Western Digital’s HGST Branded System Archives One of the World’s Largest Collections of Live Jazz Music, Preserving & En...
March 07 2017 - 2:01AM
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HGST Active Archive System Selected by the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne to Store and Retrieve More
Than 17,000 Hours of Live Recordings from the Montreux Jazz
Festival
Delivering the possibilities of data, Western Digital Corp.
(NASDAQ: WDC) announced that the HGST Active Archive System, the
first in a family of products to include the ActiveScale™ P100 and
X100, is enabling the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL) to archive more than 17,000 hours’ worth of live music,
video, and data from the Montreux Jazz Festival to instantly enjoy,
study and interact with the content well into the future. Converted
from tape to digital format and stored on the HGST Active Archive
System, the performances and supporting data are easily accessible
in real-time and on-demand, removing physical and technological
barriers, and resulting in substantial research and production
workflow improvements at EPFL.
As part of the Montreux Jazz Digital Project, the HGST Active
Archive System stores and delivers live video and audio recordings
from a variety of concerts dating back to 1967. The recordings span
18 different media formats that were used to capture 11,000 hours
of video and 6,000 hours of audio from more than 5,000 concerts.
The archive is the most comprehensive collection of live music
footage ever created and contains classic performances from Marvin
Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Deep Purple, Eric
Clapton, and more, all of whom have performed at the Montreux Jazz
Festival. In recognition of its 50 years of music and video
archiving, the collection was inducted into the UNESCO Memory of
the World program in 2013.
“Quincy Jones declared the Montreux Jazz Festival archives to be
‘the most important testimonial to the history of music, covering
jazz, blues, and rock.’ As part of EPFL’s preservation and
valorization project, the HGST Active Archive System enables the
Montreux Jazz Digital Project to save irreplaceable video, audio,
and data for generations to come, eliminating many of the issues
presented by using tape in frequently accessed data archives. By
digitizing festival archives and storing them on the HGST Active
Archive System, this project is enabling future generations to
relive some of the greatest performances from legendary musicians,”
said Alain Dufaux, director of Operations and Development for the
Montreux Jazz Digital Project.
The HGST Active Archive System is an easy-to-deploy, Amazon
S3®-compliant, scale-out object storage system, upon which EPFL is
currently storing three petabytes (PB) of data and planning to
accommodate for a growth of 30 percent over the next five years.
EPFL deployed three HGST Active Archive Systems over three
locations in a geographically spread configuration to archive the
entire Montreux Jazz Festival files, allowing continuous data
access from any location – even in the event of a data center
outage. This configuration allows EPFL to protect its data through
erasure coding with higher reliability and at lower cost than a
traditional multi-copy approach, while delivering the accessibility
to support their services. This architecture ensures that the 15
generations of existing tape copies are maintained as required by
the UNESCO Memory of The World register, while simplifying
provisioning of select recordings to the public and all recordings
for research and study across EPFL.
“The HGST Active Archive System, as well as the new ActiveScale
systems, are perfectly suited to capture the entirety of the
Montreux Jazz Digital Project archives,” said Dave Tang, general
manager and senior vice president, Data Center Systems business
unit, Western Digital. “Creating a permanent home for 50 years of
live performances by countless legends of jazz, rock, and popular
music demands not only unwavering reliability and protection of
these priceless treasures, but also instant access so that they can
be enjoyed by generations to come.”
For more information about the Montreux Jazz Digital Project,
visit: http://metamedia.epfl.ch/.For more information about the
Montreux Jazz Festival, visit: http://montreuxjazz.com/.For more information about École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne, visit: http://www.epfl.ch.
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