Orange Orders Petabyte Extension of MatrixStore

Object Matrix Limited announces that Orange SA, the French multinational telecommunications company, has purchased a further PB of MatrixStore object storage to be used as a nearline platform for OCS and a secured archived repository for Orange VOD services.

OCS is a series of dedicated movie channels operated by Orange and is broadly distributed by French cable and satellite providers. The Video on Demand (VOD) platform from Orange continues to grow in both content and subscriptions.

OCS and the Orange VOD department wanted to move from their existing HSM tape-based LTO archive infrastructure to a modern, scalable Object Storage Management (OSM) approach that would scale in line with future business requirements and be more cost effective to operate.

Having purchased two MatrixStore clusters in 2014 to protect video assets in production workflows, the choice to add more secured and future-proof capacity to their archive was a natural one.

Nick Pearce, co-founder of Object Matrix stated: “Being trusted by the French global telecommunications giant to secure VOD assets and add more MatrixStore nearline storage is fantastic news and proof that organisations are looking to do more with their content than park it on LTO on a shelf.“

The system to be installed in Paris will again be integrated and supported by CSolutions. Object Matrix is represented in France by IVORY Business Development.

Julien Gachot, CEO, IVORY stated: “The fact that Orange has chosen Object Matrix to work on more strategic workflows echoes our experiences within the industry that organisations want more than just a storage supplier.“

MatrixStore is an object based, nearline storage platform that scales from 30TB to multiple PBs. As well as providing file system access it also provides additional business benefits via features including built-in search, options for DR, multiple-tenancy, WORM options and built-in audit.