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Tripp McCune, EVP, CIO, Deutsch, Inc.

Tripp McCuneExecutive Vice President,Chief Information Officer

Deutsch is a fully integrated agencyknown for award-winning creative campaigns • Creative advertising• Media planning• Digital marketing• Multicultural marketing• Public relations• Social media• Design• Branded entertainment• Experiential marketing

One of the world’s most innovative companies in Advertising

–Fast Company, 2014

Number Two, Agency A-List

–Ad Age, 2015

Storage Challenges:

Digital Assets are the lifeblood of our business

• Over 30M assets

• Over 160TB of data

Storage Challenges:

• 950 users with digital production, print studios

and video edit suites in NY and LA

• Adobe Premier, Photoshop, InDesign, Nuke

Studio, Cinema 4D

Storage Challenges:

Tipping point for better storage solution

• Aging systems based on Apple XSAN/Promise

• Previous storage solution unable to keep up with

demands

• Superstorm Sandy in 2012

Los Angeles

The big questionHow do you replicate 160TB of data between one office…

Dot Hill storage solution: one

Digital Asset Management• Xinet

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Dot Hill storage arrays with both iSCSI and Fibre Channel

- Replication option

- Snapshot and replication software

- Proven high availability and reliability

• SilverPeak WAN Acceleration

Dot Hill storage solution: two

Video post-production editing• Dot Hill storage arrays

- iSCSI and Fibre Channel

- Proven high availability and reliability

• Adobe Premier, Nuke Studio, Cinema 4D

• Quantum StorNext Data Management

4K Workflows in Digital Advertising

• 4K/UHD Video is becoming the standard

• Capture assets with rich content

- Post production- Future re-purposing

• Requires more storage

This differentiates our agency

1.08 TB

TraditionalDigital Video

4.3 TB

4KProjection

Capacity per hour of uncompressed video

What we are able to accomplish• System installed and operational in only 30 days

• Replicate 300GB/day of block level images

• No measurable performance degradation

Daily replication scenario• We change stuff, we save it, and we go to bed

• Dot Hill replicates to the other office

• We get out of bed, we change stuff

• And so on…

End result“We are really impressed that the Dot Hill AssuredSAN solution is able to accommodate our data replication and deliver the performance and support needed.”

–Tripp McCune