Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/283517
6 • Storage Solutions • March 2013 STORAGE SOLUTIONS BRINGS TV Cologne, Germany-based Brings TV (www.bringstv.de) provides a mobile editing truck and post production fly packs for live events, primarily sports and often European football such as the UEFA Champions League, Germany's Bundesliga, European Championship Football and the FIFA World Cup. Recently, company head Ralf Brings was exploring a new storage solution that would give him the high per- formance and additional bandwidth he needs to record multiple HD live streams and edit sports news packages for television while he is ingesting data. He wraps finished football reports for broadcast just minutes after matches end and player interviews are conducted. For example, Brings delivers a two-minute news clip of a UEFA Cham- pions League match with voiceover 10 to 20 minutes after the game finishes. "I record up to four HD streams and edit from them maybe eight seconds behind realtime," he explains. "So I need very large bandwidth. I was looking for a new so- lution and another company in Cologne told me to try the brand new T-Box from Tiger Technology (www.tiger- technology.com). I saw it and did a 24-hour live test with four to six live HD streams and was quite impressed by its quality, size and performance." Tiger Technology's T-Box is a SAN solution and digital storage hub designed to smooth complex workflows and take 1Gb/10Gb ethernet as well as 8Gb/16Gb fibre channel to a new level of performance and simplicity. Brings TV invested in a 32TB T-Box, which occupies just 3U — a small footprint compared to other 32TB systems and ideal for the limited space available in the truck. "The quality of construction of T-Box is absolutely amazing," he says. He's especially pleased with the steel mounting brack- ets, which provide the stability he needs in a mobile post facility. Brings TV's T-Box has nine connections for four Avid Me- dia Composer 7.03 clients, two digitizing stations for live material and several laptops, which handle media man- agement. Brings records the normal camera angles from the game's national or international director, isolates the camera angles, and switches channels to capture post- game interviews. If the EVS live slo-mo system is very busy he sometimes plays out content directly to air from T-Box. Voiceover is recorded in the truck, the package is finished and Brings TV meets another rapid broadcast deadline. He typically keeps all material for a project online un- til the end of production; winter sports, such as skiing, and UEFA Champions League material is stored online all season. Brings is planning to build a twin mobile truck and notes that his T-Box can connect as many clients as capacity will allow since Tiger Technology does not charge customers on a per-seat basis. "With other solutions, you need to buy individual licenses," he notes. "With T-Box I can just plug in new clients and download the client management soft- ware." He expects 32TBs to continue to be sufficient for his needs but says, "we can always grow T-Box with larger drives or add an expansion chassis." Tiger Technology offers 24/7 phone and email support for all of its products, a must for Brings, who can't afford one second of downtime. BUDDHA JONES Hollywood-based Buddha Jones (www.buddha-jones. com) is an entertainment mar- keting and creative content company with extensive in- house post production capa- bilities. An all-Mac house, Buddha Jones boasts 50 edit bays run- ning Avid Media Compos- er, three Avid Symphony suites, a DaVinci Resolve bay and an Avid Pro Tools 5.1 sur- round mixing room. A pair of Avid ISIS servers is used for of- fline editing; four Facilis TerraBlock 24D servers, with 192TBs of total raw storage, are new additions for online conform- ing (www.facilis.com). Buddha Jones acquired the TerraBlock servers af- ter "greatly increasing our creative content output," says head of IT Kyle Gascho. It's not uncommon for Buddha Jones to have 60 projects in-house at a time, he reports. Among recent creative content credits are behind-the- scenes and EPK material for the Blu-ray release of Man of Steel, and behind-the-scenes footage and interviews for the Blu-ray release of Gravity. Expanding the amount of creative content Buddha Jones is producing "required us to come up with a more collab- www.promax.com sales@promax.com (800) 977-6629 ARCHIVE. RENDER. SEARCH. TRANSCODE. SHARE. #SL5422 All on the world's most advanced Shared Storage System. buddha Jones in hollywood recently upgraded its storage infrastructure with facilis' terrablock.