Infortrend® Technology, Inc. announced that WQED, a renowned TV broadcasting company in the USA, has leveraged EonStor GS unified enterprise data storage solution to improve efficiency of their M&E post-production and TV broadcasting workflows. Founded in 1954 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, WQED is a leading community-supported television company specializing in public media post-production and broadcasting. For the growing amount of content, i.e., educational, cultural and entertainment programs, as well as for media post-production workflow, they needed storage solution with high capacity and high performance.

The existing storage could not satisfy the needs of the company neither with throughput nor with capacity requirements causing video playback stuttering, inability to expedite, edit, encode videos on time, which considerably slowed down their projects. Moreover, the outdated storage required excessive maintenance, which was time- and cost-consuming for IT support department. Provided by Infortrend's partner, Intelligent Technology, WQED upgraded to a unified storage EonStor GS 4060 operating in 100GbE environment.

It is paired to an encoder server and fourteen media editing workstations equipped with high-performance Intel® CPU and running Adobe Creative Cloud suite. The storage solution provides 1PB storage capacity in 4U form factor and delivers 10GB/s read and 5.5GB/s write throughput performance to ensure smooth M&E workflows. To store the growing volume of video assets, GS offers simple scalability options: the company can scale-out the system with a new GS storage and scale-up with JBOD.

Moreover, it has redundant design, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime. All the components are modular and hot-swappable, allowing for easy maintenance. IT staff can monitor the GS system through the intuitive management interface EonOne.