SYDNEY, Aug. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that TBWA Australia, one of the
country's top advertising and creative agencies, is using a Quantum
storage solution powered by StorNext® to streamline
content sharing, keep content protected and available and reduce
administrative overhead by hundreds of hours a year.
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"With growing demand for digital media production outpacing our
existing storage systems, we needed a solution that could ensure
data protection while saving staff time," said Jaymz Hingert, regional IT manager at TBWA
Australia. "Of the solutions we evaluated, only StorNext was
capable of addressing our data protection and productivity
requirements; every other solution would have demanded a great deal
of manual intervention. And we discovered Quantum had a StorNext
solution designed for smaller offices."
Pushing the Limits of Direct-Attached and RAID
Storage
Prior to deploying the Quantum platform, video
editors at TBWA Australia worked on servers with direct-attached
disk storage, a model that ultimately compromised both workflow
efficiency and the security of valuable content. To bring content
from existing assets into current work, team members had to find
the disk, mount it, locate the right files and then find enough
space to restore the appropriate content back onto the local disk
where they were building the new project. In addition to bogging
down editing processes, this model complicated collaboration
because editors could only share files by moving RAID arrays
between servers or using flash drives, whether transferring the
files across the office or between offices in different cities.
TBWA Australia's rapidly increasing workload — and corresponding
increase in the volume of high-resolution files requiring storage —
put further pressure on storage. Teams worked on RAID arrays until
they were full and then stored them on-site with rarely enough time
for a real backup. Preservation of this growing store of client
content was a significant concern because moving data off-site for
disaster recovery (DR) protection simply wasn't possible.
Automating Content Protection and Streamlining Collaborative
Workflow
By supporting a fully automated end-to-end
workflow, the Quantum solution has made it easy for TBWA Australia
to improve collaboration among editors, protect content and
leverage direct access to archived data to speed reuse of existing
assets. Supplied and integrated by Quantum partner CompNow, the
StorNext-powered system provides a dedicated SAN fabric, 48TB of
high-performance disk, a Quantum Xcellis™ Workflow Director to
manage data across different tiers, a StorNext AEL500 LTO archive
and Quantum Q-Cloud® off-site cloud storage.
Within the agency's new workflow, StorNext Storage Manager™
automatically creates a tape copy of any file saved on Xcellis
shared storage. Stored in the StorNext AEL archive, this tape copy
serves as a backup while work is in progress. When a project is
complete, StorNext then removes the content from shared storage,
while the tape copy remains accessible from that storage as an
active archive, minimizing the disk space required on the shared
storage. The IT team also has established a policy so that whenever
StorNext makes a copy to the tape archive, it creates and sends a
copy to Q-Cloud. As a result, TBWA Australia can use the tape for
normal recovery and archive access while maintaining DR
protection.
"Q-Cloud provides automated, indefinite DR protection," added
Hingert. "If the building burns down tomorrow, we've got a copy of
everything — current projects and old material — safely on
Q-Cloud."
Collaboration across TBWA Australia is also much easier and more
efficient because editors are able to see everything, no matter
where it's stored, through the same file system. LAN connections
facilitate transmission of files between offices for faster,
simpler sharing of content across the agency.
"StorNext has helped our creative team to realize an immense
gain in productivity," said Hingert, "and we all sleep much better
knowing that all our data is safe, both on tape and in the
cloud."
Additional Resources
- Read the TBWA Australia case study:
www.quantum.com/customerstories/tbwa/index.aspx
- Learn more about StorNext: www.stornext.com
- Check out Quantum's cloud archive offering:
www.stornext.com/solutions/archive-in-the-cloud
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out
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 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.quantum.com/customerstories-mediaent.
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