Anthem Sports & Entertainment Opts for Qumulo
To consolidate broadcast channels onto single platform
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 22, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Qumulo, Inc. announced that Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corporation has teamed to accelerate performance and boost uptime.
“Qumulo’s value to the entire business is immense. It removed heavy burdens that were holding us back,” said Ryan Barnes, supervisor of technical implementations and maintenance, Anthem. “With Qumulo, we can expand upon our capabilities, meet and exceed viewer expectations, and rapidly grow as a company.“
Anthem is a television production and multimedia company that produces and broadcasts entertainment, sports, gaming, and theatrically released films and documentaries. Its intensive production environment and applications needed fast access to massive amounts of digital data and enhanced data management capabilities.
Anthem Boosts Productivity in Demanding M&E Environment
The end user simplified its data management, gained real-time operational analytics and massive scalability, and consolidated 10 channels of broadcast content into a single solution – all supported by the Qumulo File Data Platform.
Anthem was able to eliminate network slowdowns, improve the speed of workflows and overall employee productivity and satisfaction. By leveraging Qumulo’s fast platform, it also enriched its VOD customer experience with flawless entertainment playback.
The platform manages 225+TB of Anthem’s large and growing data stores. Anthem’s IT team oversees a centralized platform instead of managing multiple workgroups, application servers and storage.
As user’s data requirements increase, IT adds new nodes to scale capacity and performance automatically. The platform’s stability and performance have enabled to boost productivity and eliminate time previously spent troubleshooting storage and file issues.
“Qumulo’s performance is simply phenomenal, and it virtually manages itself,” added Barnes.
Before Qumulo, Anthem’s small IT team spent more than 500 hours a year on managing separate file storage. Qumulo’s file data platform restored that time, allowing IT to work on high-priority projects to enhance business operations. Recent projects include a work-from-home solution that enables artists to access video workflows and a new IP-based playout system to distribute media content in the Middle East and Africa.
Before deploying Qumulo’s real-time analytics, IT manually had to identify and troubleshoot network hotspots impacting users. Now, with real-time operational analytics, the IT team can identify hot spots, and the company’s traffic managers can monitor contractual obligations for broadcast partners.
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