Empress and NetApp Joint Solution eMAM on NetApp storage: A complete media asset management solution

The Challenge access to high-resolution media for KEY FEATURES Video has become a strategic source of all authorized stakeholders. With an information, insights, and intelligence extensive toolset, API integrations, • Minimize staffing with automation for many businesses. With a growing and configuration options, eMAM can and a simple interface. easily provide completely integrated demand for video and improvements in • Reduce costs by optimizing storage video resolution, the volume and size workflows for archiving, collaborative tiers, types, and locations to meet of media assets are growing rapidly. editing, review and approval, publishing, current and future demands. and delivery. eMAM can quickly scale Media libraries are expanding and • Minimize risk with options for straining traditional media workflows. from a few to tens of thousands and disaster recovery. It is no longer enough just to store of users as needed, allowing your organization to be nimble and to • Accelerate collaboration by using video data. You also must be able proxy workflows. to quickly and easily edit, review, reduce the total cost of ownership. This transcode, and archive your media joint solution can be used with any or • Minimize processing, storage, and transmission costs. assets across geographic boundaries. all of the following NetApp systems. • Maximize the value of media assets FAS and All Flash FAS systems The Solution with federated search and reuse that run ONTAP across storage and archival pools. Empress Media Asset Management NetApp FAS and All Flash FAS (eMAM) and NetApp have partnered • Adaptively scale and grow as your systems lay the foundation for a Data organization’s needs change. to offer a complete media asset Fabric that enables seamless data management solution that lets your movement between on-premises, users locate, manage, and share private, and public clouds. NetApp SOLUTION COMPONENTS ® content across workgroups. NetApp ONTAP® software running on FAS and storage and data management solutions All Flash FAS systems provides higher • eMAM software simplify enterprise management for performance and is more robust than • NetApp FAS systems proxy, compressed, and uncompressed other scale-out NAS offerings for most video workflows. media workloads. The latest FAS9000 • NetApp All Flash FAS systems system scales to many gigabytes per • NetApp ONTAP software eMAM is a powerful media asset second of video bandwidth. The latest • NetApp E5600 Series management system that handles All Flash FAS systems offer 15TB storage systems the file-based workflows of modern solid state drives (SSDs) for cost- organizations from its web- or effective random I/O operations such • NetApp StorageGRID Webscale tablet-based interfaces. eMAM as broadcast news, transcoding, and manages original content across any visual effects rendering, all in a smaller combination of local storage systems, footprint. Both product lines provide storage tiers, archival systems, and always-on operations even during cloud-based systems by building upgrades and expansions. an online proxy library with secure and independently sized to provide operational and expansion flexibility. The system can tier content to digital tape or to Amazon Simple Storage Edit Service (Amazon S3) cloud storage

Collaborate to make full use of cloud economics while minimizing bandwidth charges. Transcode Ingest Share Additional features include self-healing data protection, policy-driven lifecycle management, and software-defined

Accelerate Store Archive Distribute storage deployments.

eMAM and NetApp

Single Pane of Glass Together, eMAM with NetApp storage and data management technology can lower costs by providing a variety of storage tiers, types, and locations to meet current and future demands. Automated, integrated workflows simplify management and reduce operating costs. Additional features,

DIAGRAM 1: A COMPLETE MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT SOLUTION THAT LETS USERS LOCATE, MANAGE, AND such as federated search across SHARE CONTENT ACROSS WORKGROUPS. THE JOINT SOLUTION CAN BE USED WITH NETAPP FAS AND ALL FLASH storage and archival pools and proxy SYSTEMS, NETAPP E5600 STORAGE SYSTEMS, AND NETAPP STORAGEGRID WEBSCALE. workflows, help improve productivity and collaboration. E5600 storage systems the need for hot or cold spares. The NetApp E-Series high-performance use of flash in hybrid arrays optimizes The combined solution also offers SAN storage is engineered for extreme support for ancillary transcoding and strong security features to protect your video bandwidth and maximum storage rendering workflows. most sensitive video assets. eMAM capacity per rack unit. Large broadcast defines role-based permissions to production workgroups, huge content StorageGRID Webscale restrict content access and allowed repositories, and boutique 4K facilities NetApp StorageGRID® Webscale actions by using Active Directory and (where no dropped frames are tolerated) object storage is an innovative solution the Lightweight Directory Access all rely on NetApp E-Series, the only for managing media repositories Protocol (LDAP). Data storage across production storage platform with across space and time. Through its multiple systems and locations in self- 99.999% reliability. You can choose intelligent policy engine, operations healing objects mitigates geographical from a variety of RAID resiliency can leverage both erasure coding and and platform-based risks. schemes, including Dynamic Disk Pools file replication to provide lower latency, technology, which dramatically reduces better performance, and maximum data eMAM and NetApp provide robust disk rebuild time, provides more availability. With StorageGRID Webscale, support with dedicated internal teams consistent performance, and eliminates up to 16 sites can be centrally managed and a global network of systems integrators and service providers.

ABOUT EMPRESS ABOUT NETAPP With a series of best-in-breed technology integrations, Leading organizations worldwide count on NetApp for eMAM provides complete workflow solutions for customers software, systems and services to manage and store their in broadcast, media, corporate, government, and education. data. Customers value our teamwork, expertise and passion eMAM hasoffices in New York, California, and India with for helping them succeed now and into the future. system integrator resellers worldwide. www..com www.empressmam.com

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