Corporate Video Team Carries Company’s People-Centered Culture Around The World With StorNext

Founded more than 125 years ago, Barry-Wehmiller today is a fast-growing $2.5 billion global powerhouse serving the packing, corrugation, sheeting, and paper conversion industries. Its corporate vision stresses the importance of team members’ contributions and creating a culture of communication and personal fulfillment. The company’s CEO, Bob Chapman, is co-author of每个人都很重要：关心你的人喜欢家庭的非凡力量, which argues that companies ought to create a better world by building a broad community that includes team members, their families, suppliers and customers.

Communication Key to Corporate Culture

Maintaining that culture across more than 80 companies and 11,000 team members places a premium on effective communication—and Barry-Wehmiller relies on its corporate video team to play an important role. But the video team was hobbled by an aging infrastructure that wasn’t designed for video production, so they had a hard time keeping up with the demand.

Aging System Can’t Keep Up

“我们的视频制作系统使用了公司NAS菲尔公司的一股，这些公司没有专为视频生产而设计，无法跟上我们所需要的内容，”巴里 - 韦米尔生产商Chad Harris说。“绩效限制让它感到像我们的团队正在通过糖蜜贯穿 - 并在项目上进行合作，我们最终通过硬盘。我不得不审查Final Cut Pro的代理设置中的镜头，所以我无法真正讲述它看起来像什么。“

They decided to upgrade and called on 1303 Systems, an experienced integrator that specializes in video production environments. The needs were clear: increased performance, editing of files in place at native resolution, and direct file sharing. Equally important was making sure there was no negative impact on the corporate IT environment, and that system would be easy to install and maintain.

StorNext Pro Studio Provides the Answer

The team selected Quantum StorNext Pro Studio with 96TB of high-performance disk connected to a dedicated Fibre-Channel fabric. Pro Studio is a fully integrated turnkey media solution that includes Quantum’s StorNext software, an Xcellis Workflow Director, and high-speed RAID storage compatible with Apple environments. It provides high-speed file sharing over Fibre Channel that allows multiple editors to work on the same files at the same time at full resolution—dramatically decreasing the time required to complete projects. It also provides scalability and gives customers the option of setting up automated archiving.

“The 1303 team, which has been working with Barry-Wehmiller for several years, is experienced in providing StorNext support, and the service team at Quantum is terrific,” explains Thad Vaughn, vice president of operations and infrastructure at 1303 Systems. “They give corporate IT groups the same kind of backing that they give to specialized agencies, television production companies, and movie studios.”

Production Times Cut in Half, Improved Quality, and Important ROI

随着新系统到位，工作更快，编辑直接合作。过去60天的项目现已在25到30日结束。使用粒度代理设置的项目的日子是过度生产商可以在全分辨率中看到内容。“当我们带来量子时，我们不仅做一个4K镜头的流，我们正在做一些4K镜头的溪流，”哈里斯说。

“Since we’ve put the Quantum system in, we’ve not only been able to produce super high-quality production at a very fast turnaround, but we’ve been able to show management how important video is,” explains Elias Huch, Barry-Wehmiller video production leader. “And we’ve been able to show a really important return on investment.”