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Producing better media workflows In tandem with VAN ROTHE, Seagate Lyve Mobile has taken its business solutions to another level – in terms of speed, technology and customer service W ith the pandemic fuelling consumer demand for high-quality streaming content, VAN ROTHE
charges for gear and overtime. With jobs piling up and technical specifications becoming increasingly complex, VAN ROTHE’s services were getting more and more expensive. Their solution: Bypassing slow network speeds with high-performance mobile storage and data transfers VAN ROTHE had been using LaCie® products for years and was confident in Seagate’s logistical and technical capabilities. VAN ROTHE relies on mobile storage to consolidate data on set and ingest it for post-production processing. But previous solutions were cost- prohibitive, due to unsustainable expenses associated with owning and scaling storage devices. With Lyve Mobile, VAN ROTHE saw an opportunity to grow its services faster, while reducing financial risk. Their success: Managing to strike a balance between innovative services, resource optimisation and improved working conditions
leveraged Seagate Lyve Mobile to alleviate data processing bottlenecks on set and in post-production. This empowered the film consulting company to balance its operating costs, delivery schedules and technician work-life harmony. Their problem: Industry growing pains meeting pandemic-era challenges The challenges of Covid-19 put VAN ROTHE’s services in high demand. Inundated by growing volumes of data to process, VAN ROTHE technicians were spending up to 18 hours on set just to wrangle client data. Because VAN ROTHE’s clients often provided them with outdated technology, the process for offloading data was incredibly inefficient. Furthermore, VAN ROTHE could not train people fast enough to perform this convoluted set of tasks. Not only did this inflate operating costs and delay post-production schedules, but it also created unnecessary security risks – a huge concern for major film studios, as they do not want their content to be leaked before scheduled release. Taken together, these challenges made it difficult for VAN ROTHE to deliver on its promise of cost-effective products and services with fast turnaround times. To turn a profit, the company needed to make a lot of money back on the expensive equipment it was having to purchase to complete its work. Clients expecting fast and cost- effective solutions were met with additional
COMPLETE PACKAGE Purpose-built for edge-to-cloud mass-data workflows, distribute business data anwywhere
THE ONLY CHOICE High volumes of data can be moved so easily, in a matter of days rather than weeks
“VAN ROTHE is now better equipped to scale its service offerings”
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