SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that Hogarth Worldwide, a fast-growing
global marketing implementation agency, has enhanced its
StorNext®-powered storage environment with an
Xcellis® workflow storage system, including QXS™
high-performance disk. Providing independent performance and
capacity scaling — as well as low-cost, long-term content
preservation — the end-to-end storage solution has enabled Hogarth
to maintain a highly efficient and collaborative production
operation as its business continues to grow around the world.
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Remarkable Growth Demands Swift Scalability
Working
closely with ad departments in major corporations and with creative
agencies, Hogarth produces advertising and other marketing
communications content across all media and all languages. The
agency relies on StorNext to support efficient delivery of
high-quality services including broadcast, print and digital
production, postproduction, CGI and language localization.
"One constant since Hogarth's early days has been Quantum's
StorNext," said Nick Wood,
production systems manager at Hogarth. "We started converting Xsan
environments to StorNext very early to take advantage of its
flexibility, performance and scale, and it enabled our teams to
collaborate on projects while working on any platform — Mac, Linux
or Windows. Today, 12 of our offices already have full StorNext
environments installed.
"With StorNext, we know we can quickly add disk capacity for an
office if the workload sees a surge, and we can expand the system
almost instantaneously to add more workstations. We've had to do
that — expand from five or six workstations to 40 for a big project
— and StorNext makes it easy."
While Hogarth's technical infrastructure and workflow have
helped it to become one of the world's top postproduction houses,
rapid growth — a doubling of its staff in the past year — and the
frequent need to scale up quickly to handle increasingly
data-intensive projects necessitated an expansion of its StorNext
foundation.
StorNext Powers Flexible End-to-End Workflow
Working
with Quantum and integrator-partner Trams, Hogarth recently
upgraded its environment with a StorNext-powered Xcellis workflow
storage solution.
The new Xcellis system not only allows the agency to scale
performance and capacity independently but also supports use of
network-attached storage (NAS) as part of the storage pool. The
actual transition to Xcellis took just a couple of hours, with no
impact on the work or experience of Hogarth's production teams.
Reliability, Performance and Flexibility Fuel
Efficiencies
Within the StorNext environment, Hogarth has
been able to leverage its existing investments across Mac, Linux
and Windows platforms while taking advantage of multiple storage
tiers to optimize its use and expansion of both storage performance
and capacity. StorNext's industry-leading streaming performance
enables the agency to maintain a highly efficient, collaborative
workflow with shorter design cycles.
"We are a real workflow company, and StorNext provides the most
flexible, powerful end-to-end workflow system available anywhere,"
said Wood. "There is no way we could have done what we have without
it."
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Photo Caption: Xcellis Shared Workflow Storage
Additional Resources
- Read the Hogarth Worldwide case study:
www.quantum.com/customerstories/hogarthworldwide/index.aspx
- For information about StorNext: www.stornext.com
- Learn more about Xcellis:
www.quantum.com/products/scale-out-storage/stornext-primary-storage/index.aspx
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out
tiered storage, archive and data protection. The company's StorNext
platform powers modern high-performance workflows, enabling
seamless, real-time collaboration and keeping content readily
accessible for future use and remonetization. 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.
Quantum, the Quantum logo, QXS, StorNext and Xcellis are either
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