In the media and entertainment industry, the amount of content continues to soar. Video production is one area that has a unique set of needs, specifically in post-production workflows which encompass creative project data that involves editing, music, motion graphics, animation, color correction, and sound mixing. Media companies are struggling with the fact that network storage, often upwards of 100s of terabytes of data or more, continually fails to keep up with the demands in production workflows.
With over 80 on-prem workers and a constant rotation of offsite staff and freelancers, John McNeil Studio was looking for a cloud-based solution that would allow them to share on-prem files across a distributed workforce. The legacy SAN was unable to keep up with these business demands. JMS workers had to access data on-prem, which meant they could not do any post-production work off-site or remotely. Also, Dropbox was being used to help offload the use of an expensive SAN for files that didn’t require high performance. This introduced an additional cost and a separate process, which was sometimes cumbersome for users. Being able to edit easily and share large data files remotely is integral to the future of their workflow.
