Case Study: Cinram Achieves Fast, Reliable Digital Media Encoding with Carahsoft and RackTop BrickStor

Cinram - Customer Case Study

Cinram, a global leader in pre-recorded multimedia products and digital media services, needed a fast way to deliver digitally encoded content for Netflix while handling multiple simultaneous encoding and playback streams. The company also needed a storage solution that would protect movie files from corruption and keep large volumes of content scalable and easy to move between systems. Carahsoft supported Cinram through the implementation of RackTop’s BrickStor Iron storage appliance.

RackTop delivered and installed BrickStor Iron in less than a week, giving Cinram high-throughput, self-healing storage with intelligent caching, prefetching, and asynchronous block replication. The solution enabled efficient multi-stream encoding and review workflows, helped safeguard data integrity against bit rot, and supported hundreds of terabytes of content with room to scale to petabytes. Cinram reported encoding movies in less than 8 hours and was impressed by the price and performance.

Cinram

Kurt Dean

IT manager