Oracle Pillar Axiom Storage System for Golf Channel

Golf Channel, a
growing network on television, is using Oracle’s
Pillar Axiom 600 storage system to support more than 100,000 hours of
content, as well as rapid growth and new reality programming.

Golf Channel, a member of the NBC Sports Group, launched in January 1995 and
was the first fully digital production facility in the US. In its first
year, Golf Channel offered a limited tournament schedule to less than 5 million
homes in the US. Today, the network televises more than 150 events each year
from all the world’s top tours, as well as quality original productions to more
than 120 million homes worldwide.

In the past two years, the company has more than doubled the amount of content
that it creates, driving up storage requirements.

Seeking a cost-effective storage solution with the reliability to handle large
file sizes and deliver content nearly at a moment’s notice, the Golf Channel
deployed the Pillar Axiom 600 storage system.

It manages and stores more than 300TB of video
content and has scaled with the Golf Channel’s growing storage
capacity requirements, which doubled in the last two years.

The also enabled the company to consolidate both
active and inactive data in a single storage pool with fast R/W
performance when moving data from inactive to active tiers, delivering a
substantial improvement over the company’s legacy environment.

Golf Channel has also improved storage efficiency, taking advantage of the
Pillar Axiom storage system’s QoS capabilities to ensure critical applications
are prioritized regardless of other activity on the system.

It has also been used to support new reality programming on the network,
including Golf Channel’s The Big Break series.

With multiple productions that shoot approximately 50TB video content each,
Golf Channel uses its Axiom storage system between its live video
storage device and archive, providing a reliable storage system to
transfer footage between editing and archive.

"Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600 is a
world-class storage solution that provides the scalability, reliability and
availability which is so critical to our business," said Ken Botelho,
senior director, engineering, Golf Channel. "We can access video content at nearly a moment’s notice. If we know we
need to get data back fast, we put it on the Pillar Axiom. It gives us the
confidence we need to succeed and allows us to sleep at night."