Long-term data storage company Daystrom recently adopted solutions from Nexenta, a Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance partner, as it completed archiving production on a new Spike Lee film. Daystrom is now using Nexenta’s software-defined platform to ensure preservation of media in multiple formats, so that it can be archived and played back at the highest possible quality.
Lee raised more than $1.5 million via Kickstarter to support the project, called “The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint.” The film was fast-tracked for shooting over a period of only 18 days, and producers needed a way to rapidly but securely archive enormous amounts of audio and video. Nearly 3TB of raw footage was being generated each day.
To solve the problem, Daystrom implemented a storage architecture based on NexentaStor, a highly scalable, software-defined solution optimized for virtualization and cloud storage. Users can easily add capacity to network attached storage appliances that are part of a NexentaStor setup. On top of that, it was possible for Daystrom to combine NexentaStor with linear tape-open systems for redundant backups.
“Daystrom turned to Nexenta to provide a secure self-healing storage file and backup system immune from silent data corruption and simplified disk management [through] either a command line or graphical user interface which are standard features of the NexentaStor SAN/NAS storage operating system,” stated Stephen Cohen, senior solutions architect at Daystrom. “Nexenta provided a validated copy on write and checksum ensuring the highest levels of reliability and data integrity in both archiving and playback.”
Daystrom’s decision to go with NexentaStor comes at a key moment, as the film industry is placing more emphasis on long-term archiving. Software-only solutions will be an integral part of the scale-out architectures that companies are implementing to more rapidly add storage with minimal hassle.
