Nascar Productions Renews With Spectra Logic

Spectra
Logic Corporation announced that Nascar
Productions, LLC has selected a Spectra T-Finity tape library to archive
180,000 hours (8PB) of Nascar Productions’ high-resolution video footage.

The enterprise T-Finity, utilizing LTO technology, will manage and
store Nascar’s vast historical broadcast data, including Nascar-related events,
TV programs, movies, commercials and other broadcast-related data sets.
Nascar’s video footage was previously archived on a Spectra T950 tape library,
enabling a transition to a higher-capacity T-Finity tape library using
Spectra’s TranScale feature, which protects prior investments and allows users
to transform and scale an existing tape library.

"When
Nascar Productions purchased the T950 library in 2008 it was configured to
archive 50,000 hours of video footage, and in just five years, its broadcast
data bloomed by 260% to 180,000 hours," said Brian Grainger, Spectra
Logic’s SVP of WW sales. "We have
served Nascar’s storage needs for many years, and were pleased to help them
meet their growing needs with Spectra’s efficient, timesaving TranScale
capabilities. Spectra Logic prides itself on developing long-term relationships
within the industry’s vendor, partner and end-user communities and, as the
Nascar solution illustrates, working with those contacts to meet unique and
ever-changing data preservation needs."

With Spectra’s TranScale architecture,
T-Series tape library customers can utilize the common, interchangeable
components between Spectra’s T-Series library family, enabling customers to scale
to the next largest library as data sets grow. The TranScale upgrade is fast. It allows users to retain tape library components, eliminates the
need for host/server reconfiguration, serial number changes, worldwide name changes,
and switch rezoning, and is guaranteed to be completed in less than half a day.
Nascar Productions TranScaled from its T950 to a T-Finity with a simple chassis
change.

"Nascar
needed to expand its storage to accommodate a growing amount of video data.
Spectra’s TranScale feature allowed us to transform our T950 into an upgraded
T-Finity tape library," said Steve Stum, Nascar’s VP of
operations and technical production. "The
upgrade process involved a simple chassis replacement instead of a complex
technology refresh, and we were able to complete the process in just a few
hours."