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Webinar: AI Enable Your Aging LTO-5/6 Archives

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Date: 29th Nov 2018, 16:00 or 22:00 GMT

Media production is at an all-time high—with no signs of slowing down. By 2020, storage capacity requirements are predicted to increase by over 300%.

This explosive growth has facilities facing mounting issues sure to impact their media assets across every storage tier—especially when a significant percentage of their data is currently living on aging LTO-5/6 tapes.

Join on Thursday, November 29th to learn how to prepare your organization for the future by leveraging the power of AI combined with the latest LTO and disk-based storage technology.

In this webinar, you’ll learn

• Smart migration strategies for moving from LTO-5/6 to LTO-7/8
• How to use AI to eliminate countless hours of metadata logging and create a searchable database of your online, nearline, and archived media
• Ways to improve accessibility and organization across your entire storage infrastructure

Register today to reserve your seat!

Presented by StorageDNA and Studio Network Solutions

Video: How BBC Northern Ireland Turned Decades Of Content Into A Secure, Accessible Petascale Archive

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

BBC Northern Ireland produces a complete schedule of news and current affairs programming that it distributes over two television channels, two radio stations, and multiple online platforms.

BBC NI also delivers content from other BBC production centers to Northern Ireland audiences. In addition, its facilities also serve as a central digital archive for the Rewind Projects, hosting thousands of hours of existing content from all of the BBC’s different national sites.

To meet their challenge of storing, protecting, and making the content available for reuse, they turned to a workflow management solution from Cinegy built on the Quantum StorNext storage platform.

Attend this webinar and learn more about key elements of the BBC NI solution:

• Unified asset management environment spans multiple, discrete storage tiers for storing video and audio essences together with metadata

• Teams of users and applications in all areas have fast, simultaneous access to all media content on disk and tape

• Automated movement of data between disk and tape tiers for backup and archive

• High-speed, multi-stream transcoding delivers content quickly for accelerated production because data is visible on any computer

• Dual-redundant systems supports around-the-clock operations and provides back-end storage support to ensure DR protection

• A scalable solution that can grow as storage demands increase in the future

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Video: Turner’s Cloud Archive for CNN’s Video Library and Global Multiplatform Versioning

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


From AWS re:Invent 2017, Michael Koetter from Turner and Bhavik Vyas from AWS explain that Turner is creating a copy of CNN’s 37-year news video library in AWS to take advantage of the cost and architectural benefits of cloud storage.
This project has unique requirements around retrieval times, and Turner partnered with AWS to drive specific capabilities such as those Amazon Glacier expedited and bulk retrieval options. These cloud-based archives can enable Turner to use other cloud-based value-add services, such as AI/ML/search, and media supply chains efficiently. Turner’s global content exploitation strategies call for extensive versioning of content assets required for distribution to different platforms, products, and regions.
Today, this involves complex workflows to derive multiple downstream versions. Adopting the SMPTE Interoperable Mastering Format (IMF) and cloud-based object storage, Turner will dramatically simplify these workflows by enabling cloud-based automation and elastic scalability. Hear Turner’s strategy, implementation around these media workloads, and lessons learned.

Speakers:
Michael Koetter, SVP, Digital Media Systems, Turner
Bhavik Byas, Global Ecosystem Leader, M&E, AWS

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Webinar: LTO-8—The New Enterprise Tape Drive

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Live Webinar:Nov 15 6:00 pm GMT | On Demand after

Kieran Maloney and Ryan Duffy share the six reasons LTO tape has risen to the top as the best enterprise option with its latest eighth generation release: capacity, performance, error rate, material, cost of ownership, and diversification.

LTO advancements complement Quantum’s Scalar® libraries, further extending their position as an efficiency leader, making them the best solution to address today’s big data challenges and replace end-of-life proprietary tape systems.

Learn about the features of the latest LTO technology release, specific cost of ownership comparisons versus proprietary tape, and the future roadmap for development.
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