Broadcast Storage Solutions
Introduction
Storage needs and costs continue to spiral upward, even as data storage becomes less expensive. Does this paradox plague your broadcast operation? Although the introduction of IT systems was supposed to make things easier, each new system has unique requirements that compound annually and ultimately may not provide an ability to share the resources with other applications, systems and users.
Feeling as if you are marooned on an island of storage?
CUC can help.. More than just a data storage system integrator trying to make their products fit into the broadcast market, the CUC team are broadcast industry veterans. We provide media asset management and shared digital video storage for use by all departments within the broadcast plant including graphics, On Air, News and production. CUC subsystems seamlessly integrate with all the major production systems including Apple, Avid; automation systems including Crispin, Harris, Sundance; and On Air servers including GrassValley, Leitch, Omneon and more.
- Save thousands of dollars. Move digital content off of expensive video servers and into our cost-efficient archiving system.
- Store millions of programs. Transfer thousands of hours of digital video to a shared digital archive for streamlined, secure storage.
- Keep digital content at your fingertips. Choose your own criteria for organizing digital video storage in your archive.
- Ease the transition from archive to play. Save money using CUC archival storage that is compatible with your video and automation servers.
Click here for more information about CUC's media asset management and shared storage solutions that will revolutionize the way you store and retrieve video.
OmniSAN
Are you looking for an affordable SAN-based storage solution that supports work-group collaboration? OmniSAN provides transparent and reliable networked shared storage that can fuel the most creative environments while greatly reducing the cost of managing mission-critical resources. Supporting and available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS/X clients, OmniSAN provides true file sharing, native OS file system and access rights management, and storage virtualization for Avid®, File Sequence OptimizerTM and Apple Final Cut Studio while providing a dynamic metadata master arbitration model and seamless integration with existing LAN networks. OmniSAN is the perfect complement to an Avid or Mac video-editing workstation, providing the fast, consistent performance required for video post-production. OmniSAN delivers enough bandwidth for working in high-definition (HD) video or supporting multiple streams of uncompressed standard-definition (SD) video with real-time effects. For example, a 10.5TB OmniSAN configuration can hold nearly 25 hours of protected RAID 5 footage, even when used for editing in uncompressed HD 1080i. Each OmniSAN/B subsystem includes cutting-edge SATA-II RAID storage, packaged in a variety of convenient rack-mount configurations, along with an expandable, stackable, rack-mountable 4Gbit fibre-channel switch and client fibre-channel host adaptor. A web-based GUI enables basic switch setup to advanced zoning and extended distance configuration, making OmniSAN deployment a snap. Installation is a three-step, point-and-click process, with self-configuring switch ports that automatically adjust to 4Gb or 2Gb device speeds. Click here for more information.
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OmniLib
The new OmniLIB/X812 offers the most cost-effective and scalable LTO4 tape automation subsystem for archival storage available today. Starting at 295 tape slots offering 236TB of storage with the ability to scale up to 2.2Petabytes, the new OmniLIB/X812 enables customers to buy the storage they need today while assuring future subsystem expansion as their data grows. Each OmniLIB/X812 holds up to twelve LTO 4 tape drives, delivering data throughput rates of over 5 terabytes per hour. With the addition of either a 120 slot cartridge expansion pod or a complete expansion chassis that holds an additional 535 tapes in just 5.3 square feet of floor space, the OmniLIB/X812 is an ideal choice for any broadcast asset management archival storage application. For additional information on how the OmniLIB/X812 can significantly reduce your overall broadcast facility costs, click here.
OmniDR
Plug-and-Play Disaster Recovery Appliance
Few broadcast organizations are actually prepared for a catastrophic total system failure where not only a data loss may be experienced, but the entire operating system, applications, settings, patches and more are lost, reducing their system to "bare metal" while the clock ticks away costly downtime minutes. Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) is often considered a supplemental layer of protection that can help insulate an organization against unnecessary downtime. While file-by-file backup and restore software is excellent at protecting against data loss, there is an inherent disadvantage in being able to quickly return an unbootable machine to a fully operational state.
CUC Broadcast's new OmniDR disaster recovery appliances are a perfect addition to any Broadcast or IT organization looking to ensure fast, consistent system recovery time objectives for a wide variety of servers, clients and workstations. A single OmniDR appliance provides advanced data protection that allows restoration of failed systems without the need to reformat hard drives, re-load an operating system, device drivers, or any of the applications and databases. An OmniDR appliance can even restore to a new hardware platform that may not match the original system configuration (certain configuration restrictions may apply). Click here for more information.
Success Stories
As Washington?s premier Public Affairs Network station, TVW was faced with a dilemma on how to
seamlessly archive thousands of hours of video while maintaining the ability to both retrieve for
playout and recording of individual customer-requested on-demand video segments. TVW turned to CUC
Broadcast as their video asset archival storage partner.
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