Ciner Media Group’s Precious Media Assets are Archived and Protected on EonStor GS High-Density Dual Controller Unified Storage System

Ciner Media Group’s Precious Media Assets are Archived and Protected on EonStor GS High-Density Dual Controller Unified Storage System

Turkish media conglomerate Ciner Media Group generates huge amounts of audio-visual data on daily basis. It is important to have multiple copies of the content for providing broadcasting service continuity even in disaster circumstances. Moreover, previously created media content could be used as content source and an archive resource for ongoing and future projects.

Such a demanding environment inevitably results with the issue of insufficient storage capacity. So, for archiving and media workflow continuity, a robust and high performance nearline storage system with redundancy and ease of future capacity expansion features was required.

Challenges

The media company was looking for a storage solution with enough capacity and expandability capabilities for linearly increasing amounts of audio-visual data to overcome the following challenges:

• Existing main storage ran out of capacity
• Limited rack space required high-density storage solution populated with high capacity drives to provide PB-level capacity
• For business continuity, a crucial requirement was to deploy redundant data backup solution

Solution

Ciner Media Group purchased Infortrend storage EonStor GS 3060R, JB 3060RL JBOD expansion enclosure, 120 units of 3.5" SAS 12Gb/s enterprise HDD with 12TB capacity each, EonStor GS converged host board with 4 x 10GbE SFP+ ports, and advanced local replication license.

With 1.44PB of raw capacity, Infortrend solution fully satisfied the media company’s requirements of massive and ever-growing amounts of PB-level content archive and management.

Infortrend’s robust hardware RAID assured data protection and integrity, while redundant hardware design with dual controllers ensured continuous service with no SPOF (no Single Point of Failure).

Why Infortrend

• Great price/performance ratio
• Massive capacity for large-size media files
• High-density 4U 60-bay form factor ideally fitted to limited rack space in data center
• Redundancy features to ensure continuous workflow and data protection
• Easy management and operation
• Positive experience with local system integrator Bilgipark that provides good customer service and technical support