[Chris Bilbro]

No I whole heartedly agree. It needs to have a phased approach that we work with the stakeholders on identifying what needs to be backed up and what needs to be archived.

As far as the rest of our infrastructure we run on a VCE vBlock 300FX with an EMC VNX5500 storage array. We use recoverpoint for replication and have commvault in place with local and offsite backups and archive.

AV Storage is a new project/beast i am looking to undertake. Trying to isolate a enterprise storage solution locally for best performance to the End AV user while also ensuring data is backed up or snapshotted so they can revert if they mess up, backed up for the most current project, migrating data off to our Enterprise storage array where they can be kept and backed/replicated/archived for long term needs.

I want to protect this data but at the same time I do not want to get so excessive in backups that the insurance plan becomes a money sink that does not pay dividends.

So Example:
Primary Storage at AV Marketing

Use Snapshots, checkpoints, VSS for immediate rollback of projects or Replication to a mirror storage array across town for Redundancy and failback needs.
(or)
Add a mirror copy of Primary storage at our Branch AV Office and simply have Marketing replicate to Branch office and Branch replicate back to Marketing office.

Use Tape for Archive of long term data retention needs and copy a copy on and off site.

All Finished products moved to EMC VNX and stored there where it is backed up (Commvault), replicated (Recoverpoint) and archived (Commvault) as per standardization in datacenter runbook.

[Chris Bilbro]

We have a few Avid MacPros, they use local Thunderbolt Drives and upload to a small NAS that is not really cutting it. I am looking for a 3 year solution that could allow them to grow as they need and not be impeded by a bad storage solution. We kind of have a Greenfield on where we can go for them, we will be getting requirements today but I want to look at all options.

We have roughly 20 Users that do Audio and Video for our Marketing team, they are all located in the same building. We also have a few other at another building that do Audio and Video for Remote Office Marketing (Branches) and doubt the company will let us consolidate all AV personnel under one roof. The ProMax Studio looks interesting for the Branch AV team as a one off solution that offers performance and mobility.

I may be in touch with ProMax or Facilis after today’s meeting with our Exec at Marketing to get a better idea of what is offered and where we can go.