How can it help media production cope with rising HDD and flash storage prices? Media production starts with a critical step: ingesting content. Whether you’re working with footage from digital cameras, tapeless workflows, or archival sources, this first step lays the foundation for everything that follows.
Storage Under Pressure: Why the HDD and SSD Shortage Is the Perfect Time to Rethink Archiving
By David Fox For years, the answer to growing storage requirements in media and entertainment environments has been remarkably simple: buy more storage. When production teams filled a NAS, SAN, or cloud tier, additional capacity was ordered. As projects accumulated,
Archiware P5 Archive and Large Enterprise Requirements
By Josef Doods Driven by growing storage demands and the associated spiking costs, we are receiving an increasing number of inquiries from large enterprises and institutional organizations. These organizations have accumulated very large volumes of data over the years and
HSM in Theory vs Reality: Why Media Organisations Need a Lighter, Faster Approach
Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) is often presented as an elegant answer to a familiar problem: how to balance fast, expensive storage with slower, cheaper long-term tiers such as tape or cloud. On paper, HSM promises seamless access to archived data,
Comparison of LTO and Cloud Storage Costs for Media Archive
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
8 steps to deal with discontinuation of the Sony ODA Archive solution and how to migrate an existing ODA installation
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
5 Reasons Archiware P5 Is the Most Versatile Cross-Platform Tool for LTO Archiving
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 und Datenmanagement Trends für 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
LTO Tape – Backwards Compatibility
Starting with LTO-8, changes were made to LTO’s backwards compatibility. Previously, LTO drives could read tapes from two generations back and write to tapes from the previous generation. For instance, an LTO-7 drive could read LTO-7, LTO-6, and LTO-5 tapes,
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
10 Tech Trends: Data Storage and Data Management in 2024 and Beyond
By Dr. Marc M. Batschkus 1. Storage Grows Even More More data, larger files, more media production result in more demand for storage. With a possible shortage of some chips and components, this means that the storage setup of most
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
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
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
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
Filesystems versus Object Stores, how best to backup and archive files to cloud storage.
From time to time, we are asked if P5 will copy/replicate individual files from a filesystem to a cloud object store, where one file is stored as one object. This seems a natural way to work, since cloud storage works
Dateinamensschema in der Medienproduktion
By Dr. Marc M. Batschkus The most robust metadata that you can have is the file name. It can travel through different operating systems and file systems. The file name is the only metadata that is available all the time.
Reverse Client Connections and Cloud-based Archiware P5 Backup
By David Fox For organisations of all sizes, hosting a centralised P5 server in the cloud allows backup of multiple sites/offices back to a secure, centrally managed resource. This provides greater flexibility compared with using a commercial hosted solution. The
P5 Backup2Go – Advantages of snapshot-capable filesystems
By David Fox P5 Backup2Go is Archiware’s workstation backup product, it reads from the workstations disks and writes to a central disk-based repository. Here, many time-based snapshots of the workstations data are retained and available to restore from.
