Case Study: Melbourne Football Club achieves fast, reliable cloud storage and sharing of massive HD video files with Panzura Single Site NAS & Freedom Archive

Melbourne Football Club Accelerates Video File Distribution

Melbourne Football Club (the Demons) is a professional Australian rules football club that generates 200+ hours of high‑definition video weekly and needed uninterrupted, rapid access to those large, non‑compressible files. With limited IT budget, critical database and athlete systems, and growing concerns about data security and recoverability, the club’s IT team was stretched thin and unable to reliably manage backups or restores.

Working with partner CSG, MFC deployed Panzura Single Site NAS and Freedom Archive to provide fast cloud replication, SMB compatibility with Macs, block‑level snapshots, and local caching of active data. The result was a simpler, faster and more cost‑effective cloud storage model, drastic reductions in support effort, limitless snapshot and restore options (from full systems down to individual files), and renewed peace of mind for the IT and football departments.

Melbourne Football Club

Jimmie Martin

IT Manager