Case Study

Barrett-Jackson combines benefits of flash and tape to protect business critical video assets

Barrett-Jackson combines benefits of flash and tape to protect business critical video assets

Case Study Barrett-Jackson Auction Company, a major collector car auction house, deploys an HPE 3PAR StoreServ flash and StoreEver tape solution to access and preserve video content from its car auctions. The combination of HPE StoreEver MSL6480 T ape Library with L TO-6 T ape Drives and tape-as-NAS software, integrate seamlessly with CatDV media asset management system. Challenge Growing collector car market Selling collector cars is big business all over the world and annual sales of sought-after vehicles in US public auctions recently passed $1 billion. The collector car market has increased by 270 percent in the last decade 1 . Moreover, the average price of an automobile at auction has risen from $33,000 to $61,000 and the number of vehicles sold has increased

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