Amplidata Chosen to Archive Music Legends Performances Live and in HD

Amplidata NV and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
partner of the Claude Nobs
Foundation (Montreux Jazz Festival legacy), announced that EPFL has doubled
their AmpliStor archive capacity to 2PB, and have improved their archive
process by storing daily recordings of live performances using a prototype
real-time acquisition system to capture uncompressed HD video streams at a rate
of 3TB per hour.

Organizations are looking for faster and more efficient ways to make their
digital content available online to unlock significant value. Amplidata and
EPFL are working together on the Montreux Jazz Digital Project with the Claude
Nobs Foundation, curator of the archive to digitize, store, and provide access
to more than 5,000 hours of concerts recorded since the Festival’s inception
back in 1967.

Having gone through the time consuming digitization of
their tape library, EPFL wanted to accelerate the time-to-archive by
eliminating the use of tape to store the performances before uploading to their
AmpliStor archive. This innovation allows offering the latest content sooner
and more cost effectively than before, an essential aspect for the upcoming
Montreux Jazz café @EPFL.

"Data and content is the new oil,"
said Mike Wall, CEO and executive chairman, Amplidata, "It has to be online and available for
organizations to use it to grow revenue and improve operational efficiency.
This project with EPFL is a great example of what can be accomplished with next
generation storage solutions like AmpliStor."

EPFL doubled their capacity to 2PB and placed the new 1PB system onsite
during the festival to capture the live performances in real-time. The new 1PB
AmpliStor storage system consists of 3 controllers and 30 AS36 storage nodes,
and is connected to three Maldivica CIFS gateways via 10GbE, with three capture
workstations receiving two uncompressed HD digital camera streams each. Total
bandwidth required is 778MB/s. Data durability is better than
traditional RAID-based systems at fifteen 9s which means no copies or backups
are needed keeping the onsite system compact for future transport back to the
main EPFL archive location.

"We achieved the goal of making the
Festival’s archives accessible sooner with less effort and cost," said
Alexandre Delidais, director of operations and development for EPFL’s role in
the project. "This partnership was
very successful in that we now have a highly durable, scalable, and efficient
platform that will serve us well for years to come."