Case Study: The Mill Tandberg Data

The Challenge

Real time video editing dictated that each of the 14 editing suites required large amounts of expensive local disk storage, totalling more than 40TB, all of which needed to be archived to tape. The challenge was magnified by the fact that each suite’s Intel-based server hardware was already full of video input/output cards, so any storage system could only use the pre-installed Fibre Channel expansion cards.

To address this problem, Cognitive Network Solutions, the trusted storage advisor to The Mill, advised them to install direct-attached storage onto very fast tape drives. By deploying the latest generation of LTO-4 tape drives attached to each editing suite, they suggested that The Mill could realize near realtime speed to facilitate the archiving process and, as an added bonus, achieve the best value for the money.


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