Tab Butler, Laura Thommen To Represent Platina Systems at Upcoming SVG Summit on Dec. 13-14

Media and entertainment industry veterans Tab Butler and Laura Thommen will be representing Platina Systems at the upcoming SVG Summit. Butler and Thommen, who have more than 60 years of combined industry experience, will discuss the challenges that attendees face and how Platina can help solve them.

SVG Summit, the premier event for the sports and live event production industry, takes place Dec. 13-14 in New York.

“The public cloud wasn’t built for media and entertainment workflows and the massive amounts of data that they work with,” says Mark Yin, Platina Systems co-founder and CEO. “We’re thrilled that Tab and Laura will be at SVG Summit to help attendees understand how they can take back full control over their workflows, processes and costs with Platina.”

Public Cloud Benefits in the Private Cloud
Public cloud computing has brought tremendous value to organizations but has also introduced new challenges for media and entertainment companies:

• Cloud storage is cost-prohibitive at petabyte scale, primarily because of punitive egress charges.
• Tapes create more challenges than solutions for companies that require multi-user access with millisecond performance.
• Companies develop multiple homegrown solutions for common workflows but eventually find that these solutions become complex and can’t scale.

Platina Systems brings all of the benefits of the public cloud to the private cloud, enabling enterprises to realize the true value of their data — and to do so with controlled costs.

Platina helps organizations combine storage and computing into a single cluster, enabling faster access, reliability and scalability — and up to 75% savings compared to siloed storage technologies.

Platina’s flagship product, Platina Command Center, provides policy management, visibility and insights across all of your clustered storage, compute and networking resources, enabling you to manage your infrastructure just like the hyperscale public cloud providers do, but at private cloud scale.

The latest release, Platina Command Center 1.7.1, supports Ubuntu 20.04 operating system provisioning and Ceph Octopus on Ubuntu 20.04. By using Ceph-backed storage in a private cloud, enterprises can simplify infrastructure operations at a fraction of the cost of using outside storage.