EditShare Expands Inflight Dublin's Storage Capacity

EditShare has expanded Inflight Dublin's storage capacity by adding further high-powered EFS nodes.

The new appliances, supplied through EditShare’s channel partner Tyrell, provide an additional half petabyte of capacity to the company’s infrastructure.

Inflight Dublin has been a market leader in providing content for Inflight Entertainment (IFE) for 40 years. Many airlines worldwide now rely on it for packages of movies, television shows and games tailored to the needs of their passengers. EditShare has provided its content library and management facilities since 2011.

"We curate and package everything that is needed for IFE: video, audio, subtitles and metadata," said Pat Nolan, Director of IT and Information Security for Inflight Dublin. "We need agility to combine content with the right audio and subtitle languages, in the right formats for the IFE equipment on the client’s planes, quickly, accurately and securely."

Inflight utilises a tiered content storage strategy to optimise its production and archiving processes. This strategy includes EFS production storage, EFS nearline storage, and long-term archival solutions.

EFS production nodes deliver high-performance storage for fast content creation, EFS nearline storage, serves as an intermediate parking storage solution. Upon project completion and delivery, all content is securely archived using EditShare ARK.

Content flows and access are managed through EditShare FLOW software, which also provides the integration point for Inflight Dublin’s in-house developed software tools for automatically creating deliverables. Embedded in FLOW is EditShare Guardian, for comprehensive analytics and audit trailing, and combined with EditShare’s inherent security, provides assurance to the very high standards demanded by the company’s suppliers, which include major movie and television studios.

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