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8 • Storage Solutions • March 2013 STORAGE SOLUTIONS Bring On Your Big Data! www.getstrongbox.com Visit us in booth #SL7627 at the NAB Show! StrongBox is a powerful archive solution, purpose-built to keep your fi les safe, accessible and at your fi ngertips. Files stored in this NAS target can be accessed from multiple editing stations or end users – no call to engineering required. Harness the cost-eff ectiveness of LTFS, empowering faster, more seamless workfl ows. Spend more time creating - less time managing data. ® Shared Storage for Your Long -Term Archive. S Y S T E M S , I N C . S Y S T E M S , I N C . S Y S T E M S , I N C . Winner of the 2012 Hollywood Post Alliance Engineering Excellence Award ity, "great" price point and green efficiencies. "We've man- aged to replace 700TB of legacy storage with 1.426PB of NetApp storage while keeping the power load the same. That's significant. We were at the limits of power we could get from the Department of Water & Power, but by invest- ing in NetApp storage solutions we became more power efficient. That's a big deal." PAPER ROUTE PRODUCTIONS Reality programming is the specialty of Paper Route Pro- ductions (www.paperrouteproductions.com) in Pearl River, NY, and its current show offerings have a decidedly north- ern accent. The company just wrapped season one of Buy- ing Alaska, about real estate with northern exposures, and is shooting and posting season two of Yukon Men, about sur- vival in remote outposts. They air on Destination America and Discovery, respectively. To handle post workflow for the series Paper Route has 15 edit bays at its Pearl River headquarters. They use soft- ware from Adobe, Apple and Avid, and all pull from the same source material on Evo shared storage. The company sports three SNS Evo shared storage solu- tions with a total capacity of 80TB. A New York City-based office is slated to open soon with Avid Media Composers on board. Two of the Evo servers were installed before post pro- duction supervisor Joe McFadden joined Paper Route. "They were selected for their affordability and easy expan- sion," he says. "When I first arrived our storage was about half this size. Using the expansion bays, we were able to double storage space by adding a single chassis and to- day's larger hard drives." The run 'n' gun style of image capture for Yukon Men con- sumes a big chunk of the Evo servers. "A season's worth of raw footage probably takes up 24TB," McFadden says. Assets stay native XDCAM for editorial "so our band- width isn't huge — that's why the iSCSI protocol is work- ing for us. Since we don't need the higher bandwidth of Fibre, we were able to create a high-performance SAN using the cheaper Ethernet. Even without Fibre, the Evos have enough bandwidth to handle multiple streams of Avid DNxHD." The New York City facility will not only be installing a ros- ter of Avids but also the latest version Evo server with Avid Bin sharing capabilities. "We haven't needed Bin sharing in the past, but it will be very useful for our new Avids," notes McFadden. "Not too many storage solutions support that function besides Avid's own Isis and Unity." He says that the ability to continue using the company's existing CAT 6 network has been extremely convenient. "A story producer can come in to view footage, hook up their laptop and access the network," he reports. In addition, with "the Evos' SAN management software, SANmp, there is no need for a metadata controller, and you can manage read/ write privileges with the click of a button." NFGTV Content creator NFGTV (www.nfgtv.com) is based in New York City where it produces and posts the reality se- ries Love & Hip Hop, now in its third season on VH1; the spin off Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta; and Taking Atlanta, which is cur- rently in production and will air on Bravo. The company boasts 48 edit stations, which are a mix of Avid Media Composers and Apple Final Cut Pro 7 systems. When technical director Brian Douglass came on board a Paper Route, which has 15 edit bays, just wrapped Selling Alaska for Destination America. Storage Supplement 2013RAV10FINAL READ.indd 8 2/28/13 10:33 AM