49ers Stadium Case Study
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Case Study: San Francisco 49ers / Levi’s® Stadium
The Most Technologically Advanced Stadium in All of Professional Sports “The San Francisco 49ers and Violin Memory are very much aligned.” ETHAN CASSON, Chief Revenue Officer, San Francisco 49ers
Levi’s® Stadium
Levi’s Stadium Fast Facts • 1,162 sq. ft. of state-‐of-‐the-‐art solar panels
• 27,000 sq. ft. “green roof” • Gold LEED Certified • Registered with the U.S. Green Building Council
• Seating for up to 83,000 • Opened in 2014 San Francisco 49er Fast Facts • Five Super Bowl Victories • Six NFC Conference Championships • 19 NFC West Division Championships • 26 Playoff appearances • 23 members, NFL Hall of Fame • 65 years as an NFL Franchise
When Levi’s® Stadium opened in 2014, venue management aspired to provide the best possible fan experience, a model for sustainability and the most technologically advanced sports venue in the world, offering a new wireless, paperless, 21st century venue where everything from instant replay to food orders to post game traffic could be accessed from any digital device, from any seat. The stadium’s green roof serves several purposes, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife and helping to lower air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. In addition a massive array of state-‐of-‐the-‐art solar panels helps provide power on game days and for daily stadium operations. “Innovation inside of the 49ers’ organization is really at the core of our DNA. To build out the vision of a technology showcase we wanted to lean on some of the leaders here in Silicon Valley,” said Ethan Casson, Chief Revenue Officer, San Francisco 49ers.
The San Francisco 49ers, an original member of the new All-‐America Football Conference (AAFC), were the first major league professional sports franchise based in San Francisco, and one of the first major league professional sports teams based on the Pacific Coast. The team joined the Los Angeles Rams of the rival National Football League as the first "big four"-‐sport playing in the Western United States in 1946, eventually becoming part of the NFL themselves in 1950.
The San Francisco 49ers In 2012, the San Francisco 49ers assessed the data storage competition and chose Violin Memory’s 6232 All Flash Array to store, protect and access a wide range of mission critical data, including playbooks developed every week based on opponent scouting reports, and scouting reports on prospects and potential draft candidates. “Coaches and scouts want information instantaneously. We have many years of historical data, and so we bring all of that data into a single player profile so the scouts and coaches can go to one place and get everything,” said Steve Wagner, Manager of Football Systems, San Francisco 49ers. “On the analytics’ side, we run some tools and models that are computationally intensive and will really benefit from Violin’s performance,” Wagner added.
Violin Memory, Inc. | 4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U SA Tel: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1500 • Fax: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1543 | www.violin-‐memory.com ©2016 V iolin Memory, Inc. All r ights r eserved. These products and technologies are protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual p roperty laws. Violin Memory is a registered trademark of Violin Memory, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions
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Case Study: San Francisco 49ers / Levi’s® Stadium
Violin Memory 7300 Flash Storage Platform Fast Facts • Consistent < ms I/O latency • Granular, inline dedupe, compression • Thin provisioning, cloning • Native, mirroring, replication, stretch clustering
• Application and crash consistent snapshots
• Single pane management anywhere in the world
• Up to 70 TB raw, 217 TB effective
Over the course of almost seven decades years, the team has collected vast quantities of audio and video data, and needed a fast, secure storage platform to support rapid access of these important digitized assets. Image archival history, including the photographs shown in the museum at Levi’s Stadium, are stored on the Violin 7300 FSP in the 49ers Data Center. “We have image data going back almost seven decades back. The images we have represent what the team stands for, innovation, a very deep bond, a family bond between the fans and the players. In an effort to preserve these photographs, we have digitized them. We’ve cleaned them up and added metadata to them easily searchable,” said Robert Alberino, Executive Producer, San Francisco 49ers.
Violin Memory 7300 Flash Storage Platform With time, the 49ers data sets grew in ways that traditional IT and business leaders outside the world of professional sports would recognize. In 2015, the 49ers IT team again chose Violin Memory to provide additional capacity and data protection features available in the 7300 70 Terabyte (TB) Flash Storage Platform (FSP), doubling the capacity of the previous All Flash Array and giving the 49ers access to a wide range of data protection features. In addition to integrating a wide range of data services into the operating system for performance, reliability, and scalability, the 7300 Flash Storage Platform offers user selectable, block-‐level inline de-‐duplication and compression to give customers like the San Francisco 49ers maximum storage efficiency. The 7300 supports mixed and multiple workload environments across an entire range of primary storage requirements. “The protection of that data is extremely important and using Violin to help us protect it is really a key piece of our data management and data protection plan,” said Robert Alberino, Executive Producer, San Francisco 49ers.
