Many of our clients already own Enterprise Class storage systems like NetApp & Isilon. These high performance systems, when set up right, can have storage space allocated to a creative team. The problem is, creative teams are the most bandwidth, storage & resource intensive departments in your entire company. And soon both the IT and the creative users are unhappy with the situation.
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ProMAX |
Enterprise Storage |
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High Performance Shared Storage
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Yes
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Yes
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Integrates with Existing Users / Domains
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Yes
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Yes
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Creative Application Support
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Yes
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Limited
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Vendor Support for the Creative Team
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Yes
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No
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100% Performance Segmentation
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Yes
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No
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Creative Team front end application
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Yes
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No
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Software to help users properly manage media
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Yes
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No
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Cost Effective Growth
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Yes
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Not Usually
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A seasoned IT expert can build a high performance NAS to achieve incredible performance. The problem comes when the creative team fills the storage and needs to start managing media, this is the Shared Storage trap→. To make it even worse, if you build it, it's your responsibility to support it, forever.
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ProMAX |
Custom NAS |
| High Performance Shared Storage | Yes | Yes |
| Integrates with existing users & domain | Yes | Yes |
| Creative Application Support | Yes | No |
| Responsible for Success | ProMAX | You |
| Estimated man-hours from IT | 8 hrs to launch, 2 hrs per quarter for support | 60+ hrs to launch, 20+ hrs per quarter for support |
| Helps Creative Team manage media better | Yes | No |
| Grows beyond storage | Yes | No |
As with many technology decisions --- 'It can work' and the 'It's the right solution' are often two different things.
Efficiency requires the right tools. Few creatives teams have the expertise or desire to manage complex storage environments. Few IT teams want to be pulled into figuring out why 'video is stuttering on the network system'.
Equip your team with a future-proof solution, not a band-aid for today's problem.
No one requires more performance & storage than creative teams. Nothing reduces infrastructural risk like having the right solution for the right problem.
What seems like a lot of storage now fills up quickly with any creative team. You can bet that whatever storage is given will be full faster than anyone anticipated. So give your team the solutions that let them not only manage their media and storage better, but a solution that can easily grow when you need to add another 100TB.
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