Turner Studios Deploys Quantum StorNext

Quantum Corporation announced that its
StorNext software is part of Turner Studios‘ Sports Central solution, which
recently received a 2012 Excellence Award from Broadcast
Engineering magazine.

Turner Studios built this system to streamline and centralize the video ingest,
management and multi-screen distribution of its sports content and selected
Quantum’s StorNext File System and StorNext Storage Manager software to manage
the sharing, accessing and archiving of content within the system. Other
companies providing key technologies in Turner’s solution include Dalet, EVS,
NetApp and Stainless Code.

With its partner, Turner
Sports, Turner Studios covers approximately 6,000 events each year resulting in
27,000 hours of recorded live content – or an average of 74 hours of video a
day – and close to two million highlights. Additionally, Turner’s database
references nearly 3,000 teams and 30,000 players. To manage this massive amount
of content, Turner built a centralized system configured for 26 ingest and 16
playout channels, with any content available for logging, editing and viewing
within 10s. The company launched this asset management solution on Christmas
Day 2011, after 15 months of specification and development.

Quantum’s contribution
to the solution is helping
organizations manage, share and archive large, big data files. Its StorNext
File System software offers a fast single stream
performance that scales to meet demanding workflow environments. The software
also provides shared access for multiple OSs and applications, offering flexibility
for changing business needs. StorNext Storage Manager is architected
for policy-based tiering and provides a cost-effective approach for managing
video archives.

Craig Heyl, SVP, Turner
Studios, said: "Using Quantum’s
StorNext software, Turner Studios has created a sophisticated video ingest,
management and multi-screen distribution system which leverages
high-performance sharing, accessing and archiving of content. StorNext support
for multiple platforms and software tools provides the underlying framework
that enables seamless workflow collaboration for end-to-end content lifecycle
management."

Janae Stow Lee, SVP, filesystem
and archive, Quantum, said: "We are
honored that Turner Studios selected our StorNext technology to serve as a key
element in their asset management system. In the media and entertainment
industry, StorNext is often the only solution that can successfully address the
high-performance speed, scale and tiering requirements for managing massive
amounts of video content that broadcasters such as Turner create on a daily
basis. Congratulations to Turner for this well-deserved award recognizing their
vision and drive in building a system which delivers even more value to their
viewers."

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