In Broadcast - CABSAT 2018 - 49

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www.inbroadcast.com | CABSAT InShow Guide | 14 - 16 January 2018

EndemolShine Australia
Deploys DDP IP SAN Storage
The creator of some of Australia's largest television shows EndemolShine
Australia is using a DDP solution to augment its storage requirements...

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ndemolShine Australia creates
many
well-known
television
programmes, such as The Biggest
Loser, Gogglebox, and Australian
Ninja Warrior, the company has lots
of editors, lots of media, and is always
under pressure to get programmes to
air quickly.
Back in 2013, EndemolShine
Australia started looking at DDP as
a solution to augment its existing
Avid ISIS storage investment. Not
a decision to be taken lightly, in
2015, the company took delivery
of DDP's two-chassis system and
had production work rolling off it
less than two weeks later. Over 30
editing, audio and graphics stations all
connect to the DDP across the existing
infrastructure.
The primary factors in EndemolShine
Australia's decision were:
*	 Bulk shared storage at
a competitive price;
*	 Seamless use from the Avid Media
Composer platform (including the
ability to use alongside ISIS);
*	 Simple bolt-on JBOD expansion;
*	 Simple infrastructure
requirements and;
*	 Compatibility with other
applications.

"Our aim is to give
clients like EndemolShine
the edge, while making
their jobs easier"
Elvin Jasarevic, DDP

High resolution workhorse
EndemolShine Australia uses a DDP
solution for high-resolution media
storage and playback, mastering
directly from the shared volumes.
A real workhorse with minimal
management - it can handle multiple
productions with appropriate security,
all workspaces across a production
can share capacity without having to
constantly re-allocate (or can be set
on a fixed quota), and Archiware P5
integrates directly to ensure volumes
are always backed up externally for
security.
Constant use
Ben Trinder from EndemolShine
Australia said: "We've had the DDP
in use 24x7 since the day it went in,
never had a hardware failure and
it has gone over 12 months without
even a reboot. Client software just
works - appears as native Avid storage
simultaneous with ISIS workspaces,
performs well with Resolve and Adobe
CC and doesn't need complex driver or
networking setups.
"With 120TB of DDP capacity that
constantly gets filled and flushed,
it is a robust system that meets our
ever-changing requirements. ESA

are looking to move up to the DDP
v4/5 software release to add more
functionality/performance to our
existing investment."
Development pledge
Elvin Jasarevic, Director of DDP Asia
& Middle East, said: "We are incredibly
happy that EndemolShine is using DDP
shared storage to produce some of the
most popular content for television
in Australia. Success like this makes
us more committed than ever to
developing our software even further.
"With DDP V4 and the upcoming V5
software, which allows SSD caching,
Load Balancing, Instant Replication
and other 'DDP only' features like
'Folder Volumes with Quota' and
Workflow Manager, our aim is to give
clients like EndemolShine the edge,
while making their jobs easier," added
Jasarevic.

single namespace.
It all comes from one box, on one
Ethernet network.
An IP-SAN based solution allows full
project and file level based sharing,
it uses almost 100% of the available
Ethernet bandwidth.
Dedicated to meeting the demands
of film, video and audio users, DDP
provides a simple and effective
storage solution.
www.ddpsan.asia

Dynamic Drive Pool
A multi-award winning shared
storage system, DDP - Dynamic Drive
Pool - is available with SSD caching,
load balancing and automatic data
redistribution, as well as a range of
additional advantages including linear
bandwidth scaling, mirroring and

DDP IP SAN Storage for
EndemolShine Australia
http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.ddpsan.asia
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