Case Study: Primestream achieves fast, petabyte-scale on‑premises active archive with Cloudian

On-Premises Performance with Petabyte-scale Active Archive

Primestream Xchange, serving media and entertainment workflows that include VR/360 and 4K production, needed a petabyte-scale active archive that delivered on‑premises disk performance, fast cross‑site collaboration, and cloud‑comparable costs. To meet these requirements the customer integrated with vendor Cloudian’s on‑site object storage active archive (connected natively into the Xchange platform) to avoid cloud access charges and keep capacity‑intensive assets close at hand.

Cloudian deployed a disk‑based active archive that scales seamlessly from terabytes to petabytes, provides cross‑site replication for collaboration and multi‑site protection, and lets Xchange users move, transcode and transfer assets from any location. The Cloudian solution delivered measurable impact: fast local performance with no access charges, costs down to about ½ cent per GB per month, and scalable, protected storage that supports VR/360 and other high‑capacity media workflows.

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