In Broadcast - CABSAT 2018 - 49
49 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... E 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