From days to milliseconds
A global sports organisation needed to transform their 70-year, multi-petabyte broadcast archive from tape storage into a cloud-native system capable of serving content instantly at unlimited scale. The strategic vision existed. The path from intent to execution did not.
- 10+ PB
- Archive size
- 70 years
- Of footage
- O(1)
- Access time
Scaling blockers
Massive storage requirements, legacy asset management system, informed operational resistance and a permissions model that appeared unsolvable.
Cloud-native architecture
Massively parallelised ingestion, NoSQL metadata, sub-second search, edge-permissioned access control, and tiered storage management.
Culture and processes
Defined team culture, processes and tooling. Maintained momentum through commercial uncertainty. Led product definition through rapid iteration.
Outcome
The programme delivered successfully establishing an early beachhead for the strategic partnership, replacing a retrieval process measured in days with one measured in milliseconds.