DataDirect Networks

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, a leading provider of state-of-the-art services and technologies for the global digital media and entertainment industry, faced several challenges. The company was experiencing an increasing demand to access and share high-resolution post-production workflow content on a global scale. The massive storage requirements and rapid growth created a surge of Big Data. The company's legacy tape-based archives proved insufficient in meeting fast turnaround and high-performance throughput expectations. Deluxe Creative Services sought an improved architectural underpinning that would enable selectively replicating data globally for easy and fast access by remote users. The company's traditional model of local SAN storage wouldn't scale out to a global footprint. Using NAS storage to move content from New York to London also would be too slow, leading to performance bottlenecks.

Anyang City Hall in South Korea launched a major initiative to tackle urban street crime, slash traffic congestion, and beef up the city’s disaster response capabilities. The first step was to combine the city’s crime prevention and disaster management systems into a single infrastructure, deployed and managed in the city’s brand new Integrated Operations Briefing room. The challenge was to deploy a massive intelligent video surveillance system across Anyang’s entire 23-square-mile metropolitan area, with hundreds of high-definition digital video cameras linked to scores of servers running network video recording software and sophisticated pattern recognition analytics. The system links all cameras to the video management infrastructure in the Integrated Operations Briefing room at Anyang Police Department headquarters, complementing and enhancing the city’s police presence and rapid response capabilities. Anyang City Hall uses the same surveillance infrastructure for traffic management and forest fire prevention.

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) wanted to create a central media repository to store and archive all of its digital broadcasting workflow, from production and ingest through editing, post-production and play-out. The storage system needed to support a wide variety of devices and software packages, including ingest devices, editing stations running Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid, as well as play-out servers from Harris. The solution also needed to integrate with a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution which would be implemented during the second phase of the project. The solution not only needed to enable full connectivity and content sharing between heterogeneous systems, but allow them to work simultaneously, at full speed, without dropping frames or causing delays.