The stable high-speed transfer capabilities provided by Presto File Server meet our needs and have replaced our previous transport tools. With its flexibility in VDSM deployment and Btrfs file system support, we are now able to consolidate all services into a single server in an efficient manner. Perhaps it can be said that this is a true all-in-one solution.
Organization Background
A well-known company is an integrated film distribution company with operations all over the world and multiple branches in the US and Africa. They work primarily with content creation companies such as large film studios, independent producers and directors. It is also an important content provider for end-users, offering movies, film festivals and online content libraries such as iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Microsoft Xbox, Amazon Prime, etc., as well as serving thousands of customers around the world. .
Among these partnerships, it has been named one of the world's 50 "Apple iTunes aggregators", developing global business by providing iTunes with the right format of content, and is one of the few companies in the world to receive "Encoding House" certification. One of the companies. The quality of the content provided by Apple QC is over 90%, making it a reliable partner for more and more artists and copyright owners when distributing their work to iTunes.
Challenges facing
The need to accelerate data exchange is very common. The standard movie package (commonly known as DCP, or digital movie package) in this industry is usually 50-150 GB in size. It is often impractical to transmit overseas through common tools. However, only a subset of its partners have data transfer acceleration solutions, and most partners do not have such a solution.
In addition, in order to address the various IT restrictions on privacy settings and transport protocols for partners, data must be distributed and collected for distributed storage to meet the specifications of the different tools used by partners, making it difficult to manage for each partner. With chaotic permissions settings, it is difficult to maintain different licenses, but also extra time and expense in storage.
When the company needs to distribute a file to a number of different partners, the same file requires multiple copies, inevitably causing redundancy and additional file confirmation time.
So, set out to find a new solution to replace the solution it had previously adopted.
The basic condition is to be able to provide high-speed, continuous, and recoverable transmissions under different Internet conditions to ensure file consistency and meet stringent quality inspection requirements.
In addition, the new tools need to be highly flexible and adaptable to different physical and virtual environments without friction, depending on the constraints of the partner IT department on privacy settings and transport protocols. The important thing is that it should be able to focus on easy management.
Solutions
"Our experience with Synology products has been excellent for many years, so we are pleased to learn that Synology has introduced Presto File Server for reliable and large file transfers," Josef said.
This time, it purchased the RS3617xs, which consisted of 12 10TB HDDs, and then built six fully isolated virtual instances of the Virtual DSM running on the device for the different purposes required, each with its own VLANs to meet MPAA (American Film Institute) security regulations for different network accessibility of different devices.
Four of these instances are responsible for internal services, including VPN services and centralized storage for internal use, and Presto File Server and a 300 Mbps license are installed on one of the six instances, with each partner in the instance. Each has its own folder with independent data and account information.
Now it can distribute content to many partners simultaneously on a single server. Since the Btrfs file system is enabled on the Synology NAS, only one physical copy of the same file is needed, so you can leave more capacity to store more content.
It then emails the login information, updated available transport options, and the easy-to-use Presto desktop client installer to the partner without the need for additional training for their partners. All connection status, transport activity, and resource control can be monitored and managed on the server's centralized panel.
To further protect your data, use Hyper Backup to back up the RS3617xs to the DS1513+ every night, ensuring access to the new version of the data in the event of a disaster.
Applicable devices
RS3617xs
Results
Presto File Server has proven performance in accelerating file transfers, replacing the acceleration that previous solutions have brought to it.
Together with the Presto File Server license support deployed in a virtual environment, all services can be consolidated onto a single server, where centralized, consistent user rights management is also achieved, saving it and its partners. A lot of time, greatly reducing the probability of workload and technical errors, to meet its international growth requirements. In addition, Presto File Server's licensing policy provides the flexibility to easily scale the bandwidth as needed for the company's growth.
Supporting centralized storage of the Btrfs file system also reduces storage usage due to unnecessary redundancy, as Btrfs snapshots and copy-on-write replication effectively reduce the amount of data stored and significantly speed up the workload.
Synology's feature-rich data solution further enables 60% total cost savings compared to previously used transmission accelerators.
In addition, it also found that the Synology data security features licensed by MITRE Corporation as CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) also benefited itself.
It has been closely monitoring the potential security threats posed by deployed technologies and solutions. “CVE IDs that assign their own vulnerabilities to suppliers who take security issues seriously are critical,” concludes its security expert, Mr. Tuček.
