SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp.
(NYSE: QTM) today announced that Atlanta-based Crawford Media Services is using
Lattus® object storage to build a content repository
that supports mass migration of its clients' legacy content to
digital formats and provides ongoing media storage and management.
Designed to hold an initial 1.2 petabytes of archived assets as
well as content ingested during new projects, the system gives
Crawford Media a sophisticated storage infrastructure that
cost-effectively accommodates ongoing expansion of the company's
services and customer base.
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Increasing Data Footprint Challenges Traditional Archive
Approach
At Crawford Media, the mass digitization of
clients' content involves the generation of thousands of media
files, all at the high bit rates and large file sizes suitable for
production. As its business continued to grow, the resilience
limitations of its existing archive architecture became ever more
obvious.
"When you are dealing with large archives of media files at
preservation quality, you start creating a data footprint and a
performance demand that outstrip the capabilities of typical IT
departments," said Steve Davis,
executive vice president and chief technology officer at Crawford
Media. "Our challenge was to develop a digital archive that would
become more robust as it grew in size, rather than more fragile. We
explored solutions that would allow us to keep large data sets
cost-effectively in perpetuity without degradation, and to survive
the costs of media and technology refreshes over time. After
extensive research and testing, it became clear that object storage
with erasure code — and specifically, Lattus — was the ideal
choice."
Integrating Quantum Technology to Crystalize AMBER
The
integration of Lattus with Crawford's existing archive approach was the
final step in the development of the company's second-generation
managed archive, AMBER. Named after the prized substance that
preserves prehistoric specimens even today, AMBER provides a level
of immunity to system failure and data corruption not previously
achievable. Like its namesake, AMBER is extremely effective for
long-term preservation of digital data. Crawford's second-generation archive offers
peace of mind for organizations concerned with long-term security
and access for their content.
Quantum's Strong Technology and Support Makes the
Difference
According to Davis, a key factor in his selection
of Lattus was the level of robustness, availability and immunity to
failure it provided, which he saw as "impossible to achieve
with simple replication." Lattus' self-healing and self-migration
capabilities preserve the integrity of media files, and it offers
seamless, infinite incremental scaling with no downtime.
"One nice thing about the Lattus approach, in particular, is
that the growth increments are very manageable and very flexible,"
Davis explained. "You don't have to conform to a certain hard drive
form factor or size to expand the system. The system simply uses
capacity as you add it, becoming more robust as it gets
bigger."
"The advantages of erasure code for an archive are
overwhelming," Davis continued. "Unparalleled data integrity,
immunity to entropy, a smaller data footprint than replication,
high immunity to system failure, automatic rebalancing of data, and
media refresh as the archive grows. With Lattus, AMBER offers our
clients the extremely high levels of data durability and data
integrity they need in their digital media archives."
Along with Lattus, Crawford Media deployed Quantum's Artico™
archive appliance, which incorporates Quantum's
StorNext® data management to move content to and from
Lattus automatically while maintaining full access to the files. In
addition, StorNext enables the company to write to tape for its
clients.
In short, Quantum's integrated, multi-tier storage solution
enables Crawford Media to capitalize more easily and
cost-effectively on new revenue-generation opportunities.
"When storage-as-a-service is your business, you need an
underlying infrastructure that enables you to onboard new clients
and new data as aggressively as possible," said Davis. "With
Quantum's strong technology and support, we enjoy confidence in the
overall archive and its integrity over the long term. That's peace
of mind we'd never get by assembling components ourselves. The
reliability of the system keeps our cost points stable, which in
turn gives us the freedom to offer better services at a competitive
price."
Photo Link:
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Photo Caption: Crawford's
second-generation managed archive, AMBER, uses Quantum's Lattus
object storage to provide a level of immunity to system failure and
data corruption not previously achievable.
Additional Resources
- For more information about Lattus:
www.quantum.com/products/bigdatamanagement/lattus/index.aspx
- Read about Artico:
www.quantum.com/products/archive-storage/artico-nas/index.aspx
- Learn more about AMBER: www.crawford.com/amber
About Crawford Media Services
Crawford Media Services,
Inc. is an Atlanta-based,
privately held company and proven leader in the electronic media
services industry whose mission is to provide creative, turnkey
electronic media solutions for television, film and archival
clients. Crawford has offered
premium media services to domestic and international clients for
over 35 years. Through its ongoing commitment to evolve
technologies, Crawford continues
to deliver the best in comprehensive digitization, digital archive,
descriptive metadata and asset management solutions.
www.crawford.com
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out
tiered 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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