Media and entertainment
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500+ organizations across the globe trust Scality to store and protect their data
Successful content distribution is all about ensuring that data is always available when and where you want it — and accessible in the format required for your applications.
Storage for media and entertainment content calls for a file and object storage solution built with a solid understanding of media workflow challenges — from production to post-production, content distribution, media asset management and data archiving.
The pressure is on to manage data differently. Despite recognizing the strategic potential of data, many large-scale enterprises face serious challenges in managing their enterprise data across fragmented storage silos.
Storage challenges for media & entertainment
Enormous volume
Scalability is critical. Media data is massive, driven to petabytes by higher resolutions (4K and soon 8K), higher bit depths (HDR), higher frame rates (from 24 fps to 60 and soon 120), and new technologies (such as 3D, VR, AR).
High costs
As volumes grow, costs multiply. Tier-1 storage is needed for capture and post-production, but it gets costly downstream. Purpose-built archive and backup appliances end up creating more silos.
24×7 access
On-demand access is expected. Today’s consumers have high standards for access to their favorite media and entertainment content. It must be instantly accessible anywhere at any time, without delays.
Long-term retention
Accessing archived content should be fast and easy. M&E companies must retain data for long periods of time — and they need hassle-free ways to repurpose and monetize older data.
Diverse format variety
Media and entertainment content is distributed in myriad formats, adding complexity. File data from legacy media workflow applications may not be supported in the same storage platform with new object-based content delivery workloads.
Why IT leaders in media & entertainment love Scality
Built to accommodate the demands of any workload at any scale, Scality empowers enterprises with data storage that is secure and resilient, highly performant and available. Scality specializes in protecting and managing massive amounts of unstructured data, both on-premises and in public clouds.
Scality RING is an optimal solution for near-line archives in post-production, as well as active media archives and origin server storage for content distribution.
We’re a trusted partner to a diverse range of media and entertainment companies across the globe, including content creators (film & TV studios, post-production houses, sports associations) and content distributors (cable & broadcasters).
Scality RING for video on demand
Storage is at the heart of successful vdeo-on-demand (VoD) service. Profitability and performance go hand-in-hand.
“We have made very good progress in standing up not only a product, but really a whole infrastructure solution that can add the scale we need for all the changes coming in the future.”
Scality solutions for media data offer:
Proven success
More than 1/3 of the world’s top service providers base their customer-facing cloud services — and are ultimately building their businesses — on Scality RING.
Multidimensional scalability
Scality RING is limitlessly flexible to grow with you in number of apps, capacity, objects, buckets, transactions, throughput (and more) as a single system with guaranteed response and continuous availability.
Acting as a single, distributed system, RING scales linearly across three to thousands of servers and multiple sites with the ability to store an unlimited number of objects.
Continuous data availability & visibility
Scality enables 100% availability — during hardware failures, software upgrades, and capacity expansion (even across hardware generations).
Complete UI-based system-level management and monitoring of all data services, data health, cloud workflows and hardware platform health help make data more visible. Comprehensive analytics provide detailed metrics for utilization reporting and informed decision-making.
Broad validation
With more than 150 partners, Scality has the largest active application ecosystem in the industry and nurtures tight partnerships for each identified workload.
Scality solutions are validated by all leading solution vendors in the ecosystems for media archiving, asset management, content streaming and delivery.
Low TCO
For maximum compatibility and cost-savings, Scality software is designed for deployment on industry-standard x64 server platform hardware, disk drives and standard IP networks. By riding on the declining cost of commodity hardware, the cost of ownership is minimized.
Unlike conventional storage, our design enables worry-free capacity expansion, upgrade and swap-out as data is managed by the software, not tied to appliance form factors.
White-glove support
Scality’s global team of experts offer personalized technical and professional support to ensure peace of mind.
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