Case Study: Red Bull Media House achieves 5-minute file access and faster production with Quantum Corporation's StorNext

Quantum StorNext Gives Wings to Creative Workflows at Red Bull Media House

Red Bull Media House, the global content arm of Red Bull, faced slow, fragmented production workflows: three separate sites and incompatible platforms relied on manual FTP and ticketing to share assets, causing clip retrieval to take hours or even a week, increasing staff overhead and risk of failure.

The company implemented Quantum StorNext File System and StorNext Storage Manager with 300 TB of SAN storage and a Quantum Scalar i6000 tape library, enabling automated tiered archiving (with two copies and offsite protection) and seamless cross‑platform access. Deployed in two months on time and within budget, the solution cut clip retrieval from hours to about five minutes (30 seconds to 20 minutes depending on length), accelerated staging and parallel workflows, reduced administration, and provides scalable capacity into the petabyte range.

Red Bull Media House

Andreas Itzlinger

Media Systems Engineer, Technical Operations Division