TV provider MediaHub boots SAN and NAS for Scality object storage
Summary
It has built its storage-as-a-service offering, ArkHub, around a 3.5PB Scality Ring – with expected growth to 20PB-plus by 2024 – and saved millions of dollars on what it would have spent on block and file access storage. In doing so, it can offer its customers broadcast media storage at a fraction of the cost they would incur in egress charges from mainstream cloud providers. “When we needed to on-board a client, it was a headache to add more storage capacity,” said Simon Scott, executive head of technology at MediaHub. “So we started buying NAS as a next tier, but we soon hit another wall.” MediaHub deployed Scality Ring object storage, commencing in 2018. Each server holds 60 spinning-disk HDDs of 14TB each for bulk storage, while metadata is tiered to a couple of TB of NVMe flash drive capacity in the same box.