Museum of Broadcast Communications Trusts Cleversafe With Terabytes of Digitized Radio and Television Content
Communications (MBC) and its website http://www.Museum.TV is reporting
seamless storage and delivery online of more than 5 Terabytes of digitized
radio and television content to an audience of more than 20,000 registered
members globally — all thanks to Cleversafe’s Dispersed Storage(R)
technology.
Due to its size, digital and unstructured data is challenging and
expensive to store. Cleversafe’s technology avoids the cost and inefficiency
of traditional storage systems based on replication by dividing data into
“slices” and dispersing them, via secure network connections, to multiple
storage nodes on a Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet). Each individual slice
contains too little information to be useful, but any threshold of the slices
can be used to perfectly recreate the original data. Moreover, the sum
capacity of all the slices is significantly less than maintaining multiple
copies of the original data, making data management easier and less expensive.
Since its inception in 1987, the not-for-profit MBC’s goal has been to
collect, preserve, and present a wide array of historic and contemporary radio
and television programming. Through the years, the primary challenge MBC faced
was the lack of resources to put together a large enough storage
infrastructure to handle the massive amount of digital and unstructured data
they had and needed to present. When their single-server storage setup didn’t
foot the bill, they had to suspend their online services.
When Cleversafe CEO and MBC member
this, he reached out to MBC.
“Our technology is designed to safely but effectively store and distribute
massive amounts of digital content, and it does so at 1/3 the cost and with
1/3 of the footprint of other storage solutions,” said Gladwin. “MBC provides
a valuable service to the public by allowing them a peek into history, and we
offered them a way to keep their cause alive without breaking the bank.”
MBC began working with Cleversafe in
across four dispersed locations to provide digital content to Internet users
around the world. In addition to using Cleversafe to store their data, MBC
also relies on the technology for distribution rather than implementing a
separate content delivery network (CDN). When users view content on the MBC
website, the data is pulled directly from Cleversafe and displayed via a media
server in front of the Cleversafe hardware, saving MBC money and physical
space without sacrificing performance or scalability for their end users.
Moreover, because of Cleversafe’s data distribution methods and
fault-tolerant system — up to sixteen 9′s of reliability — MBC never needs
to worry about the preservation of its digital assets, even if the 5 Terabytes
of data currently stored grows tenfold as expected over the next few years.
“For our initiative, effective storage and archiving is a must,” said
no-brainer. It’s the most secure option available, and it gave us a way to
store and distribute our content — really, our bread and butter — within our
budget. And, because of the money we saved both on the solution itself and on
not needing a separate CDN, we can now afford to continue digitizing our
remaining content, making our presentations better for our viewers. We see
our relationship with Cleversafe as long-term and are confident that their
technology will serve us well as our pool of data and our infrastructure
grows.”
For more information about MBC, please visit http://museum.tv.
About Cleversafe:
Cleversafe enables the world to confidently and cost-effectively store and
distribute limitless amounts of data. The company’s award-winning Dispersed
Storage(R) technology solves the scalability, security and longevity problems
of traditional storage methods based on replication. Learn more about
Cleversafe’s storage solutions at http://www.cleversafe.com or
http://www.cleversafe.org.
SOURCE Cleversafe