New Storage Techniques and Technologies to Accelerate Camera to Cloud Workflows

Today's media and entertainment content creation workflows present unique data logistics challenges for data management teams. Between barriers to data mobility, challenges to data security, accelerated project timelines, and the industry-wide push to embrace digitally native workflows—a new kind of data storage solution is long overdue. — To overcome these issues, production teams, digital imaging technicians (DITs) and IT Production groups need their data in the right place, at the right time, and with the right accessibility, removing roadblocks in data logistics workflows. — Today's most competitive solutions to data logistics challenges enable customers to pay for high capacity, high performance, highly reliable storage solutions that meet data challenges head on, enabling users to store data anywhere—while only paying for the hardware each specific project needs—and physically transport that data securely to their post-production landing destination of choice for multi-cloud workflows and active archive. From project management and logistics support to highly reliable, S3 cloud storage with a flat-fee cloud import service, this technical paper will explore how partnering with a storage solution provider and embracing a subscription-based, as-a- service model for data management can help data managers accelerate camera to cloud workflows, resulting in cost savings and streamlined content collaboration. — Preliminary research and application results include: — • A short-term data-transfer-as-a-solution (DTaaS) subscription may be only 20% the cost of a storage area network (SAN) expansion — • Transfer content in days, not weeks, saving up to 12-15 hours per week of overtime costs — • S3 cloud storage with predictable cost and no additional fees — In an industry as fast paced as M&E, data storage capacity, security, and mobility should be the least of studios and production companies’ concerns. With DTaaS, IT professionals can trust their valuable content will be available when and where it's needed.

Published

2023-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Seagate Technology, Seagate, Lyve Systems, Lyve Mobile, Lyve Cloud, Cloud Import, Data Transfer as a Service, DTaaS, Camera-to-Cloud, Data Management, On Set, On Prem, Ingest, Consolidation, Transport, Pre-production, Post-production, Workflow

DOI

10.5594/M002022

ISBN

978-1-61482-964-5