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Remote Media Production Company Consolidating Shade and Wasabi
Company Situation
The company operates in the remote video podcast production industry, supporting a fully distributed team primarily based in the United States with a small portion of team members located internationally. Their workflow involves producing weekly video podcasts with multiple camera angles and extremely large file sizes, often totaling terabytes of data transferred and stored on a weekly basis. The company is experiencing rapid growth and is seeking a scalable, resilient solution for managing and transferring these large media assets efficiently.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company uses Shade’s basic package alongside Wasabi cloud storage to handle their file uploads and collaborative workflows. Their team uploads and accesses video content remotely, working across different geographic locations. The video editors and producers handle multiple large files, averaging hundreds of gigabytes per episode, with weekly turnover. Communication and issue resolution happen through platforms like Discord.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
The company faces significant technical challenges related to upload speeds and connectivity consistency. Despite high local internet speeds (up to 800 Mbps), uploads frequently throttle or experience fluctuating performance. This causes delays and inefficiencies in their production pipeline. Additionally, the distributed nature of their team—with members both in the U.S. and Europe—complicates server and storage location choices, leading to suboptimal data routing and slower transfers for international team members. They also lack clarity on how to optimize their current setup or whether moving to a higher-tier Shade package or bringing their own storage would alleviate these issues.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade can improve their workflow by enabling the company to select geographically appropriate server regions for their storage drives, allowing U.S.-based team members to connect to a U.S. server and European members to use an EU server. This setup reduces latency and improves upload and download speeds across the distributed team. Additionally, upgrading to a more advanced Shade package would provide greater control over drive settings and access, facilitating better management of large file workflows. Shade’s support and guidance also assist companies in migrating data to new drives with optimized server locations without disrupting ongoing projects. This approach ensures a resilient, scalable infrastructure tailored for large-scale, remote video production operations.
Benefits
- Improved upload and download speeds through geographically optimized server selection
- Enhanced reliability and reduced connection fluctuations for remote, distributed teams
- Scalable storage solutions that can grow with the company’s rapidly expanding workload
- Simplified data migration and management between drives and servers without downtime
- Dedicated support and troubleshooting to resolve technical issues promptly
- Increased productivity by minimizing upload bottlenecks and file transfer delays
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