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Keeping Up with High
Proformance Demands
in a NAS Environment
Keith Lissak, Senior Director, Media and Entertainment
Solutions Marketing, Quantum
T
he media and entertainment indus-
try continues to evolve as a digital
business. Thanks to its transition
to file-based operations years ago
and its more recent embrace of
higher-resolution video formats, the indus-
try now faces ever-growing volumes of
content, with unprecedented growth of
the need to store all of this content. At the
same time, the media industry is undergo-
ing a momentous transformation affecting
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the foundations of content creation, man-
agement, storage and delivery: the shift
toward all-IP workflows.
All of these factors point to a need for high-
capacity, high-performance media storage
that can scale up and scale out cost-
effectively while taking better advantage
of IT-based technology. The solution for
many media use cases is a next-generation
network attached storage (NAS) solution.