Violin Memory, Inc. | 4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U SA Tel: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1500 • Fax: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1543 | www.violin-‐memory.com
©2016 V iolin Memory, Inc. All r ights r eserved. T hese products and technologies are p rotected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual p roperty laws. Violin Memory is a registered trademark of Violin Memory, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions
Case Study: San Francisco 49ers / Levi’s® Stadium
The Most Technologically Advanced Stadium in All of Professional Sports “The San Francisco 49ers and Violin Memory are very much aligned.” ETHAN CASSON, Chief Revenue Officer, San Francisco 49ers
Levi’s® Stadium
Levi’s Stadium Fast Facts • 1,162 sq. ft. of state-‐of-‐the-‐art solar panels
• 27,000 sq. ft. “green roof” • Gold LEED Certified • Registered with the U.S. Green Building Council
• Seating for up to 83,000 • Opened in 2014 San Francisco 49er Fast Facts • Five Super Bowl Victories • Six NFC Conference Championships • 19 NFC West Division Championships • 26 Playoff appearances • 23 members, NFL Hall of Fame • 65 years as an NFL Franchise
When Levi’s® Stadium opened in 2014, venue management aspired to provide the best possible fan experience, a model for sustainability and the most technologically advanced sports venue in the world, offering a new wireless, paperless, 21st century venue where everything from instant replay to food orders to post game traffic could be accessed from any digital device, from any seat. The stadium’s green roof serves several purposes, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife and helping to lower air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. In addition a massive array of state-‐of-‐the-‐art solar panels helps provide power on game days and for daily stadium operations. “Innovation inside of the 49ers’ organization is really at the core of our DNA. To build out the vision of a technology showcase we wanted to lean on some of the leaders here in Silicon Valley,” said Ethan Casson, Chief Revenue Officer, San Francisco 49ers.
The San Francisco 49ers, an original member of the new All-‐America Football Conference (AAFC), were the first major league professional sports franchise based in San Francisco, and one of the first major league professional sports teams based on the Pacific Coast. The team joined the Los Angeles Rams of the rival National Football League as the first "big four"-‐sport playing in the Western United States in 1946, eventually becoming part of the NFL themselves in 1950.
The San Francisco 49ers In 2012, the San Francisco 49ers assessed the data storage competition and chose Violin Memory’s 6232 All Flash Array to store, protect and access a wide range of mission critical data, including playbooks developed every week based on opponent scouting reports, and scouting reports on prospects and potential draft candidates. “Coaches and scouts want information instantaneously. We have many years of historical data, and so we bring all of that data into a single player profile so the scouts and coaches can go to one place and get everything,” said Steve Wagner, Manager of Football Systems, San Francisco 49ers. “On the analytics’ side, we run some tools and models that are computationally intensive and will really benefit from Violin’s performance,” Wagner added.
Violin Memory, Inc. | 4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U SA Tel: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1500 • Fax: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1543 | www.violin-‐memory.com ©2016 V iolin Memory, Inc. All r ights r eserved. These products and technologies are protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual p roperty laws. Violin Memory is a registered trademark of Violin Memory, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions
01-‐0106 rev 1.0r 01/16
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Case Study: San Francisco 49ers / Levi’s® Stadium
Violin Memory 7300 Flash Storage Platform Fast Facts • Consistent < ms I/O latency • Granular, inline dedupe, compression • Thin provisioning, cloning • Native, mirroring, replication, stretch clustering
• Application and crash consistent snapshots
• Single pane management anywhere in the world
• Up to 70 TB raw, 217 TB effective
Over the course of almost seven decades years, the team has collected vast quantities of audio and video data, and needed a fast, secure storage platform to support rapid access of these important digitized assets. Image archival history, including the photographs shown in the museum at Levi’s Stadium, are stored on the Violin 7300 FSP in the 49ers Data Center. “We have image data going back almost seven decades back. The images we have represent what the team stands for, innovation, a very deep bond, a family bond between the fans and the players. In an effort to preserve these photographs, we have digitized them. We’ve cleaned them up and added metadata to them easily searchable,” said Robert Alberino, Executive Producer, San Francisco 49ers.
Violin Memory 7300 Flash Storage Platform With time, the 49ers data sets grew in ways that traditional IT and business leaders outside the world of professional sports would recognize. In 2015, the 49ers IT team again chose Violin Memory to provide additional capacity and data protection features available in the 7300 70 Terabyte (TB) Flash Storage Platform (FSP), doubling the capacity of the previous All Flash Array and giving the 49ers access to a wide range of data protection features. In addition to integrating a wide range of data services into the operating system for performance, reliability, and scalability, the 7300 Flash Storage Platform offers user selectable, block-‐level inline de-‐duplication and compression to give customers like the San Francisco 49ers maximum storage efficiency. The 7300 supports mixed and multiple workload environments across an entire range of primary storage requirements. “The protection of that data is extremely important and using Violin to help us protect it is really a key piece of our data management and data protection plan,” said Robert Alberino, Executive Producer, San Francisco 49ers.
Violin Memory, Inc. | 4555 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U SA Tel: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1500 • Fax: 1-‐650-‐396-‐1543 | www.violin-‐memory.com
©2016 V iolin Memory, Inc. All r ights r eserved. T hese products and technologies are p rotected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual p roperty laws. Violin Memory is a registered trademark of Violin Memory, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions
