Japanese TV Station Customer of Infortrend

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announces that a national TV station in Japan uses its storage solution to address the increasing demands of its broadcasting workload.

The modernization of their storage system allows them further enhancements such as higher performance and capacity, flexibility in access management, and remote backup functionality.

This client faced common challenges in managing media content – handling huge data volumes brought by ultra-high-definition video formats, such as 4K, 8K, and beyond. They looked for a solution that provides better performance and capacity, while supporting integration into the existing data environment without interrupting the daily operation.

In this project, Infortrend’s enterprise EonStor GS 3000 series unified storage and JB 3000 series expansion enclosure were used as a NAS, a system for file sharing among multiple ingestion servers and editing workstations. Another GS 3000 was used for file archive via remote backup. The GS 3000 storage system provides high and stable file-level performance via a 10GbE connectivity to meet the demanding requirements of TV broadcasting workload.

Moreover, EonStor GS supports network protocols including CIFS, AFP, NFS, and FTP. These supported protocols allow integration into the customer’s existing environment. The system also allows the customer to flexibly manage data access rights to adjust to their business needs.

“The media industry has continuous demands in upgrading the existing storage system to catch up with the rapidly growing data volumes. Overall, performance is the customers’ major concern because they are dealing with bandwidth-consuming data,” said Thomas Kao, senior director of product planning, Infortrend. “With EonStor GS, we guarantee that our customers get the superior write/read performance, a wide range of network interfaces, and on-line data migration for an easy upgrade of their existing data management system.“