
www.quantum.com/customerstories/crownmedia/index.aspx.
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in workflow
storage, archive and data protection. The company's StorNext 5
platform powers modern high-performance workflows, enabling
seamless, real-time collaboration and keeping content readily
accessible for future use and re-monetization. More than 100,000
customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding
content workflow needs, including top studios, major broadcasters
and cutting-edge content creators. With Quantum, customers can Be
Certain™ they have the end-to-end storage platform they need to
manage assets from ingest through finishing and into delivery and
long-term preservation. See how at www.stornext.com.
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