Media and Entertainment - 8120
The Challenge: Cost effectively scale storage infrastructure to support rapid expansion of content libraries while delivering scalable distribution to your CDN and affiliates.
The Solution: The 8120 Origin system, with up to 5PBs storage and 10Gb/s of Ingest performance.
Media and entertainment companies are witnessing a global transition toward online consumption of content. To support online viewers and their demand for content, companies must rapidly expand their video libraries with both new and repurposed catalog content. At the origin level the challenge is to affordably store content on systems that scale economically as content libraries grow and easily integrate with existing content management systems.
The complex chain of Internet video distribution amplifies storage requirements. Media and Entertainment companies are increasing the supply of professional quality video by digitizing their catalog titles and developing new content strictly for online distribution. Libraries also grow to support the myriad file-types required by consumer demand and business requirements. The end result is a need for a highly scalable, resilient storage system that will not compromise profitability by driving up the per title cost of storage. When legacy storage systems are applied to the problem of rich media library storage the incremental cost per useable GB of storage increases as the system scales. With the Blackwave 8120 Origin system, the cost per usable GB of storage decreases as the system scales.
The Blackwave 8120 Origin System exceeds the need for scalable high-performance storage. The Blackwave 8120 Origin System is scalable to 5PBs of storage capacity and 10Gb/s of ingest performance within a single namespace, thereby eliminating the expense of traditional enterprise storage systems or the engineering, support and management of a build-your own white box system. The Blackwave 8120 leverages a GRID architecture for resilience, using intelligent content management to minimize the footprint and associated operating costs of traditional storage systems. Should the need arise to lower distribution costs through internal infrastructure development, the Blackwave 8120 can be easily upgraded to the Blackwave 8150 system for content delivery starting at 10Gb/s.
Benefits for Media and Entertainment Companies:
- Low Cost per GB of Storage
The Blackwave 8120 Origin System was designed to store entire rich-media libraries at a lower cost of scale that traditional and white-box media storage systems. For companies facing an exponential increase in storage requirements as media libraries grow, a low cost per GB of usable storage has a significant positive impact on the profitability of each video stream.
- Easy to Implement
The Blackwave 8120 Origin System is a turnkey system that can be readily deployed without diverting IT resources from their mission-critical activities. The system’s unique management console enables you to securely ingest, configure and control massive amounts of content as well as delivery to your content delivery network provider of choice. The 8120 Origin System utilizes web-based protocols to easily integrate into your content management system.
- Flexible Scalability
The 8120 Origin System is a modular system that expands to multiple PBs of storage. In addition, as part of the Blackwave 8100 Family the system effortlessly integrates into an 8150 or 8170 Distribution system should there be a change in your delivery strategy. With this adaptive scalability you can easily respond to the growing expansion of your content library or capitalize on changes in the underlying economics of Internet video distribution without having to completely reinvest in infrastructure.