Korean Media Company Egg Chooses Infortrend SAN Storage

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced that Egg Films Co. Ltd, a Korean media production company, is coming is leveraging its storage solution for M&E – EonStor DS enterprise SAN storage to empower content creation workflows and store the growing volume of UHD videos they produce.

Egg is coming is a media content production company operating as a spin-off from the South Korean entertainment firm CJ ENM Entertainment Division, the distributor of Oscar-winning movie Parasite. With the renowned producer Lee Myung-han as its CEO, Egg is coming specializes in production of popular entertainment content, including drama series, broadcast programs, music videos, etc. The team has successfully produced numerous renowned series, including Hospital Playlist which became the 9th highest-rated Korean drama in cable television history at the time.

As the company was established, they started looking for a high-speed shared storage solution. EonStor DS SAN storage came recommended by a major media company that has been using it with Tiger Technology’s SAN file sharing solution. Trusting this recommendation, Egg is coming adopted EonStor DS for video editing application. In total, 4xDS 4016 appliances, expanded with 4 units of JB 3060L expansion enclosure, were chosen for the initial deployment of the studio’s storage system. The solution provides 1.8PB total capacity to store ever-expanding UHD video content and enables workflows for 29 simultaneous post-production processes.

“Infortrend’s SAN storage EonStor DS was recommended to us by a major media production company, and we are happy that we adopted the same solution as DS enables fast and comfortable collaboration between 29 video editors,” said Changmin Sim, team leader, video editing, Egg Films.