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Fox Networks Group, an operating unit of News Corp., moved files its employees around the world use collaboratively to produce digital content, to the cloud storage infrastructure by Nirvanix.

Nirvanix gives Fox an infrastructure that makes content uploaded once accessible immediately anywhere around the world. It replicates files across its global data center network, and, once one copy of a file is changed, applies the change to all of its remaining copies.

Ben Hope, Fox’ senior VP and CIO, said the company expected the deployment to speed up the process of bringing creative content and business projects to market faster than other IT architectures.

“By incorporating the cloud as the core of our asset sharing and distribution strategy, we can improve production performance and reduce the costs of our workflows, and benefit from a pay-upon-content-ingest model as opposed to a CapEx-intensive model that requires us to pay for physical infrastructure even when it's not in use,” he said.

The Networks Group consists of Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Sports Media Group, national and regional cable programming services and an engineering and operations unit. Together, these produce a major part of all television content US audiences consume.

Earlier this month, the group’s president David Haslingden stepped down amid management restructuring, according to a Reuters report. This restructuring is part of a wider effort to separate Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. into stand-alone publishing and entertainment businesses.