"We wanted something that was simple to set up, was bulletproof, and could be supported in every city we travel to," Conley says.
He decided to go with the EMC. It didn't hurt that EMC is a local firm and was pursuing a sponsorship deal with the Red Sox around that time.
The Red Sox purchased a Clariion CX700 for their offices at Fenway Park and a CX500 to take on the road. Each has about 5 Tbytes of capacity. The club travels with every at-bat from 2005 and selected clips from 1999 through 2004 on its Clariion. EMC configured the road system with a special case to survive the grind of a summer of road trips. Conley's staff synchronizes the systems when the team returns home.
"We travel with more data than anybody else," Conley says. "We travel with a Clariion, server, and five or six laptops. We get the game feed in the clubhouse, and our video coordinator Billy Broadbent captures every at-bat on a laptop. You can't have technology in the dugout, so players go back into the clubhouse and watch."
None of the Red Sox's three IT staffers travel, so Broadbent serves as IT man on the road, setting up the systems that run a software program called Bats designed for digital audio. Conley says at least 10 other major league teams use the video program sold by Sydex Computer Systems, but he doesn't know of any others who travel with their own SAN. "Clubhouse guys on the other side can't stand when the Red Sox visit because we come with an 800-pound box," he says.
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