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Library & Storage
Management
Remote working, hybrid on-prem and cloud migrations and smarter
allocation of storage resources all make production more efficient and
reduce costs. Contributing Editor Adrian Pennington reports...

ith production teams worldwide
Qumulo's CloudStudio
leaving their studios to work
allows remote connectivity
from home, organisations urgently
with up to 30fps video
playback
need tools and architectures that
will enable them to continue running
specialised workflows like editing,
rendering and post-production effects.
Among
them
is
Qumulo's
CloudStudio which is deployed on AWS
or Google Cloud, allowing local artists
to connect from anywhere (including
their couches), while experiencing
seamless 30+ frames per second video has developed a Proxy-in-the-Cloud storage such as AWS S3 or AWS
playback.
solution. This enables secure access to Glacier.
Qumulo CloudStudio works with media over AWS through its workflow
Using logical storage groups and
software tools including Premiere engine called Reach Engine. The rules defined within each group, Tedial
Pro, Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, solution, which integrates with Aspera explains that aSTORM can move,
3ds Max, Nuke and Maya, and others. and Signiant for file transport and backup and restore content when and
Combined
with
ultra-low-latency with AWS Elemental file processing, where required. Live content can be
remote PCoIP clients such as those by is currently in use by the NHL and kept on online storage for a period of
Teradici, remote artists get the same Amazon Studios.
time depending on its genre. aSTORM
level of application responsiveness
can immediately archive content
they're used to, the company explains, Smarter Asset Management
to tape whilst storing it online for
because applications get the same
With an industry traumatised a certain period of time depending
enterprise-grade file storage they need financially by the crisis the need on the logical storage group. News
to run properly.
to save cost is ever more pressing. content can be kept online for 48
"Qumulo running in the cloud Several solutions help optimise the hours while live sport, which might
provides best-in-class NFS and SMB storage of assets so that content is need to be kept for editing throughout
protocol support, automatic cross- found easier and held on the most a whole week, can be kept on online
protocol permissions handling, and economic storage tiers.
storage for seven days, for
full metadata fidelity," it states.
Tedial's Evolution MAM system example. Similar rules can be
"Some of the world's largest movie includes
aSTORM,
a
content set using a public cloud.
studios, streaming content providers, management solution that manages
Spectra Logic's storage
and gaming companies are using various tiers across departments, management
software
Qumulo in the public cloud to run their locations or in the cloud. This includes StorCycle is designed to
customised pre- and post workflows at on-prem live storage, nearline, deep reduce primary storage costs
scale."
archive tape libraries or public cloud by migrating and storing
"Remote workforce enablement
inactive - non-accessed for those working with documents,
data on cheaper storage
images, and online meetings is one
devices. Spectra promotes
thing," says Jeff Kazanow of Levels
a two-tier model with a
Beyond. "But those working with
first tier being the Primary
high-volume,
high-throughput,
Tier for production data and the
video content are quickly learning
second Perpetual Tier with various
that standard remote workforce
devices and entities between tape
infrastructure and dependence on
libraries, NAS, object storage and
VPNs will not cut it.
cloud storage. The software is smart
To help media companies
enough to identify and migrate
transitioning creative production
inactive data from the primary
and
video
distribution
storage tier to a more affordable
environments to a work-atPerpetual Tier which is for
home model Levels Beyond
storage, distribution,
Tedial Evolution aSTORM management solution secondary

archive, and disaster recovery.
Spectra explains that organisations
typically store their growing banks of
data on the more expensive Primary
Tier and says to 80 percent of this
data is inactive, costing both space and
money.
"IT professionals know they can't
keep adding costly flash and disk
drives to their storage architectures
when capacities are maxed out," says
Nathan Thompson, CEO. "The storage
industry hasn't delivered the right
tools that can easily and optimally
manage data. StorCycle's unique
ability to scan and migrate inactive
and project data from a costly Primary
Tier of storage to a Perpetual Tier,
consisting of less expensive storage
targets, benefits data creators, IT
professionals
and
organisations
everywhere."
Masstech's storage and asset
lifecycle
management
platform,
Kumulate enables operators to search
and browse assets located on any
storage tier of any site.
For users looking to migrate content,
the Kumulate Orchestrator module
has automated tools for migrating
content across hardware versions,
storage tiers (e.g. tape to cloud) or
from legacy systems to other storage
platforms. Other standard workflows
include publishing to specific formats
(e.g. YouTube and Facebook), bulk
transcoding, and auto-archive for
iNEWS, ENPS and other newsroom
systems. AI and ML services such as
facial or object recognition, or speechto-text transcribing can be plugged in
to generate metadata that is stored
alongside the assets and searchable
from anywhere.

Spectra Logic claims its StorCycle
storage management software reduces
storage costs by up to 70%

Kumulate also integrates into Avid
and Adobe production environments,
allowing editors to manage their asset
storage from directly within editing
applications. Efficiency of local disk
and cloud storage is maximised with
features such as partial file restore of
sequences.

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