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MediaHub Australia replaces tape and legacy arrays with Scality RING as the foundation for its services platform

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MediaHub Australia is a joint venture company established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the WIN Television Network (WIN TV). It is a large-scale, multi-client digital media, play-out and distribution facility, currently delivering over 300 channels to the Australian metropolitan and regional markets.

 

MediaHub needed to replace existing storage arrays with a more durable, more efficient, lower-maintenance solution that could compete with cloud economics at scale, offer geo-protection, resist site failure and reduce the overhead of the active stand-by storage model.

 

MediaHub selected Scality RING to replace both tape and legacy storage arrays, supporting multiple workloads and services including media active archive, content activation, video-on-demand, SAN and NAS offload, video transcoding, and MAM and DAM storage.

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flag The Challenge

Legacy arrays and tape couldn't compete with cloud economics or survive site failure
MediaHub needed to replace existing storage arrays with a more durable, more efficient, lower-maintenance solution that could compete with cloud economics at scale, offer geo-protection, resist site failure and reduce the overhead of the active stand-by storage model.

Recently, MediaHub was looking to replace a couple of existing storage arrays with a solution which was more durable, more efficient and required less maintenance. The company also wanted to be able to offer a number of new services to the market, which would require a modern, software-defined approach to storage.

Enterprises worldwide are contending with an accelerated pace of digital transformation where reliable and flexible IT infrastructure could be the difference between winning and losing customers. Recently, MediaHub was looking to replace a couple of existing storage arrays with a solution which was more durable, more efficient and required less maintenance. We also wanted to be able to offer a number of new services to the market, which would require a modern, software-defined approach to storage. Our new storage array needed to be able to compete with cloud economics at scale, have geo-protection to improve the overall availability of the system, be resistant to site failure and reduce the overhead of the active stand-by storage model. This solution we found is Scality RING.

Alan Sweeney

Chief Executive Officer, MediaHub

Data protection isn’t just important; it’s essential. If someone hit us with ransomware and encrypted our systems, then we’d have a big problem. We’d risk production, compliance, and customer trust.

Alan Sweeney

Chief Executive Officer, MediaHub

tick Solution

Software-defined storage on standard x86 servers — no hardware lock-in

MediaHub Australia selected Scality RING software-defined storage (SDS) to replace both tape and legacy storage arrays to support multiple workloads and services, including media active archive, content activation, video-on-demand, SAN and NAS offload, video transcoding and MAM and DAM storage.

The RING provides true transformative innovation, with a fundamentally different way to store and manage data, transcending the limitations of storage appliances and NAS. Also, Scality RING software-defined storage delivers the enormous scalability that other architectures simply cannot and it runs on standard x86 servers, with no hardware lock-in, or lengthy hardware validation cycles – delivering the key advantages of cloud-hosted storage. For MediaHub, this is the future of our data management.

Alan Sweeney

Chief Executive Officer, MediaHub

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