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Case Study: Large Enterprise Media & Entertainment Company

Challenges

Cited that the primary reasons for purchasing their Ocarina ECOsystem were:
- Keep more data online longer instead of being archived to tape media
- Build a cost-effective, disk-based nearline archive
- Enable artists to retrieve frames in real time instead of waiting for tape media to be loaded

Environment

Storing greater than 200 TB online and nearline data in an archive
Online data is growing at less than 25% per year.
Spends $1,000 per TB on storage.
Took 200 TBs of raw data off tape and put it in their nearline store.
Deployed their Ocarina ECOsystem with the following file storage:
- HP/PolyServe
- IBRIX
- Network Appliance

Benefits

Rated Ocarina’s technical support as excellent.
Reduced the image data footprint by 40% by deploying their Ocarina ECOsystem.

Testimonials

“We’re able to create a persistent archive of assets that can be reused easily, saves artist time and effort. We can extract value from stuff we used to “discard” (from the artists perspective)."

“The Ocarina ECOsystem has enabled me to build a cost effective nearline disk archive to store data that is critical to the sucess of our organization. This solution has drastically reduced the net price of new disk purchases and increased overall end user productivity.”

Source:

Large Enterprise Media & Entertainment Company

TVID: B5D-473-A87

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Aug 19, 2009
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