IT and Culture: HP launches Paul McCartney’s cloud-based digital library

HP has recently announced the launch of Paul McCartney’s private cloud-based digital library.

McCartney’s collection currently includes more than 1 million items, including photographs; video footage from live concerts; rolls of film, videotapes and reels; music recordings; original works of art; as well as memorabilia. With HP, McCartney’s personal assets are now digitized.

HP Enterprise Services experts worked with MPL Communications, Ltd. to plan, develop, integrate and test the library. The library is built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on modular building blocks of HP servers, storage, networking and management software. The assets are housed in a private cloud managed from HP commercial data centers.

Consumers today demand instant access, using a myriad of devices, from any location, at any time. With MPL Communications, Ltd.’s former technology infrastructure, finding specific assets from McCartney’s collection could be a complex and time-consuming process. HP Information Optimization solutions provide an optimized repository of the content, allowing the organization to be quicker, nimbler and smarter by gaining access to the right information when it is needed.

This solution provides the flexibility required to deal with its rapidly expanding library and to ensure the security of McCartney’s priceless assets. MPL Communications, Ltd. will house a copy locally of the digital library to reduce the organization’s dependence on the speed of the local telecommunication system to upload or download assets from the private cloud. HP will maintain a redundant system in a remote data facility, with a full replication of the digital library.