Backblaze Case Study: The Best Offense Is a Good Data Defense for Super-Bowl Winning Football Team
Story Highlights
With multiple championships behind them, one NFL franchise had decades of incredible content to mine and protect, but they needed to draft and train up some new technical assets to stay in contention. Slow data access, no geographic redundancy, and an aging, cumbersome, and failure-prone tape archive were all threatening the IT team’s championship mindset. The team turned to Backblaze and its partners to architect a next-gen storage and media-management solution that could bring them into the modern age.
The IT team integrated a new Quantum QXS storage area network (SAN) and Mimir, a cloud-based video collaboration and production platform, for on-site media workflows, and added Backblaze B2 for storage—all so they can rapidly upload and access game day footage and photography. They shifted 380TB off an aging SAN and hundreds of terabytes off of LTO-6 at zero cost using Backblaze Universal Data Migration. And, they use Backblaze Cloud Replication to ensure that every byte is safely replicated to an additional remote data center.
After their offseason training level-up, the digital ops team found they were ready for the next postseason push: They had doubled their data protection, cleared out their LTO storage room, and opened up remote workflows to lessen the burden of game day all-nighters. Their archives are now easily accessible for future monetization and their infrastructure can scale during the coming seasons and beyond.
