Object storage for advanced digital asset preservation

Faced with tightening production deadlines and growing amounts of media content to manage in various formats, such as 2K, 4K, HD and SD, The Ark required a solution capable of handling a multi-petabyte archive of digital assets with self-healing and self-protecting capabilities along with fast retrieval times. Additionally, content creators and video editors needed to seamlessly and immediately access and share content across a variety of editing and VFX applications, such as Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer, where each toolset is supported by different operating systems.
Working with the technical experts at CCK, a UK-based Quantum certified reseller for product selection and installation, The Ark chose StorNext and Lattus™ products throughout its end- to- end digital content workflow.

Quantum products in use at The Ark include:
· Lattus-M, which integrates next generation object storage technology with StorNext Storage Manager™ in a highly durable, scalable and efficient disk-based archive and enables policy-based movement of content and rapid retrieval of archives at nearline speeds. Lattus-M also offers much greater durability than traditional RAID offerings, including true self-healing and self-protection capabilities, and enables automatic multi-site protection without the need for replication. The result is a highly resilient, disaster tolerant, scalable archival repository that doesn't need to be backed up;
· StorNext M660 which delivers the high-performance and flexibility of the StorNext File System in a pre-configured metadata appliance that enables collaboration across the entire workflow from ingest to delivery and archive; and
· StorNext QD6000 disk array, provides high-performance primary online storage optimised for StorNext environments.