Building a Total Content Management Lifecycle
Quantum StorNext and Reach Engine
Modern content management and monetization workflows are evolving quickly. Broadcast,
owned-content, sports and enterprise video need an adaptable and flexible content
management workflow environment.
Automating all phases of media and content management, from ingest through transformation,
delivery, archive and retrieval across multiple tiers of content optimized storage delivers
efficiency, productivity and control.
Reach Engine and Quantum have integrated the Reach Engine platform with Quantum’s
StorNext® solutions to simplify the deployment and lower the cost of managing video, audio
and rich media assets across the enterprise. Both companies have developed a solution bundle
designed to scale from as small as tens of thousands of assets to millions across the entire
workflow, whether it be local or distributed.
HIGH THROUGHPUT VIDEO PROCESSING
Reach Engine is the leading value solution for tiered media production services to workgroup,
medium-to-large enterprise, and cloud service customers. Reach Engine offers the greatest
value and pricing at each stage in the production process—whether your business requires
end-to-end workflows or is delivering a part of the value chain in the media cycle. Reach Engine
is integrated with Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere workflows,
enabling content editors to choose to receive media files in the format they desire. Users can
work remotely, on low-res proxies, searching and accessing highlights (partial files) based on
timecodes from the centralized storage and archive. The combined solution has been proven to
scale to PBs of data in rapid, changing catalogues like Ultimate Fighting Championship®.
Quantum’s StorNext workflow storage solutions support the industry’s largest number
of operating environments (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X), making sure the wide variety of
applications within your workflow are “future-proof”. Policies can be set to relocate content on
the proper tier of storage—from SSD for high throughput transcodes, to fast fibre channel disk
for editing, to low-cost disk or LTO tape for archive. StorNext Pro Solutions provide a complete,
high-performance shared storage solution built to support high-throughput media workflows
from ingest all the way to archive.
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SOLUTION PROFILE
The combined Reach Engine and Quantum
solution is ideal for:
• Sports video franchises
• Cutting-edge Fortune 500 enterprises
• Education, retailers, and other emerging
media markets
• Repurposing and monetizing content
on-demand across geographically
distributed locations
• Content producers looking to integrate
cloud-based object storage options
in the near future
• Managing large archives of content
Benefits
• Quick turnaround of assets across
geographically dispersed workflow
• Reference architecture
eliminates guesswork
• Storage infrastructure from one vendor
eliminates compatibility challenges
• Architected to take advantage of archive
and retrieval across wide area storage
• Unified, end-to-end content production;
integrated enterprise search across
the archive
• Multi-platform support enables multiple
applications to write and retrieve content
• Workflow engine eases production;
manages tasks, automates processes
• Highly configurable, scalable,
and well-proven
• Pre-defined recommended configurations
based on StorNext appliances reduces costs
SOLUTION BRIEF
AUTOMATED AND DISTRIBUTED CONTENT REPURPOSING
The Reach Engine user interface is a welcome change from traditional MAMs, with video
stills prominent graphically, helping content professionals move from a file-based workflow
to true media-based workflows. Content retrieval is made easy through the Reach Engine’s
integration with StorNext’s Partial File Retrieval (PFR) APIs—providing the ability to pull back
segments of large, full-length video content based on timecodes. This enables secondary,
less-expensive disk or LTO tape tiers to be part of an active and flexible workflow and not just
some dormant vault.
The StorNext AEL Archive delivers a reliable, self-monitoring and self-healing, high-capacity
archive intended for the long-term storage of nearline content. Quantum is the only vendor
in the industry that offers the integration of a tape library and policy-based tape data integrity
checking, giving customers the additional assurance of knowing that the data on their tapes
is being tested and validated on a continuous and ongoing basis. And the unique slot-based
pricing model preserves your investment, effectively doubling your capacity with no additional
software license fees when moving from LTO-5 to LTO-6 tape standard technology.
Base Configuration - Components
The base configuration environment includes:
• Reach Engine Studio
• StorNext Pro Studio solution, providing:
-- Xcellis™ Workflow Director
-- StorNext QXS-412 Disk Storage
-- Optional StorNext AEL500 Tape Archive
This base configuration provides:
• An appliance-based storage management environment for your Reach Engine Studio
• 48TB usable space of local, performance disk for your media library
• A library supporting the Reach Engine tiered storage capabilities starting with 50TB of active tape
capacity, expandable to over 1PB
Expansion Options:
THE REACH ENGINE ADVANTAGE
Reach Engine is a media production
software solution providing media asset
management and content distribution
services that is tailored to work in
distributed or cloud-based environments.
It provides a web-based user experience,
allowing the browsing of assets and
triggering of workflows from any location,
regardless of the location of the storage.
Reach Engine can help you speed and
extend your monetization cycle by
simplifying the ability to select assets from
your extensive library, repurpose these
assets quickly, and distribute them in the
format required by your partners
or customers.
THE STORNEXT ADVANTAGE
In addition to providing a local archive
for Reach Engine, StorNext 5 is a nextgeneration storage platform that provides
a high-performance shared storage pool
to other media applications running on
multiple platforms. Content is held on
the most appropriate disk and tape tier,
freeing up valuable high-performance
disk and providing cost-effective longterm storage.
Whether you are ready now, or planning on growing in the future, Reach Engine and Quantum are ready
to grow with you using:
• Expanded working capacity with additional drive enclosures. Additional controllers can be added
with additional enclosures for up to 318TB (384TB raw)
• Expanded bandwidth with additional disk arrays. QXS-1200 arrays can add additional bandwidth for
single stream performance up to 5.2GB aggregate performance
• Expanded archive capacity up to 21PB of active vault with the AEL6000 Tape Archive
• Additional attached SAN and network workstations can be added to up to 1500 total clients
Transcoding server, application server, and streaming server are not provided in the base configuration.
To contact your local sales office, please visit www.stornext.com
ABOUT QUANTUM
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out storage, archive and data protection. The company’s StorNext® 5 platform
powers modern high-performance workflows, enabling fluid, real-time collaboration and keeping content readily
accessible for future use and re-monetization. More than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address
their most demanding content workflow needs, including top studios, major broadcasters and cutting-edge content
creators. With Quantum, customers can Be Certain™ they have the end-to-end storage foundation they need to manage
assets from ingest through finishing, and into delivery and long-term preservation. See how at www.stornext.com.
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