By David Fox June 2025 update notes: A further update to this article, a couple of years on from 2023. Cloud storage costs from AWS have remained static, small increases from Wasabi and Backblaze. We’re switching to LTO-9 tapes for
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As soon as vendor of an Archive solution announces the discontinuation of the archive product, there are many open questions among users of their solution and sometimes even a slight panic. With the recent announcement of Sony “…that the Optical
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As digital media continues to grow in size and complexity, so does the need to preserve it reliably and affordably. In broadcast, post-production, and creative agencies, LTO tape remains the gold standard for long-term archive — offering high capacity, low
15 Storage and Data Management Trends for 2025
By Dr. Marc M. Batschkus 1. Growth of Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) Offerings On-premises StaaS solutions involve storage systems being installed and maintained at the customer’s location by StaaS providers. Capacity expansion, data backup, and disaster recovery (DR) can be managed easily
Data Air-Gaps: Protecting the Media and Entertainment Industry from Ransomware
In the media and entertainment industry, where large volumes of valuable media files are produced, edited, and stored, data security is paramount. The rise of ransomware attacks has created significant challenges for companies handling vast libraries of high-resolution videos, audio
Five Things You Need to Know About LTO
The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format has, for many years, been a key player in data storage, especially for the media and entertainment industries that require secure, long-term solutions for storing vast amounts of data. Here’s a look at five crucial
What is the 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Strategy and How to Use it?
by Dr. Marc M. Batschkus The Backup is the protection against multiple possible errors, mishaps and attacks. The Backup serves as a solution for occasional lost or deleted file or file version and as Disaster Recovery (DR). Any useful professional
Archived Media Data – Migrating for Security and Cost-Effectiveness
The current generation of LTO tape (LTO-9 released in 2021) stores 300% more data than the generation from 2015 (LTO-7). That’s 18TB today on LTO-9 versus just 6TB in 2017 on LTO-7. The same 18TB of data on an LTO-9
P5 Archive: Importing metadata, thumbnails and proxies into archive indexes from external sources
In this article and its accompanying video, we’ll describe a workflow for importing metadata, thumbnails and proxies into an existing archive index. Data already archived by P5 Archive and represented in an archive index, can have these additional items added,
Cloud Storage or LTO Tape for Media Archive – What’s the Best Choice in 2023?
By David Fox Cloud storage is ubiquitous in 2023, storing around 50% of corporate data at the time of writing. It’s relatively cheap, safe, compliant and requires no up-front expenditure on hardware and management. It’s also mature with Amazon’s leading
Generate mosaic-style video previews in P5 Archive
One of P5 Archive’s strengths is the mini-MAM function, which can capture thumbnails, proxies and metadata from media assets. This allows for the content of off-line media to be browsed visually in P5’s web-admin interface. The capture of thumbnails and
Archiware’s 4 Data Management trends for 2023
Being at the front-line in the battle often fought between incoming media data and storage constraints, Archiware is well placed to share a few predictions around trends in the storage and management of data. Here we continue our annual analysis
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P5 Archive allows large datasets to be archived to cloud storage by first obtaining a physical disk storage device from the cloud provider for archiving locally across your LAN, and then having this device shipped back to the cloud storage
10 Tips to Build an Effective Media Archive System for Your Business in 2023
What is the best way to archive video footage and media files? By Dr. Marc M. Batschkus 1. What Is a Media Archive System? A media archive system (MAS) is a collection of software and hardware designed to store and
Archive Storage Flexibility and Tiering with P5 Data Mover
In our June 2022 Spotlight article, titled “Comparison of LTO and Cloud storage costs for media archive“, we provided a comprehensive comparison of media archive storage costs, and uncovered some interesting and perhaps alarming differences in cost and convenience. In
Comparison of LTO and Cloud Storage Costs for Media Archive
By David Fox Information about prices and services in this article are correct as of June 2022. In this article we’ll compare costs and convenience of storing archive data on LTO tapes versus cloud storage from various popular vendors. Many
Quick Guide to Configuring an LTO-Based Backup/Archive System
By Josef Doods The data management platform Archiware P5 offers a software for backup, P5 Backup as well as for Archive, P5 Archive. Arching data in a company is a task that guarantees the long-term preservation of data. Configuring a
Best Way to Archive Video Files and Media Assets in 2022
More video is produced every year and so more files need to be held on storage and finally archived. Let’s first take a closer look at Archive and what makes it different from Backup. Definition of Backup vs Archive Backup
Archiware’s 4 Data Management Trends for 2022
Being at the front-line in the battle often fought between incoming media data and storage constraints, Archiware is well placed to share a few predictions around trends in the storage and management of data. Based on feedback from our partners
Using P5 version 7 with cloud transfer device: Backblaze B2 Fireball
Note that this article refers to P5 version 7, released July 2021. For previous versions of P5, refer to this article for configuration of the AWS Snowball and this article for configuring P5 for use with a Backblaze Fireball. In
