Amplidata and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are Working Together on a two Petabyte AmpliStor Archive to dramatically improve the Montreux Jazz Festival archive process by storing Daily Recordings of Live Performances in Uncompressed High Definition. This innovation allows offering the latest content sooner and more cost effectively than before.
Milpitas, CA and Lochristi, Belgium (PRWEB) July 19, 2013
Amplidata, an innovator in software defined storage solutions for unstructured big data and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) partner of the Claude Nobs Foundation (Montreux Jazz Festival legacy) announced today that EPFL has doubled their AmpliStor® archive capacity to two Petabytes, and have dramatically improved their archive process by storing daily recordings of live performances using a prototype real-time acquisition system to capture uncompressed high definition (HD) video streams at a rate of 3TB per hour.
Organizations are looking for faster and more efficient ways to make their digital content available online to unlock significant value. Amplidata and EPFL are working together on the Montreux Jazz Digital Project with the Claude Nobs Foundation, curator of the archive to digitize, store, and provide access to more than 5000 hours of concerts recorded since the Festival’s inception back in 1967.
Having gone through the successful but time consuming digitization of their tape library, EPFL wanted to dramatically accelerate the time-to-archive by eliminating the use of tape to store the performances before uploading to their AmpliStor archive. This innovation allows offering the latest content sooner and more cost effectively than before, an essential aspect for the upcoming Montreux Jazz café @EPFL.
“Data and content is the new oil,” said Mike Wall, CEO & Executive Chairman, Amplidata, “It has to be online and available for organizations to use it to grow revenue and improve operational efficiency. This project with EPFL is a great example of what can be accomplished with next generation storage solutions like AmpliStor.”
EPFL doubled their capacity to two Petabytes and placed the new one Petabyte system onsite during the festival to capture the live performances in real-time. The new one Petabyte AmpliStor storage system consists of 3 controllers and 30 AS36 storage nodes, and is connected to three Maldivica CIFS gateways via 10Ge, with three capture workstations receiving two uncompressed HD digital camera streams each. Total bandwidth required is 778 Megabytes per second. Data durability is significantly better than traditional RAID-based systems at fifteen 9s which means no copies or backups are needed keeping the onsite system compact for future transport back to the main EPFL archive location.
“We achieved the goal of making the Festival’s archives accessible significantly sooner with less effort and cost,” said Alexandre Delidais, director of operations and development for EPFL’s role in the project. “This partnership was very successful in that we now have a highly durable, scalable, and efficient platform that will serve us well for years to come."
We achieved the goal of making the Festival’s archives accessible significantly sooner with less effort and cost,” said Alexandre Delidais, director of operations and development for EPFL’s role in the project.
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