Case Study: Asahi Broadcasting Corporation achieves faster, unified SAN-NAS video editing workflows with Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Helps Asahi Broadcasting Corporation To Transform Its Video Editing Landscape

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a Japan-based entertainment network producing high-viewership programs, needed to transition to a complete file-based post-production environment while preserving existing workflows, archives and offline files. To support hybrid SAN/NAS access across on-site editing booths, post-production rooms and affiliated stations, ABC turned to Hitachi Vantara and deployed the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G series as the core of its storage modernization.

Hitachi Vantara implemented a unified SAN‑NAS architecture—integrating VSP G series arrays (one dedicated to metadata and two for user data) with Scale Logic HyperFS and a scale‑out NAS gateway—to provide centralized, software‑defined storage with on‑the‑fly scaling and high availability. The solution unified SAN and NAS access, significantly improved video scrubbing and editorial response times, enabled simultaneous ingest/edit/output workflows, supports billions of files, and—backed by proactive services from Hitachi Systems, Ltd—delivered measurably faster, more reliable post‑production operations for ABC.

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

Satoshi Yamamura

Technical Bureau, TV Production Engineering Center, Post-Production Department