StorageDNA

HP customer
case study
Leading digital
workow and archive
specialist deploys
a nearline storage
solution involving
HP LTO-5 Tape Drives
with LTFS software,
and an HP Tape
Library to speed
post-production
processes
Industry
Media and
entertainment
StorageDNA with HP LTO-5 and LTFS
based workow solution supports
voyage to the bottom of the sea
“We liked how HP quickly recognized the potential of our LTFS solution and
delivered helpful technical and business support while we moved to market.
Choosing HP as our LTO tape hardware partner proved a wise decision.
With over 150 solutions deployed, we nd the HP hardware oers excellent
performance and reliability.”
—Tridib Chakravarty, chief executive officer and president, StorageDNA
Objective
Deliver a reliable, high-performance LTO-5 with LTFS
tape platform to support a new le-based archive
workow solution
Approach
Required a cost-eective archive and retrieval
workow solution for the post-production specialist
processing footage of James Cameron’s DEEPSEA
CHALLENGE from Great Wight Expedition Films
IT improvements
• Provides a reliable, secure and scalable backup and
archiving platform, creating an expandable low-cost
nearline solution
• Oers a high-capacity storage medium with transfer
rates of over 500MB per second, accelerating
digital workows
• Eliminates manual procedures, fully automating the
conform process to decrease post-production times
• Performs intelligent restores and enables parallel
conform and disaster recovery capabilities, further
speeding workows
• Delivers a self-describing universal format with no
application dependencies, simplifying the backup
and archiving process
Business benets
• Reduces stock media, SAN storage and nearline disk
expenditure, lowering media costs per shoot
• Provides a cost-eective alternative to traditional
hard disk drives, optical disks and video tape,
lowering storage requirements
• Oers a high-performance archive and retrieval
workow solution, delivering ecient and cost-eective
production and post-production pipelines
• Safeguards business-critical content, preserving,
repurposing and monetizing valuable assets
Protecting digital content, the lifeblood of the media and
entertainment industry, is becoming more crucial than ever.
Current storage options can be expensive and dicult to
use, increasing production costs that are already soaring to
record levels. HP LTO tape’s unique benets enhanced by
new technologies such as the Linear Tape File System (LTFS),
enable it to evolve from its historical role as a backup medium
to a solution that addresses a broader set of storage goals
across media workows.
When director James Cameron required the services of Digital
Pictures to support his DEEPSEA CHALLENGE from Great
Wight Expedition Films, the post-production specialist chose
a nearline storage solution based on HP LTO-5 Ultrium
3000 Tape Drives, and an HP MSL 4048 Tape Library with
StorageDNA software to resolve the massive high-resolution
content handling requirements.