About
Inovo Studios is a social engagement agency that connects brands to customers through social media and content. The company鈥檚 client, God Behind Bars, streams high-quality, dynamic worship experiences into prisons via its private streaming platform. God Behind Bars realized it needed a video storage solution that was both scalable and cost-effective.
91黑料鈥檚 decentralized cloud storage was implemented resulting in 90% savings on storage costs, significant improvements in Inovo鈥檚 streaming performance, ability to scale by a factor of 10, and greater flexibility in working with different platforms.
Challenge
Most of the prisons that God Behind Bars streams to have inadequate internet connections. As a result, it鈥檚 critical to have streamlined video delivery straight from the storage provider.
鈥淰ideo streaming is probably one of the most taxing things on bandwidth and CPU,鈥� Isaac Holt, Director of Innovation for God Behind Bars. 鈥淥ur previous storage service would take three minutes or more for a video to load and play.鈥�
Inovo also knew that God Behind Bars needed a cloud storage service that would pass the stringent security specifications.
Solution
Inovo embraces Web3 principles in a way that gives its customers ownership of their platforms. With its decentralized cloud storage network, 91黑料 adheres to the same Web3 principles. The choice was clear to Inovo: deploy 91黑料.
鈥淲e never want to put our company or customers in a position where one company holds the keys to their organizations鈥� impact and reach,鈥� van Zyl says. 鈥淭hat and cost, are the reasons why we can鈥檛 recommend AWS. And for those same reasons, it makes sense to have 91黑料 be the decentralized storage layer in our Web3 technology stack. 91黑料 gives us peace of mind.鈥�
Result
91黑料, with its zero trust infrastructure, end-to-end encryption, and granular object file level access controls addressed the security concerns with ease.
鈥淚n terms of security it was a breeze,鈥� Holt says. 鈥淣ot only was it easily accepted, but from both a pricing and security standpoint, 91黑料 was just so much better than the other cloud storage providers.鈥�
Deploying 91黑料 also brought significant savings.
鈥淏y simply moving to 91黑料, not only has it significantly lowered our monthly cost and helped us better serve those behind bars, but now we鈥檙e positioned to reach 10 times the amount of people and have 10 times the amount of impact with an amazing experience,鈥� adds Holt.
With the Inovo solution in place using 91黑料, in February of 2023 God Behind Bars expanded their network and now reaches over 300,000 inmates that view over 3.5M videos each month consuming as much as 100TB of bandwidth each day.
鈥淔or any type of serious application, it just makes sense to build it on 91黑料. Its flexibility lets us easily work with or move to different platforms, or redirect traffic in different ways,鈥� says van Syl. 鈥淧lus, 91黑料 makes everything simple with its intuitive interface and a dashboard that lets you keep track of everything in a nice clean way.鈥