"Huawei Symantec's products address the stringent requirements of rendering environments for animation and visual effects, enhancing the user experience and making the animation creation process more efficient," said Edmont Rao regional director of sub-Saharan Africa, Huawei Symantec.
"The exponential growth in the volume of data that needs to be stored, managed and retrieved is creating enormous challenges for those in the media and entertainment industry, particularly as it becomes more digital. We want to help enterprises cope with this data deluge with a scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective storage solution that is designed to meet the needs of this vertical industry," he said.
The Media Asset Management (MAM) storage solution is a clustered NAS system using Huawei Symantec's new Oceanspace N8000 series and features innovative technologies like tiered storage, disk spin-down, intelligent fan and CPU speed tuning, reducing power consumption by 40-70% and significantly reducing operational costs. MAM is also highly scalable and offers scalability up to 15PB capacity and near linear performance expansion of up to 12Gbps throughput. Its fully active architecture and no single point of failure or disruption provides customers with an effective and secure data storage system.
For post-production editing, Huawei Symantec's Oceanspace S2600 and T-Series SAN storage systems deliver high-performance solutions. The Huawei Symantec Pure SSD Oceanspace Dorado accelerates performance for intensive post-production workflows.
Huawei Symantec has also jointly developed Armor, an end-to-end high-definition television (HDTV) tapeless solution with Dayang Technology Development, a developer of broadcast technology solutions covering all aspects of tapeless TV workflows. Armor is equipped to meet the requirements for both workgroup and enterprise levels and allows customers to enjoy the HD experience with an affordable investment.
In addition, Huawei Symantec has also introduced its solutions for network security and VPNs. The USG and SVN series provide unified security management for new media mass content and multi-business to protect against evolving threats such as intrusion attacks, spyware, phishing and malicious URLs.
