National Broadcasting Network of Indonesia Relies on Stornext For
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CASE STUDY National Broadcasting Network of Indonesia Relies on StorNext for Accelerated Workflow and Large-scale Archiving When Indonesian broadcast pioneer TVRI needed to upgrade its storage systems across its 29 regional broadcast centers, it standardized on Quantum’s StorNext shared storage and data management solution. The result—faster workflows, improved collaboration, and secure, long-term data protection. StorNext gave us exactly what we needed— storage and software for high-performance “collaboration that will support our digital content management, and an archiving capability that will let us meet our requirement to store digital assets for the foreseeable future. Hari Setiya SAB. MAB. TVRI FEATURED PRODUCTS ” SOLUTION OVERVIEW Located in Senayan, Central Jakarta, Television HIGHLY DISTRIBUTED NETWORK for the Republic of Indonesia (TVRI) is the public CREATES UNIQUE CHALLENGES ∙ StorNext® shared storage and data management solution broadcasting network for this immense island With its motto, “the national unifying channel,” ∙ StorNext QXS™ RAID arrays nation, and is the country’s oldest television TVRI fulfills its responsibility by providing ∙ StorNext AEL Archive libraries resource. Supporting broadcasting operations programming that presents elements of ∙ Brocade Fibre Channel switches in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous politics and culture that affect everyone. KEY BENEFITS nation, presents a unique set of challenges. The At the same time, the company is charged ∙ High-performance file sharing combined area of the country, counting both land with preserving the diversity of the nation by accelerates content production by and sea, is nearly three-quarters of a million providing broadcasting operations designed enabling collaboration between editors. square miles, and the 17,000 separate islands to serve each of the different regional centers. ∙ Support for both SAN and LAN connectivity provides flexibility and keeps within its borders—including Java, Sumatra, As a result, TVRI maintains both a central costs low. Bali, and Sulawesi—contain approximately broadcast operations center in Jakarta, the ∙ Flexible scalability across different storage types allows the system to 300 distinct ethnic groups speaking more than nation’s capital, and 29 separate regional grow economically to accommodate future needs. 700 different languages and major dialects in branches, which produce and air their own ∙ Automated archiving provides addition to the national language. original programming. In fact, the charter for a large-scale repository to store each of the 29 regional stations mandates that assets, share them between users, Indonesia’s national motto, “Unity in Diversity,” and allow repurposing. each regional office give priority to creating and ∙ Extended Data Life Management underscores the importance that the country broadcasting local content, including news, (EDLM) automatically scans LTO media attaches to binding together its diverse for wear and writes content to new sports, and cultural programming. tapes for secure, long-term retention of population into a single national identity, key assets. while preserving the unique richness of its “Nowadays, the TVRI main broadcast center local traditions, languages, and customs. The really provides two distinctly different roles TVRI organization mirrors this challenging in the company,” explains Hari. “It creates combination of goals and dictates many of the and airs content of its own, and each station technical challenges facing the company. shares their own rich and varied programming www.quantum.com/customerstories among themselves.” For 50 years, TVRI has STORNEXT STREAMLINES COLLABORATION “ Service from Quantum continually upgraded its capabilities to keep Each TVRI site has a new StorNext system that and its partners in the up with advances in broadcasting technology. includes an Xcellis Workflow Director appliance region has been strong, The company successfully made the shift from and QXS primary storage. With StorNext, content a videotape-based workflow to file-based can be shared between editors using either the and we have confidence production and expanded its networks to allow high-speed SAN interface or LAN-based clients. it will support us as we the distributed sites to share content. In 2016, StorNext allows users to access and work on carry out our plan of TVRI decided to make another major upgrade. the same files simultaneously—dramatically extending StorNext over streamlining workflows and decreasing the time COLLABORATION AND PRESERVATION time to all of our regional needed to get content ready for broadcast or KEY GOALS FOR NEW SYSTEM broadcast centers.” uploaded to the company’s web-based platforms. “We had two major goals in mind as we Hari Setiya, SAB. MAB. planned our latest expansion,” explains Hari. The new StorNext system also automates and TVRI “The first was to increase collaboration— simplifies the process of copying files to the allowing editors in each broadcast and central repository. At each regional broadcast production center to share content among center, the IT group configures dual-site themselves, and enable faster and more sharing storage. Each site is able to access and efficient sharing between locations. The retrieve content from the primary location, or second was to create a large secure, scalable vice versa, for data consolidation. archive capability.” The archive would allow AEL ARCHIVE PROVIDES SECURE, the company to preserve all the content LONG-TERM RETENTION created across all sites in a central location— The archiving component of the new TVRI providing an important historical record and system is located in the main broadcast allowing TVRI to easily reuse existing content. center. A StorNext AEL500 LTO tape library SEARCH LEADS TO STORNEXT stores copies of content shared from the SCALE-OUT STORAGE regional offices, preserving it for future To determine the best system for its needs, use such as repurposing to create new the TVRI team contacted the leading programming for regional stations. StorNext international companies that provide media and AEL Archives are designed with multiple entertainment storage. The new system would features to provide secure, extended file need to support TVRI’s overall long-term goals, retention. Files are moved automatically to the provide reliable regional service and support, archive based on StorNext policies. Options and easily integrate with the company’s existing for creating multiple copies on different infrastructure and production tools. TVRI media provide DR protection, and duplicate decided to standardize on Quantum StorNext file sets are retained in off-site locations. solutions. “StorNext gave us exactly what AEL libraries are easy to scale using an we needed—storage and software for high- economical, capacity-on-demand model that performance collaboration that will support our allows existing physical slots to be licensed digital content management, and an archiving and enabled when they are needed. capability that will let us meet our requirement TVRI’s AEL library also includes a feature to store digital assets for the foreseeable future,” specifically designed to preserve data says Hari. indefinitely—Extended Data Life Management (EDLM). EDLM periodically inserts media www.quantum.com/customerstories stored in the library into a dedicated ABOUT TVRI drive that reads the content and scans Founded in 1963, TVRI is the the media to identify signs of wear. If public broadcasting network for the number of recoverable errors on the the nation of Indonesia, and is tape reaches a predefined threshold, the the country’s oldest television contents are automatically written to new resource. Its mission is to use media to keep the contents safe. EDLM broadcasting as a unifying force supports migration of assets to new, more for the entire nation. Its 29 advanced generations of media to provide regional broadcasting centers an effective long-term retention strategy. provide a wide spectrum of educational, cultural, and “We view the contents from our regional entertainment programming broadcast centers as irreplaceable that is ethical, balanced, and cultural assets,” says Hari. informative, and furthers the nation’s motto—Unity in Diversity—by preserving and celebrating the full range of Indonesia’s rich, vibrant, multi- cultural heritage. Today, TVRI is pioneering the revolutionary transition from an analog to digital broadcast system in Indonesia. ABOUT QUANTUM Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out tiered storage, archive, and data protection. The company’s StorNext® platform powers modern high- performance workflows, enabling seamless, 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 have the end-to-end storage platform they need to manage assets from ingest through finishing and into delivery and long-term preservation. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories-mediaent. www.quantum.com ©2017 Quantum Corporation. All rights reserved. CS00442A-v01.