BASE Media Cloud Solution Based on Zadara Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service

Zadara Storage Ltd, provider of enterprise storage-as-a-service (STaaS), and BASE Media Cloud Ltd announced that BASE Media Cloud is offering a secure and flexible pay-per-use cloud storage solution for digital media – powered by Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) platform.

The solution will enable capital and operational expenditure savings for media companies operating in production, post-production and distribution across a range of digital media sectors.

The BASE Media Cloud platform has been designed and built around the Zadara Storage technology to address the increasing challenges created by acquiring, storing, processing and delivering the ever-rising volumes of high quality media files throughout the media production workflow. S solutions are charged on a pay-per-use basis, without contractual lock-ins, offering capital and operational expenditure savings for clients. The platform can be tailored for media workflows, integrating with media workflow software applications, enabling scalability and flexible pricing models designed for media production budgets. Founded by post-production specialist Ben Foakes, BASE Media Cloud is hosting its solutions with Vodafone cloud & Hosting Services in UK data centres, connected directly to Vodafone’s extensive backbone fibre network.

“BASE has been borne out of years of hands-on experience working in production, post and delivery,” said Foakes. “The media industry is facing huge growth in volumes of file-based media, from acquisition through to distribution, and it’s only going to keep growing. Picture resolutions, storage and processing demands are rapidly increasing, against a backdrop of falling budget and new business models. We are giving clients a new, cost-effective way to securely store and access unlimited amounts of their raw footage, file masters and project assets, accessible on-demand, 24/7/365. This is just the beginning of our plans to provide end-to-end, software-powered media workflows in the cloud.“

Working with Zadara Storage as their UK and EMEA media and entertainment industry partner, BASE Media Cloud’s Storage as a Service solutions will include backup, archive, share and dedicated Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSAs), tailored to individual customers’ requirements. Secure access to the BASE Media Cloud private storage platform will be made available via a choice of secure network protocols and software-based secure file transfer products.

“We are pleased that BASE Media Cloud chose Zadara Storage as their media storage as a service platform,” said Dani Naor, VP, international sales, Zadara. “BASE Media Cloud is proving to be an excellent partner because their solution brings unique and significant value to the creative industry. Media and entertainment is one of the key market segments that is recognizing the need to move beyond traditional methods of purchasing and managing digital storage, which cannot keep up with the exponential growth in capacity. These customer requirements are better served with innovative as-a-service solutions such as BASE Media Cloud.“