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Content creation workflows are increasingly distributed between multiple sites and cloud providers. Data orchestration has long been a key component in these workflows. With the extra complexity (and functionality) of multiple on-premises and cloud infrastructures, automated data orchestration is more crucial than ever.
There has been a subtle but significant shift in how media companies store and manage data. In the old way, file storage formed the “core” and data was eventually archived off to tape or object storage for long-term retention. The new way of managing data flips this paradigm. Object storage has become the new “core” with performant file storage at edge locations used for data processing and manipulation.
Various factors have influenced this shift. These factors include the ever-increasing volume of data involved in modern productions, the expanding role of public cloud providers (for whom object storage is the default), and media application support.
With this shift in roles, new techniques for data orchestration become necessary. Data management vendors are reacting to these requirements for data movement and global file system solutions.
However, many of these solutions require data to be ingested and accessed through dedicated proprietary gateways. Often this gateway approach means that the data is now inaccessible using the native S3 API.
PowerScale OneFS and Superna Golden Copy provide a way of orchestrating data between file and object that retains the best qualities of both types of storage. Data is available to be accessed on both the performant edge (PowerScale) and the object core (ECS or public cloud) with no lock in at either end.
Further, Superna Golden Copy is directly integrated with the PowerScale OneFS API. The OneFS snapshot change list is used for immediate incremental data moves. Filesystem metadata is preserved in S3 tags.
Golden Copy and OneFS are a solution built for seamless movement of data between locations, file storage, and object storage. File structure and metadata are preserved.