Case Study: Endemol Shine Australia achieves flexible, cost-effective remote media storage and disaster recovery with Synology Inc.

Endemol Shine Australia - Customer Case Study

Endemol Shine Australia, a leading TV production company handling shows like MasterChef and The Voice, faced a massive, distributed post‑production challenge: roughly 250 Mac workstations and more than 1,000 TB of constantly changing audio/video media across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and overseas. They needed a cloud‑ready, portable, easy‑to‑deploy storage and backup solution that supported their existing workflows and third‑party backup software. Synology Inc. (Synology NAS, DiskStation models such as the DS1512+ and DS3617xs, plus Cloud Station ShareSync and Archiware integration) was chosen to meet those requirements.

Synology Inc. deployed a mix of DiskStation and RackStation NAS units to create on‑location primary storage, centralized archive and DR copies, and WAN replication for remote workers via Cloud Station ShareSync, while integrating Archiware for familiar backup workflows. The result: faster, simpler deployments (first proven during The Voice), reduced need to ship RAID/servers or rely solely on LTO tapes, minimized downtime with online spinning copies, and cost savings from lower $/TB that let teams keep bulk media on disk and enable smaller independent workflows — all supporting the company’s 250 workstations and 1,000+ TB media estate.

Endemol Shine Australia

Ben Trinder

Technical Supervisor, Post Production