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STORAGE SOLUTIONS MAR/APR 2020 STORAGE DEMAND IN POST PRODUCTION Post production storage demand is increasing with more multi-camera 360-degree projects, higher resolu- tions, more bits per frame and higher frame rates. This drives overall storage requirements as shown in "Figure 3". Companies providing storage systems for local storage for M&E applications include G-Tech (WDC), LaCie (Seagate), OWC, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba. Companies providing storage systems and software for network storage (besides those mentioned above) include AIC, Asustor, Avid, CineRAID, DDP, Facilis, Magstor, Open Drives, Pixit Media, Promise, QNAP, Rocstor, Stardom and TrueNAS. Figure 3: Post production storage capacity annual demand There continues to be demand for low latency local storage, particularly in smaller facilities, with increased demand for network storage and strong growth in cloud storage enabling remote video collaboration projects and cloud-based editing. The cloud storage will be in a combination of private clouds and public cloud infrastructure. The industry is gradually getting more comfortable with cloud storage. STORAGE FOR ARCHIVING Long term storage of video content requires inexpen- sive content storage. However, today archived content is accessed more readily than older passive archives, often offline in cold storage facilities. For this reason, many archives are now "active archives" that provide lower latency archived content access. The ultimate storage for these active archives will be on magnetic tape (mostly LTO), optical discs and hard disk drives. Although there is still a considerable amount of older video content that has not been digitized, much of the content that will be digitized has been or will be in the next few years. For this reason, future archive growth will be driven by archiving of new video con- tent as shown in "Figure 4" (See next page). The Sur This des exp pro con cre Pro stay Ava Rep This refe ana pro and dem con cap (inc Find stor e 2020 Dig rvey Link: h s survey is signed to pectations f duction, d nversion an ate the 2 ofessional M y open unti ailable now port s updated erence doc alysis of t fessional m d media tre mand in c ntent archiv pacity and cluding obje d out mor rage-for-me ital Storag https://www intended f determine for the capt istribution nd preserva 020 Coug Media and E l May 15, 2 w: The 201 and expan cument on he role of media and nds and pr content cap ving with 6 revenue pr ect storage re and ord edia-and-en ge in Media w.surveymo for media a e the ind ture and cre of content ation. The hlin Assoc Entertainm 2020. 19 Digital S ded report this topic. f digital st entertainm rojections a pture, post 63 tables rojections i ), real-time der at: h ntertainmen a & Enterta onkey.com/r and enterta dustry's di eation of ra t, digital a results of ciates repo ent (out in Storage in is the fiftee . It provid torage in ment. Capa are given ou t-production and 128 f include dire e as well as https://tomc nt-report/. ainment Su r/MWXL22N inment pro gital stora aw content, rchiving as this survey ort on Dig June 2020 Media and enth annua des 253 pa all aspect acity, reven ut to 2024 f n, content figures. ect attache s near-line coughlin.co urvey N ofessionals age needs , editing an s well as y will be us gital Storag 0). The surv d Entertain al compreh ages of in ts of world nue, perform for digital s distributio Industry s ed storage, network st m/product/d and is s and nd post digital sed to ge for vey will nment ensive n-depth d-wide mance storage n and storage cloud torage. digital-