Scality Ring Empowers Nightshift in Film and Digital Content

Scality SA announced that Nightshift SAS, in film and digital content, relies on Scality RING SDS as the storage platform for its highest-value assets, totaling over a petabyte of data.

From Paris to New York, Nightshift delivers engaging content for some well-known brands. L’Oréal Paris, Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss and Lancôme work with the company to deliver engaging branded content. Their team of producers and artists deliver media across all channels.

“We develop creative content for the most well-known brands in the beauty market around the globe,” said Mathieu Hue, Nightshift’s MD. “We simply can’t afford to lose any footage or our work-in-progress, so we trust all of our high-value content storage to Scality RING as we work on it. This involves ingestion of raw footage, editing and post-production work, and secure storage.“

Raw video footage is protected on the RING using file protocols to be kept safe and available for editing and post-production work including color grading movies, as well as for streaming secure screenings through Nightshift’s exclusive tools for customer reviews and approvals from locations around the globe.

“Nightshift combines innovative technological vision with the best talent in the industry,” added Hue. “And we appreciate the same qualities in Scality. The bottom line is that our SDS from Scality means we can ‘dormir sur nos deux oreilles’, as we often say in France, because it is entirely reliable and resilient. We know our critical assets-the products of our hard work-won’t be lost.“

Nightshift deployed multiple Supermicro servers running Scality software through partner Digital Storage SARL.

“Supermicro and Scality collaborated to meet the storage and orchestration challenges of customers like Nightshift,” said Eric Sindelar, GM, operations and advanced technology development, Supermicro. “Our recently announced solution highlights the growing association between companies, and we’re excited to support customers like Nightshift.“

RING brings reliability, availability and performance to multiple use cases in the M&E space. This software-defined object storage turns any standard x86 server into expandable storage. It scales without limits and guarantees 100% availability – while reducing costs by as much as 90% compared to legacy systems. It is deployed by more than hundreds of petabyte-scale customers around the world. It features native file protocols and high-fidelity AWS S3 API, data encryption, volume and bucket data protection, data-restorative versioning, extended location control for data sovereignty, and geo-replication for DR for customers requiring data protection.