Emmy Award-winning Bardel Entertainment increases data security and decreases operational costs with Cohesity
In 2022, Bardel decided to replace its aging PixStor solution with
a Qumulo filer for its live production workloads to improve data
security and performance. Their plan was to use Qumulo to move
all of Bardel’s customer data as a backup set into an Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Glacier environment in a deep archive state for data
protection. Bardel was also getting ready to relocate to a newly
constructed data center facility in Vancouver.
The existing backups worked fairly well at first, but performance started to decline. “Our production workloads weren’t very heavy during the initial previous deployment,” said Arash Roudafshan, VP of Technology at Bardel Entertainment Inc. “But as the number of client productions and new media episodes started ramping up and generating more data, the time to maintain backups within those Glaciers increased significantly.
The existing backups worked fairly well at first, but performance started to decline. “Our production workloads weren’t very heavy during the initial previous deployment,” said Arash Roudafshan, VP of Technology at Bardel Entertainment Inc. “But as the number of client productions and new media episodes started ramping up and generating more data, the time to maintain backups within those Glaciers increased significantly.