Too much information, too little time
You have 200 hours of high-definition footage, groups in various locations needing access, and a solution that's simple to use from anywhere. What would you do? Well, the Melbourne Football Club went to the Cloud.
Despite being one of the world’s oldest AFL football clubs, the Dees had a very modern problem. And one perhaps many of us – especially post-2020 - can relate to.
How do you store what you need, access it when and where you need it, while keeping that information secure?
“As a football club, we basically have the video storage requirements of a TV studio,” said Jimmie Martin, Melbourne Football Club IT Manager.
“There are hundreds of terabytes of HD video, with more generated each week. This equates to an enterprise storage requirement, with an extremely non-enterprise budget that’s constrained by the AFL.”
While it seems like a relatively small issue, the storage and accessibility of game and training footage has a far-reaching impact. The Vision (as they call it) not only needed to be on-demand for players, It needed to be used by coaches as the basis of coaching decisions, both in defence and offence.
Melbourne’s IT team also needed a robust backup and data recovery system that could be automated and secured both on-site and in the cloud. This would ensure that footage would be stored without manual intervention and enable archives to be accessed easily if required.
How does football apply to Education?
And it needs to be secure.
- Multi-user access – with students, teachers, aids, parents.
- Large amounts of data.
- Flexible and secure access requirements.
But with so many options available, how do you find a cloud solution that will scale up (and down) with your needs while still working within your budget?
When you start looking, it can be quite overwhelming.
Your secret weapon: A Managed Service Provider. For Melbourne, this was FUJIFILM CodeBlue.
“CodeBlue took our problem, researched vendors and possible solutions and brought fully-fledged ideas back to us,’ said Jimmie.
“Unlike some providers, we didn’t have to do all the work ourselves, as their consultation process went over the course of months and provided real value. CodeBlue even went as far as setting up live replicas of servers in their offices to test solutions before they presented them to us.”
The result: a faster, easier and secure solution.
“With CodeBlue’s help, we are now able to store data faster and easier as the process has been automated and we don’t have to worry about the risk of something going wrong with redundancies in place.”
Could FUJIFILM CodeBlue be your storage secret weapon?
Read more on this topic:
- Blog post: 5 benefits to using a Managed Services Provider
- Case study: Powering the Dees