NBC Olympics to produce Tokyo 2020 with Dell Storage Solutions

Dell EMC PowerScale storage systems will enable NBC Olympics to store and manage petabytes of Tokyo 2020 content.

PowerScale will be used to preserve all content recorded during the Tokyo Olympics so that it can be shared with NBC Olympics U.S. viewers. The system incorporates Dell EMC OneFS software, which unifies storage clusters “into a single intelligent file system.”

All data from Tokyo 2020, which runs from July 23 to Aug. 8, will be stored at two NBC Olympics production locations: one in Japan and one, remotely, in the United States.

Jeff Boudreau, president and general manager of Dell Technologies’ Infrastructure Solutions Group, is “honored” to have been chosen by NBC to “bring the powerful stories of victory and defeat to viewers worldwide.” “With Dell EMC PowerScale, NBC Olympics will reliably store and simply manage more than 7,000 hours of athletic heroics across its networks and streaming platforms while making the experience for those watching remotely better than ever,” says Boudreau.

Meanwhile, Darryl Jefferson, vice president of broadcast operations and technology for NBC Olympics, notes that Dell EMC PowerScale solutions “takes seamless collaboration to a truly global scale with the geo-diverse teams that produce the NBC Olympics.” Jefferson also adds that “the scalable and flexible storage enables teams to exchange video and other content for our multi-platform deliveries.”