Turkish Erler Film Customer of Infortrend

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced that Erler Film A.S., an Istanbul-based movie production company, chose its EonStor GSe 3000 solution to build a petabyte-level NAS system to address the growing challenges of big data management driven by the proliferation of UHD video formats, such as 8k streams and beyond.

Erler Film is one of the biggest content owners in Turkey, and over the past 58 years, it has produced films, TV programs and series on 35 mm film and analog/digital tapes. Similar as many media companies, Its existing IT infrastructure no longer fits data volumes.

Because of this hurdle, the company was looking for solutions to upgrade its storage performance and capacity with guaranteed data availability. In addition, system scalability is another consideration, which allows the company to expand and manage the storage system to meet their business demands.

In this project, IEonStor GSe 3000 series with 5 units of 4U/60bay expansion enclosures were installed to build a NAS that facilitates the media workflow, including video ingestion, non-linear editing, and MAM (Media Asset Management). With 280 units of 3.5-inch SAS HDDs installed, the system can provide up to 2.8PB raw capacities.

“The ever-growing data has become a challenge for today’s media industry. We wanted a supplier that we can depend on in terms of technical capability and quality. Therefore, we chose Infortrend,” said Suleyman Erdogan, vice technical president, Erler Film.

“EonStor GSe unified storage family is an excellent storage choice for media and entertainment applications, for it provides superior file-level performance for media workflow, modular design with great expandability, and high-port density expansion enclosure to help customers save the IT space. This success with Erler Film once proves Infortrend’s competitiveness in the dynamic media environments, and fulfilling customers’ requirements,” said Thomas Kao, senior director of product planning, Infortrend.