Overall storage for media and entertainment is expected to grow at 420% per year reaching 264EB by 2024. [1]
Over 174EB of new storage will be needed to convert analog film and tape into digital archives.[2]
Cloud storage for M&E expected to grow 1,200% per year to 105EB by 2024.[2]
Is your content underachieving? Are siloed repositories constraining productions? Get to the next level—and deepen audience relationships—with optimized digital content workflows.
Trust NetApp systems to manage, store, and access content for diverse media workflows. Stay competitive with unrivaled performance from a portfolio of data management and storage solutions. Unify existing NAS and SAN infrastructures and achieve data portability with hybrid cloud.


Free your creative team to access digital content when, where, and how they need it.
Massive data workflows place ever-increasing demands on your IT infrastructure. Meet data management challenges with virtually limitless compute and storage options.

Creativity is a process—you need end-to-end control of your content. With a powerful content and asset management foundation, you have a secure, robust platform for managing your growing data fabric.
Content needs to flow through high-performance systems to satisfy resource-hungry productions.

Get unbridled flexibility to tap delivery options some haven’t even imagined. From on-premises to cloud environments, stitch your content together on an integrated data fabric for media.
Cloud makes it possible. Reach beyond over-the-air playout and subscriber services. Distributors need content repositories that integrate seamlessly with production tools, transcode farms, and modern CDNs to provide maximum value to their clients.
Improve animation and rendering performance. Simplify news and other broadcast operations. Use built-in tools to take maximum advantage of private and public clouds.
ONTAP for media solution briefMaximize bandwidth for the most demanding media jobs including 8K. Support collaborative edit teams of any size. Work seamlessly with data management file system tools like Pixit Media.
E-Series for media solution briefCreate virtually infinite repositories of content for distribution and on-demand content. Build your own cloud for development and deployment of new services.
StorageGRID for media solution brief