Prolane installs 2.5 PB AI archive for UAE Pro League

PROLANE Media has built a 2.5 petabyte AI-powered archive for UAE Pro League in Dubai to preserve media assets and make them easier to search, reuse and expand over time. The system combines Axle AI, Symply, GBLabs and Archiware in a cloud-ready workflow for sports content management.

Why it matters: - UAE Pro League now has a searchable media archive designed to turn historical footage into an active content asset. - The 2.5 PB system is built to support broadcast production, digital and social media, documentaries, sponsor activations and new content creation. - The archive is designed to grow and can extend into cloud storage as future requirements change.

What happened: - PROLANE Media delivered an advanced media archiving and digitization solution for UAE Pro League in Dubai. - The project launches with 2.5 petabytes of initial archive capacity. - PROLANE designed the architecture to scale and to support future hybrid on-premises and cloud archive strategies. - The solution integrates axle.ai, Symply, GBLabs and Archiware into one media ecosystem.

The details: - Axle AI provides the media asset management platform and its in-house-developed AI engine. - Axle AI’s AI technology analyzes media and enriches assets with searchable information. - The system reduces manual work tied to reviewing, describing and organizing large volumes of content. - Users can browse, search and rediscover footage across the archive. - The archive is built to help teams locate players, interviews, matches, goals, memorable moments and historical footage. - Symply provides a LTO-10 tape library for long-term preservation. - The archive environment combines high-performance online storage with LTO-based preservation. - GBLabs NAS storage serves as the shared storage layer for active media and archive operations. - Archiware P5 Archive manages archive workflows and automates movement between storage tiers and the Symply LTO environment. - The solution includes cloud-ready integration for additional future capacity.

Between the lines: - PROLANE is positioning the archive as a workflow platform, not just a storage repository. - The integration of AI search with preservation tooling reflects a broader shift in sports media toward faster reuse of existing content. - In a statement, Maroon Khalil, chief business officer at Prolane, said the goal was to make UAE Pro League’s content more intelligent, accessible and valuable. - Khalil said the system was built to expand on-premises and into cloud storage.

What's next: - UAE Pro League can expand capacity as media requirements grow. - The archive can incorporate cloud storage as part of a hybrid strategy. - The system is set up to help the league protect, discover and reuse sports content at scale. - PROLANE will continue to support the integrated media workflow across digitization, AI search, storage and archive automation.

The bottom line: - UAE Pro League now has a scalable, AI-enabled archive designed to preserve media heritage while making old and new content faster to find and reuse.