CBS Digital Uses Atempo Time Navigator

Atempo, Inc. announced that CBS Digital, the visual
effects and post-production division of CBS Corporation, uses Atempo
Time Navigator for the preservation and retrieval of high-value
computer generated imagery (CGI) files developed for hit TV shows and
movies. With its powerful data management and restoration capabilities,
Time Navigator is an essential component in CBS Digital’s
deadline-driven environment.

CBS Digital artists create visual
effects across the entertainment industry, with the majority of their
projects involving television shows and movies. By nature of its
production cycle, this type of programming requires the studio to
complete data-heavy projects on short deadlines. As a result, CBS
Digital needed to find an efficient and sophisticated data management
solution that the company could rely on for quick and efficient
retrieval of archived effects and frames.

The studio turned to
Atempo to manage the 50 TB of data in its complex storage environment.
Time Navigator’s cross-platform capabilities were a key selling point
to CBS Digital, where large blocks of CGI data are moved across
multiple Mac, Linux and Windows servers and operating systems on a
daily basis. The software’s powerful Time Navigation feature gives CBS
Digital the ability to rapidly and accurately restore files saved at
any point in time from any storage tier.

“Our artists not only
create visual effects that require secure back up policies, but they
also constantly leverage older digital frames that need to be recovered
from our archives in an efficient and timely manner,” said John Small,
systems engineer at CBS Digital. “Time Navigator gives us the best of
both worlds, and has proved to be a reliable and vital tool in our
day-to-day operations. It has never missed a beat and has made my job a
breeze.”

“Like so many businesses in media and entertainment,
CBS Digital produces high-value digital innovations that require a
sophisticated approach to data preservation,” said Karim Toubba, VP of
Marketing for Atempo. “Time Navigator has long been established as a
valuable solution to Hollywood studios and post-production shops by
simplifying the complex data management issues common to the industry.
The assurance of powerful data protection and speedy file restoration
both reduces and simplifies administrative tasks and allows CBS Digital
to focus their efforts on producing more impressive creative content.”

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