“Kaizen IT has been our preferred supplier and technology partner for over 10 years. As a global sports branding agency working at the highest level, we need to be at the forefront of creative technology, with speed and ease of communication at the heart of our client experience.
In the last 12 months, we have as a company re-structured and upgraded our Motion/Video department. Kaizen have been instrumental in making this happen as smoothly and effectively possible. We had initial in-house brainstorm into the kind of changes we wanted to make...These included: Maximising our existing 10GbE network and dedicated fibre line; increasing server bandwidth and capacity for more high resolution work; speeding up our 3D rendering pipeline; an overhaul to our backup and archiving workflows and a new video conferencing suite.
Kaizen then tirelessly worked with us to refine and aggregate these requests into a seamless & bespoke solution. The centre of this is a powerful SNS EVO server with multiple 10GbE & 1GbE clients with advanced video file management. Fed into this is a new multi-node rendering system. Daily backups are tackled by NAS systems that rapidly backup our mission-critical work both on and offsite.
Finally doing away with external HDDs and dated LTO tape systems for our archive has been a godsend and is now replaced with on/offsite NAS boxes that give us great near-line access to archived data, combined with solid redundancy.
The final task was to install a new video conferencing suite in our boardroom, so we can more effectively communicate with our predominently European and Global client base. All of this is effectively maintained and managed by Kaizen on a 24/7 basis.”
