Neela Film Productions in India Chooses Qsan NAS

Company Biography
Neela Film Productions Pvt Ltd is a renowned creative production house based in Mumbai, India.

The company was established in 1998 and founded and managed by Asit Kumarr Modi. Under his guidance, it has produced number of fiction and non-fiction shows for various channels with the aim of providing wholesome entertainment to the audiences. Its vision is to create shows that provide family entertainment along with social significance by permanently creating a place in the hearts of the audiences.

In an era of daily-soaps ruling the TV industry, the company led to the creation of a new genre of happiness and humour through family oriented stories, along with socially relevant moral messages.

Making a start with hit shows like Hum Sab Ek Hain (promoted national integration), Krishnaben Khakhrawala (promoted women empowerment) and Yeh Duniya Hai Rangeen (promoted communal harmony) on Sony TV, Saarthi (contemporary show based on the values promoted by the great Hindu epic, Mahabharata) and Pyaar Mein Twist on Star Plus, Hamaari Saas Leela on Colors, Meri Biwi Wonderful (adaptation of the internationally popular comedy serial ‘Bewitched‘), Sab Khelo Sab Jeetto (family game show) and Wah Wah Kya Baat Hai (humorous poetry show) on SAB TV, the company has risen with their flagship show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah on SAB TV completing more than 2,900 episodes over 12 years and running, making it the longest running daily family comedy show in the world.

Challenge
As a professional film production and post-production company, the video production team deal with large amounts of data every day. It used to take a long time to upload data from cameras to their storage solutions – and even longer to edit and create high resolution media with existing tape-based storage system. With the suggestion of its storage solution provider Aari Technology LLP, Neela Film Productions started its journey of digital transformation and required for a centralized storage solution that would provide huge storage potential, high data transfer speeds, and accessibility from multiple workstations.

Solution: 

• Data Protection
• Media Inline

Aari Technology has knowledge on NAS of all major brands and recommended Qsan XCubeNAS. There were 6 units of XCubeNAS 8012RE procured and each NAS unit was equipped with 10GbE to provide high data transfer speeds which enhanced the editors’ productivity. The ZFS-powered NAS assured the data integrity and securely protected the digital assets. Each NAS has replica to the remote NAS unit with higher capacity which was installed in the firm’s director’s home as 3rd-tier backup.

Benefits
“We are happy with Qsan‘s performance and support. Also AARI technology’s integration level support in pre-sales and post sales is good.” said Krunal Khakhakar, creative and content supervisor, Neela Film Productions. “But most importantly, we are successfully protecting the data of end users from last 3 years.“

• Recommended Product: XCubeNAS 8000
• Recommended Model: XN8012RE

Recommended Features:

• Remote Replication
• XMirror
• RSync