Joint Base Lewis-McChord Increases EditShare Storage With 224TB

EditShare
LLC announced that the Enterprise
Multimedia Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA has just completed a
major upgrade of its facility.

The upgrade included 224TB of EditShare XStream storage, EditShare Flow for
media asset management, Ark Tape for backup and archiving, and 10GBaseT
connectivity for the Center’s Avid editing workstations. The Center, which
handles local multimedia production at the combined army and air force bases,
also provides support to smaller production units in a wide region that spans
from Texas to Korea.

"We installed a small EditShare
several years ago and we have used the system extensively for shared storage
and collaborative editing. After the bases merged a few years ago, our
responsibilities increased, and we needed faster connectivity and more
capacity. It made practical and economic sense to take advantage of EditShare’s
XStream to give us high performance and additional storage along with the asset
management capabilities of Flow and the reliability of Ark backup and
archiving," says Mike Cullum, supervisor for multimedia sound and
presentation at the Center. "The
XStream and 10GBaseT connectivity give us the full-throttled performance we
need and we now have over 200TB of storage that all of our Avid editors work on
together."

Cullum anticipates faster production times for future projects thanks to
EditShare Flow’s asset management capabilities: "Adding metadata to footage with Flow will make finding and retrieving assets
much easier. Whether we need to locate sequences featuring a Stryker armored
vehicle, clips from a change of command or awards ceremony, or comments from a
General at a press conference, we’ll be able to find the clips much quicker and
with more precision. And with EditShare Ark, we can even search content that’s
in our tape archive. Previously, we’ve had to rely on notes or our memories to
find clips and it really took a lot of time. We’ll also be using Ark for
backing up our primary files."

"We
love that so many of our customers such as Lewis-McChord come back to us not
only to expand their storage but to take advantage of our complete family of
tapeless workflow products for ingest, asset management, archiving, backup and
playout," says Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare. "We continue to focus on offering smart,
cost-effective and fully integrated storage and workflow solutions for all
types of media scenarios that add productivity and save time and money."