THE CHALLENGE THE SOLUTION Multi Screen Media faced major storage and data management challenges caused by a large volume of legacy content and the adoption of file-based workflows, with a significant amount of content being delivered as XDCAM, ProRes and RED files. As space on the company's Omneon MediaGrid shared storage platform quickly ran out, it became critical to find a high performance LTO LTFS archiving solution to help manage the massive amounts of file-based content. "It was clear we needed an efficient and intelligent archiving solution to help us lower storage costs," said Sujay Hanje AVP, Post Production, Multi Screen Media. "However, we also needed to address the increasing difficulty our users encountered finding content, as no central search mechanism existed." DNAevo

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