We understand our customers need to focus on creative content while simultaneously sharing, safeguarding, and coordinating volumes of original media. We apply expert knowledge and decades of experience in all aspects of media creation to help you build, maintain, and refine key tools and methods for your business and your craft. See our guide below for the types of solutions and clientele who benefit from Shared Storage and Media Asset Management.
Are you looking for Shared Storage and Media Asset Management Solutions?
In mid-2018, Rule Boston Camera saw interesting opportunities in the Boston and New England market and decided to reshape our product range for shared storage solution and media asset management. By consolidating brands and streamlining our offerings, we were able to work collaboratively with manufacturers such as EditShare, Facilis, ProMAX, Quantum and Avid and their shared storage solution products, as well as Sony, CatDV and Axle along with their media asset management products. This allowed us to offer the best integrated solutions — enabling clients of any size to acquire, modify, distribute, repurpose and deliver their digital media assets efficiently and effectively.
Who are the clients and what are the industries that would benefit from Shared Storage/MAM solutions?
One of the great things about what we do is that we get to interact with a broad spectrum of content producers, from one-man shops to global conglomerates. What we’ve learned over the past decade is that, to one degree or another, all of our clients can benefit from some type of shared storage solution. Read on for sample case studies from some recent installations.
Company A – Large National Health Insurance Company:
As part of their in-house production strategy, they built-out 3 edit suites and a related server room. To complement this set up, we sold and installed a Facilis TerraBlock 24EX/16 – 128TB as their primary tier and Facilis TX16 TerraBlock Capacity Expansion – 128TB. We also supplied a 10GbE switch through Facilis enabling them to take advantage of 10GbE speeds along with a Middle Atlantic 4431 server rack to house the server. Additionally, they requested editing/post-production software which included Adobe, AE Scripts, Telestream, Red Giant, and Video Copilot. We also provided ancillary edit/post-production products such as TVLogic monitors, Genelec Speakers, Mackie Distributors, AJA 4K IO’s and Wacom Tablets, rounding out a turn-key experience for the client.
Company B – Local Premier Post-Production House:
One of our oldest clients presented us with a brief for 72TB of storage, upgrade to 10GbE speeds for 5 users and a reliable MAM program. We consulted with several of our shared storage partners, who in turn presented their solutions, with the client finally settling comfortably with an EditShare shared storage and MAM solution. We spec’d and installed an EditShare XStream EFS 200-72TB solution that included server, 5 seats of EditShare Flow MAM, 2 x File Ingests and 25 Ark Tape licenses. Additionally, we spec’d and installed a Netgear NG-XS728T 10GbE switch as well as 5 x ATTO ThunderLink NT 2102 10GbE with RJ45 adaptors for their users for 10GbE speeds.
Company C – Global Advertising Agency:
Another longtime client of ours, a large advertising agency, was looking to refresh their post-production department consisting of 4 edit suites and a new server room. The brief was clear, they required completely new future-proof technical capabilities, for which we needed to supply, integrate and install all the equipment on an accelerated schedule. On the shared storage side, we worked with Facilis and spec’d an integrated solution that included a Facilis TerraBlock 24D – 192TB as the primary server that included 5 seats of their proprietary Fast Tracker MAM, a Facilis LTO7 LTFS Backup 2U 24-Slot Autoloader Kit dual tape drive, Archiware P5 Archive edition archiving/backup software, mLogic mTape LTO7 direct attached LTO data tape drive, Imagine PreRoll Post software, OWC 24TB 6-Drive HDD Storage, Middle Atlantic 3731 server rack, power solutions and a 10GbE RJ45 switch for high-speed connections. For edit/post-production equipment, we spec’d and installed (1 per suite) Apple iMac 27” 4K 10-core computers, Flanders Scientific DM240 monitors, Flanders Scientific AM420 monitors, Tangent Element Bundle panels, JBL speakers, Blackmagic UltraStudio 4K IO’s, and, for software, we supplied and installed Adobe Creative Cloud, Maxon Cinema 4D, and DaVinci Resolve.
Who is the best contact to discuss my Shared Storage and Media Asset Management needs?
Whether you need to create, share, or store your digital assets, we are here to integrate and scale any solution to fit the needs of your business and your budget.
Our team is happy to help by starting with an assessment of your Shared Storage and Media Asset Management needs. Please contact us by email at sales@rule.com or by phone at 800-rule-com to get the conversation started.
-Dan Gruenpeter, Business Development Manager
Our Facilis TerraBlock rental system has just come back from a long term rental and our clients were so thrilled with the capabilities and performance that they decided to buy their own permanent system. We just completed that installation for them, and it’s been gratifying to see them leverage this system for added efficiency AND creativity.
Way back in 1992, we were the first rental house in the country to rent mobile computer-based edit systems and it’s something we’ve excelled in ever since. Over the past few years, as workflows have gotten more complicated and collaboration in Post has become more prevalent, we’ve found that small shared storage systems (this one is 48TB) have become more and more necessary.
The TerraBlock shared storage system is perfect for smaller workgroups that are built to grow. Editors, colorists, and producers will be much more efficient, with their media and projects easy to access, share, and find. Safety is heightened also, as it becomes so much easier to back up the media since it is not spread out across multiple workstations.
Rent this shared storage system if you’re temporarily scaling up for a larger project and you’re looking to give your post team a flexible, secure and efficient environment for the media.
Didn’t your mother always tell you to share?
-John Rule, President
You may only know us as a production equipment rental house. What you may not know is that we are a fully-equipped and knowledgable service house, too. Whether you are looking for monitor calibrations, custom training sessions, consultation, equipment maintenance, or shared storage check-ups and improvements, we’ve got your back! All services are available on an a la carte basis, however, we also offer one of the best-valued service programs in the industry today. Rule+ enables you to access all of our services whenever you need them.
Rule+, our customized pre-paid service spending program, is built to provide the highest level of assurance to agencies, in-house and external production companies, owner-operators, and post-production houses. Available in four service levels — Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum — Rule+ ensures that you are able to extract the maximum value from your gear with minimum hassle. Not only does each service level enable you to use any of your pre-paid credit against any of our services at a generous discount, we also throw-in many value-added incentives such as periodic check-ups, priority tech support, FREE monitor calibrations, rental credits, and FREE local delivery for our Platinum clients.
“EXPERT HELP FOR CONSISTENT OUTPUT!”
Who uses Rule+?
Every organization, large or small, can take advantage of Rule+ benefits as any of our plans can be customized to suit any company size. Our current clients include leading advertising agencies, leading local and ivy league academic institutions, and in-house agencies with global brand organizations, as well as Boston’s premiere sports teams.
Justin Peterson, Director, Digital Content Production at the Boston Celtics 
explains:
“Expert help for consistent output! As we grew and began mixing and matching cameras and monitors, we noticed inconsistencies. Some monitors ran red, while others ran blue. Our Sony ENG and Canon C-line cameras didn’t mesh well. Rule+ allowed us to get expert help in painting our cameras, and properly calibrating our monitors for consistency. We no longer question who’s monitor is the right color. Rule+ was an easy way for us to ensure we had the necessary resources included in our budget so we could focus on our job; producing high quality content”.
Contact us today to see which Rule+ plan best suits your needs!