Southeastern University’s Communications Department state-of-the-art HD facility provides students with hands-on training in broadcasting, journalism, public relations, film production and the theatre. The facilities are also used to produce a range of promotional videos, concerts and shows.
Their challenge was keeping media available for editorial and archiving, on a budget. The upgrade to HD increased data at least six fold. The University also needed to be able to keep content live and accessible for editorial via shared storage, and somewhere to safely store all of the material created in the department. However, they did not have the budget for a large, separate SAN, or the associated hardware and software technologies.
Power-Cache and Library24 LTO-6 systems are now at the heart of the workflow going, “way beyond just archiving – they play an important role in our overall data workflow too,” according to Ian Fritzche, Campus Engineer. He shares, “During my research, what surprised me about archiving was that most companies did not sell one complete off-the-shelf solution. I would have to pick-and-choose hardware and software from different companies, and quite frankly I didn’t have the time, nor the budget, for that. When I started looking at Cache-A I got another, more pleasant surprise – that their products combine RAID0 or RAID5 NAS capability with the latest LTO-6 generation storage, in one simple, expandable package that could grow with us.