EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Telecinco, Spain's leading private television channel, is using EMC® Celerra® with EMC Celerra® Multi-Path File System (MPFS), a patented technology that dramatically enhances file-sharing capabilities and accelerates performance of high-bandwidth, collaborative applications. Collaboration in digital video management environments like Telecinco’s require transparent data access with predictable levels of high performance, combined with simple and cost-effective scalability. The EMC solution, which was implemented by Omega Peripherals, a member of the EMC Velocity² Partner Program, is delivering increased overall productivity of media professionals ensuring fast access to the more than 120,000 hours of video stored in its digital archive.

Video stored on Telecinco’s archive is in high demand by users and continuously growing. Telecinco’s ability to maintain consistent service levels for their users accessing their digital assets is critical. To fully exploit the numerous content sources and channels, Telecinco selected the EMC Celerra with Celerra MPFS because of its superior technology and innovative capabilities to enable simultaneous collaboration between hundreds of users. Additionally, as video quality improves, so do the demands for storage capacity, simplified information management, and higher bandwidth. EMC’s patented MPFS technology allows the user to transparently share files from applications of any size, across tens of thousands of clients.

Pablo de la Peña, head of engineering at Telecinco confirms, "EMC Celerra MPFS has made the near 600,000 videos of the digital archive more available to more users and provides a better quality of service."

EMC Celerra and MPFS enabled clients communicate over the IP network to share metadata and control information using standard NAS protocols. When the MPFS agent receives a data request from the application, it uses Celerra-provided metadata to access the storage array directly using low latency and high-performance SAN. The EMC Celerra with Celerra MPFS technology supports the collaboration between NAS systems while taking advantage of the high performance output from SAN systems. This provides Telecinco with the scalability and capacity it needs to guarantee access to Telecinco's digital archive, and the flexible to handle future demands.

According to Ana Revilla, EMC’s sales director of Telecom, Industry and Services, "EMC is dedicated to providing solutions that help customers achieve the most value possible from one of their most important business assets—information. Telecinco is clearly a highly innovative company and we are pleased that it has entrusted EMC solutions."

Antonio Melé, director of Omega Peripherals said that "The implementation of this system allows Telecinco to put distance between itself and the competition by managing to improve a key issue for its business, namely quicker and more flexible access to its information from anywhere within the organisation."

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