CatholicTV Stays One Step Ahead of Competition

CatholicTV modernizes its storage environment with Pure Storage for leading performance and long-term scalability.

Summary

For the past 30 years, CatholicTV has maintained success in the cable television industry by adapting early. With Pure Storage, CatholicTV gains a modern storage environment capable of supporting new technologies and media formats.

Industry

Media and Entertainment

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Modernize Data Protection
SMB

Website

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Challenges

The storage environment lacked the capacity and performance to support ultra-high definition video formats and data-intensive mediums such as virtual reality studio productions. Growing maintenance fees were also an issue for the non-profit.

Results

Business Transformation

Opens thousands of graphics files in just six seconds
Supports UHD formats with 3x storage capacity
Offers SMB support for VR video production systems

IT Transformation

3x capacity and 10x speed compared to legacy storage
Eliminates costs and downtime of regular storage upgrades
Faster recovery from cyber threats with storage snapshots

“As a non-profit, I can’t just throw out my technology every few years like a commercial TV operation. I need to think long term, and Pure FlashBlade was the answer to my prayers.”

Mark Quella, CTO

CatholicTV