SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Today's digital media studios, producers and broadcasters demand
technology that can unleash the creative process and enhance the
user experience for the entire life cycle of data in the world's
most content-intensive workflows – from ingest to editing,
transcoding, distribution and archiving. Organizations require
solutions that enable collaboration and eliminate workflow
management complexity without compromising performance.
Find DataDirect Networks (DDN) in Booth #SL8016 at the 2014 NAB
Show, April 5-10, 2014 in
Las Vegas, NV, where the company
will demonstrate technology that addresses the storage, workflow
performance and geographically distributed data center needs of the
media and entertainment industry. Joined by customers Deluxe
Entertainment Services Group and Level 3 Communications, DDN will
showcase how its file and object storage solutions can help
customers drive higher performance, simplify management, increase
workflow efficiency, reduce time to market and lower total
cost of ownership.
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News Facts
- At this year's NAB Show, together with Deluxe Entertainment
Services Group and Level 3 Communications, DDN will showcase its
technology expertise designed to address the life cycle of data in
the world's most content-intensive media and entertainment
workflows.
- DDN's end-to-end single platform approach for optimizing and
cost effectively managing digital workflows advances storage for
Media and Entertainment with:
- Up to 560 percent faster transcoding
- No SAN complexity
- 8,192 x larger namespaces
- Reduced power consumption with integrated SSDs and 40 percent
less hardware
- Global, automated collaboration
- Ability to process HD, 2K, 4K, 5K, 8K, 3D and beyond with
ease
- Flexible, policy-based solutions
- Multi-tiered, policy-driven automation
- Rich ecosystem of partners and technologies
- DDN's real-time, high performance tier-1 solutions
(GRIDScaler™, SFA7700™, SFA12K®, SFX) deliver the highest
performance to allow Media and Entertainment customers to create
and produce, edit without bottlenecks, transcode to all optimal
formats, and render and distribute to all device types.
- DDN delivers one simple and seamless solution through
easy-to-use, integrated collaboration, distribution and archive
capabilities with DDN's WOS® cloud and object storage solutions –
WOS Bridge, WOS Access and federated GRIDScaler namespace.
DDN Showcases Active Archive and Content Delivery Use Cases
at Booth #SL8016
- Active Archive Demo: The ultimate collaboration story
told by global post-production company, Deluxe Entertainment
Services Group. Learn how Deluxe uses DDN's WOS object storage
platform to free up expensive tier-1 storage, increase utilization
and efficiencies of geo-dispersed compute and creative resources,
and create a much easier scaling path over time.
- Content Origin and Delivery Demo: Find out how the
biggest content delivery networks solve their largest,
unpredictable storage needs. Level 3 Communications will
demonstrate its Cloud Content Exchange service powered by DDN's
GRIDScaler solution.
- ASG Digital Archive Demo: Visit the DDN Booth
#SL8016 from 2:00-2:30 p.m. PT every
day to meet our partners from ASG and discover how their digital
archive (ADA) solution utilizes DDN's WOS object storage platform
to achieve the highest performance and most cost-effective
disk-based archive solution in the market.
- Active Archive Alliance Session: Join DDN and the Active
Archive Alliance in room S224 on Tuesday,
April 8 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
PT for a panel session that will showcase the way active
archive technology is delivering a new level of capability to media
and entertainment IT environments, allowing them to store and
easily retrieve data in ways that weren't possible before.
Get Involved with DDN at the 2014 NAB Show
- Happy TWO Hours: Join DDN, customers, partners and
guests for two consecutive happy hours on Tuesday, April 8 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. PT. Guests will have a chance to
enter a drawing to win an iPad Air.
- Japanese Language Tour: Visit the DDN booth at
1:30 p.m. PT every day for a booth
tour in Japanese and to receive a complete overview of DDN's
solutions and personal technical consultation on your
projects.
- DDN iPad Air Giveaway: Visit http://www.ddn.com/nab2014/
to enter for a chance to win an iPad Air. NAB Show attendees have
two chances to win.
Supporting Quotes
- According to DDN CMO, Molly
Rector, "The age of high resolution media broadcast
production requires solutions that accelerate the creation, sharing
and long-term access of content across the entire workflow.
Production studios, broadcasters and other customers in the media
and entertainment industry are looking for strategic alliances with
their vendors so they may focus on the creative part of the process
without having to worry about bottlenecks anywhere along the
production journey. More than 600+ DDN media and
entertainment customers, including global leaders Deluxe and Level
3, are already benefiting from DDN technology with unmatched
performance, ease of management, increased workflow and cost
efficiency –future proofing their production initiatives for
tomorrow."
Supporting Resources
- DDN 2014 NAB Show Landing Page
- More on DDN Object Storage
- More on DDN File Storage
- More on DDN's work with Media & Entertainment
companies
- Follow the DDN Blog, connect with us on Twitter and
LinkedIn
- Follow the #StorageForMedia hashtag to join the storage for
media conversation
- Subscribe to DDN RSS Feed
About Deluxe
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.
is a global leader in media and entertainment services for film,
video and online content, from capture to consumption. Since 1915,
Deluxe has been the trusted partner for the world's most successful
Hollywood studios, independent
film companies, TV networks, exhibitors, advertisers and others,
offering best-in-class solutions in production, post production,
distribution, asset and workflow management and new digital
solution-based technologies. With operations in Los Angeles, New
York and around the globe, the company employs nearly 6,000
of the most talented, highly honored and recognized artists and
industry veterans worldwide. Deluxe is a wholly owned subsidiary of
MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. For more information visit
www.bydeluxe.com.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications,
Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500 company that provides
local, national and global communications services to enterprise,
government and carrier customers. Level 3's comprehensive portfolio
of secure, managed solutions includes fiber and infrastructure
solutions; IP-based voice and data communications; wide-area
Ethernet services; video and content distribution; data center and
cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves customers in more than 500
markets in over 60 countries across a global services platform
anchored by owned fiber networks on three continents and connected
by extensive undersea facilities. For more information, please
visit www.level3.com or get to know us
on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
About DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is
the world leader in massively scalable storage. Our data storage
and processing solutions and professional services enable
content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest
levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN
enables enterprises to extract value and deliver business results
from their information. Our customers include the world's leading
online content and social networking providers, high performance
cloud and grid computing, life sciences, media production, and
security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of
mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been
designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data
centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's
information powered enterprise. For more information, go to
www.ddn.com or call 1-800-837-2298.
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DDN Media Contact:
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Kenison
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Email: dkenison@ddn.com
Work: 408-990-2658
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