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CASE STUDY
ELEMENT Productions Builds Out
with Facilis Shared Storage
I
n the heart of the vibrant Boston
media community, one company
stands out. A modern new facility with
the best artists and workflow tools at
their disposal, ELEMENT Productions
produces
compelling content
to ten users on
in
historic Back Bay under the shadow
of the Hancock Tower.
With six
Mac workstations, connected
through 10Gb Ethernet to the
server, it was important to have
a reliable and high-performance
solution for their projects. ELEMENT
moved
from their initial
Facilis
system purchased in 2011 to a new
192TB HUB24.
" ELEMENT took advantage of the
'Customer Loyalty Trade-in'
Facilis
discount for the new system. They
have been very happy with their
existing system and were eager to
utilize of some of the newer features/
functionality, " said Doug Hynes of
Facilis reseller CIS Group, " The sales
process was easy as the ELEMENT
team knew what they wanted, but
the timeline extended due to a new
facility build-out, which was finally
complete in June 2023. "
ELEMENT's first system from 2011
was still in operation and working
well but
was
unable
to make
use of all the new features and
advancements that Facilis had made
over the past several years.
" We needed more capacity to help
with the increase in the quantity
of projects coming in as well as for
the increased
resolution we are
now working with, " explains
Kim Kelley, Head of Post
at
ELEMENT.
" Our workflow requires
having multiple editors and
colorists handling the same
footage at same time. With many
of our clients present for editing
sessions, having a solution that is
networked with hardware and out of
the edit bay is important. "
Reliability
for the ELEMENT team, as
is especially important
their
customers are on hard deadlines and
downtime can affect the bottom line.
" Before we knew about Facilis,
we had a failure with a previous
system that
resulted in loss
data, which cost the company a lot,
both financially and from a project
perspective, " continues
Kelley,
" Since moving to Facilis, our system
has been bullet-proof for over a
decade. That was a welcome surprise
and simply unheard-of in today's
world
of
fast-moving technology.
of
It made the choice easy when we
started planning for a replacement. "
ELEMENT plans
to use many
of the tools that Facilis offers on
their HUB Shared Storage Servers,
including Object LTO to replace an
existing software backup solution,
FastTracker Asset
two-hour round-trip commute into
the office, " comments Kelley, " We
hope this will
really improve the
environment for our staff, give them
work-from-home flexibility
Management
to easily search and process their
assets, as well as control movement
to LTO, and WANLink remote access
features.
" We'd like to take advantage of
Facilis WANLink feature to facilitate
work from home capabilities for our
staff.
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This will
around
alleviate shipping
dealing with
and
and
improve efficiency in the timeline to
get jobs out the door. "
" The experience of ELEMENT as a
Facilis customer is the rule, not the
exception, " remarks Jim McKenna,
CMO of Facilis Technology,
" Our development
that
everything
and
from
simple system administration to
software upgrades
team and
support department work tirelessly
to be sure
network
troubleshooting is done right and
with the sense of urgency that our
customers expect. When you're a
Facilis customer, you have a partner
committed to your success. "
Visit Facilis Technology at
NAB Show 2024 - Booth SL5099
https://www.facilis.com
https://element.cc
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