Studios, post-production houses, and video distributors are all looking for ways to solve the challenges involved with working with remote shoots and remote editing teams located all over the world. But legacy cloud providers are not designed to fit the evolving challenges of media workflow. Fortunately, Storj is redefining the cloud to support the future of media workflows—sustainably and economically.
Here are a few customer examples of how Storj provides an innovative way to get media in and through the cloud, solve specific customer challenges, and more.
Ortana chose Storj to help cure clients' cloud storage anxiety.
Ortana Media Group (Ortana) brings a broad range of content-centric software solutions and services, tailored for the global media, entertainment and broadcast industries. However, Ortana’s customers faced a myriad of challenges when dealing with the cloud.
“The cost of cloud storage is one of the key concerns we find with customers,” explains James Gibson, CEO & Founder, Ortana. “They will have a run with the cloud but then they get burned by the storage, egress and other fees.” The company needed to find a way to help cure their customers’ cloud anxiety by finding a cost-effective cloud storage solution that didn’t compromise on performance, security or other key requirements.
By integrating Storj’s distributed, region-less storage solution, Ortana improved workflow efficiency, reduced costs, and alleviated clients’ cloud storage anxiety. Partnering with Storj allowed Ortana to offer clients a cost-effective cloud storage solution, reducing the anxiety around unpredictable cloud storage, egress, and region-based fees.
Ortana successfully integrated Storj in less than a day, delivering exceptional upload and download speeds that enhance workflow efficiency without regional limitations. Storj improved Ortana’s clients' workflows, providing better value and global performance, which has significantly improved client satisfaction.
UNINTERRUPTED CA extends the value of iconik with Storj.
UNINTERRUPTED CA post-production and media workflow involved a manual-based process that included physically shipping hard drives storing their media to the editing offices. When the global health pandemic hit in 2020, new challenges, such as a team working remotely, compounded the inefficiencies and cost associated with their traditional media workflow.
UNINTERRUPTED CA turned to iconik and Storj to solve these issues. The combination gave them the upload and download speeds they needed, removing manual processes and saving hours. “What I uploaded to Storj within the last 24 hours would have taken 5 times the amount of time with the previous cloud storage provider,” says Aden Bahadori, Head of Post & Tech, UNINTERRUPTED CA.
Benefits of teaming up with Storj:
- Enhanced Efficiency: Storj’s distributed cloud storage offers higher performance and eliminates manual processes.
- Cost Savings: Switching to Storj significantly reduced cloud storage expenses while maintaining high performance and security.
- Improved Security: Storj’s architecture provides robust security features, ensuring the protection of sensitive data.
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Sardius Media scales to meet global customer demand with Storj.
Sardius needed to add a better performing secondary storage and added Storj to their mix. The Sardius team faced the challenges of ensuring their customer’s video content was available, secure, and reliable. Previously, Sardius stored the data with two different cloud storage providers who race against each other when a video file request initiates. Sardius needed a third cloud storage provider to serve as a data bunker bucket they could rely on if the other providers went down.
Storj outperformed the other providers for video distribution in so many geographies that Sardius made Storj their primary cloud storage solution.
“Storj has saved us money without compromising performance, which is a great surprise,” says Josh Love, Principal Engineer, Sardius. “Previously we had two cloud storage providers in U.S. buckets, but we found out that Storj is on par with competing with them. For example, Storj’s performance and reliability in our South American market was a big boost for us. The big win is the increased global distribution across the board that Storj helps deliver.”
Storj is uniquely qualified to handle today’s media workflows.
Media workflows are more complex and more global than ever before. And there is no room for delays, let alone data loss. M&E companies need cloud storage that can be accessed at high speeds from anywhere in the world—without the cost of multi-region storage. They need their data to always be available even if an outage or disaster occurs. This is what Storj does.
Storj is a globally distributed network of storage that enables global access with a single upload. Storj is optimized to work with large files and is consistently fast. And because the Storj network is comprised of spare capacity, it is up to 90% less cost than AWS and reduces carbon emissions by 83%. That’s a big win for M&E.
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