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Unstructured data management (UDM) is a growing challenge. Users are battling this growth with a mis-matched set of tools and scripts.

DNAfabric and the cloud presents opportunities to better manage ransomware, backup, archive & tiering for your Avid Nexis.

Ransomware Scanning - Preemptively scan your Avid Nexis for ransomware and other HW related failures including RAID, drive errors and more.

Unique features include ransomware scan, hw check scan, storage and directory analysis.

Cloud Backup - Backup your Nexus to any cloud with a recovery path to Avid EOD enabling a seamless DR workflow Unique features include Avid Nexis API integration, Avid pmr/mdb smarts, cloud cost limits and ability to create a replica in Avid EOD in case of an on-site disaster.

Cloud Tiering -Tier and archive Nexis to any cloud with the ability to repurpose to Avid EOD on demand. Unique features include tiering to multiple cloud providers, stub links, ALE based conforms and Avid EOD re-sync and repurposing.

StorageDNA UDM TOOLS

IT Tools have long focused on the challenges of structured data including virtual machines, containers, and databases.

As we look back upon 2016, the year has seen many worldly events occur (Rio Olympics, Brexit, Zika Virus, Cubs win World Series, LTO-7 hits the streets – among many others!), but its not until you actually sit down and contemplate/calculate how much content you’ve got sitting on all those LTO-5 tapes do you realize that you’ve got some very important work ahead.

As the LTO roadmap moves steadily forward, your timeframe for successfully moving that content onto faster, denser storage is shrinking. With each passing day without a plan, you’ve lost valuable time in the race to complete a job that ultimately never ends – data migration.  In case you have not heard, the LTO roadmap provides 2 generations of backwards compatibility (see chart here) – its something you’ve been told I’m sure. But now’s the time to “wake up and smell the coffee” as they say.  You need a plan, but why?

1. LTO 7 - Keep your content readily available

If you don’t migrate your content forward, the chances of it not being accessible get higher as time passes and that is a scary thing to think about in today’s age of content re-purposing.  Let’s face it, all hardware is prone to failure over time - and if/when the day arrives when your LTO-5 drive no longer works and there is limited ability to source a new one - you are SOL and all the content on those LTO-5 tapes will not be easily accessible.  Sure you could go buy yourself a “brand new” LTO 6 drive, but that will only get you so far and with LTO 8 on the horizon, why buy into an intermediate band-aid?

2. LTO 7 - Consolidate content

With LTO 7 firmly established as a cost, performance and capacity leader in today’s storage arena it makes perfect sense to make the move. Doing so will allow you to consolidate all that content from LTO 5 tapes onto roughly one fourth the number of LTO 7 tapes.  Imagine the shelf space you could save – ultimately making room for much more content all being written to brand new LTO 7 tapes. You can now hold a single project’s worth of content on a single tape – much easier for organizing as well as distribution.

3. LTO 7 – Save money by taking advantage of higher speeds and greater capacity

LTO 7 capacity per cartridge is 6TB, providing highly reliable storage at just $.02 per GB (read more here), while the increase in speed of LTO 7 drives delivers 300MB/sec throughput.  These numbers are hard to ignore – even before that cup of coffee.  Not only are you saving money on the actual storage, you will save valuable time (remember time=money) by being able to complete jobs in half the time, or maybe a better way to see it - double your productivity!

In a nutshell, here’s what we have planned…

In our booth SL10621, we’ll showcase the latest version of DNA Evolution (4.0) including:

Automated Avid® and Adobe® project backup and archiving

LTO LTFS conform and partial restore workflows enabled by technology partner, MOG Technologies

DNA Evolution Infinity Series, an integrated LTO LTFS software and hardware solution for media archiving and data management

Join us for all-new live nearline and archive workflow demonstrations at the top of every hour in the StorageDNA Theater.

Also, on display in Sony’s booth C11001 will be Sony’s Optical Disc Archive powered by StorageDNA’s DNA Evolution software:

Combined technologies create a turnkey nearline and archive storage solution that enables direct access to file-based content without restores

On this Friday and Saturday, visit with us at Avid Connect to learn about new workflows for Avid and to see DNA Evolution working with Media Composer.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us last month at NAB. It was a great event for StorageDNA and we want to share just some of the highlights from our experience with you. This year we had a fantastic location, right in the mix of the main activity in the south lower hall. Right off the bat, we were pleased to see a higher overall attendance and great enthusiasm from everyone we spoke with. It was terrific to connect with many customers, resellers, and partners.

At the show, we  introduced DNA Evolution v3.0, the next generation LTO with LTFS archive-retrieval solution, and revealed how it redefines LTFS media workflows:

Ground-breaking solution that combines nearline and archive storage on LTO tape

Innovative new features that maximize the direct access nature of LTFS

Archive, find, restore, and directly access content at incredible speeds

Our customers learned how these advanced media workflows will help to simplify their workflows, save time, and significant storage costs.

Another key highlight of our show was the presentation by Will Pisnieski, Vice President of Post Production for Authentic Entertainment. Will spoke about Authentic’s reality TV workflow and discussed  the challenges they face in acquiring and managing tremendous amounts of file-based content from multiple formats on a weekly basis. He showed how they save time and costs with processes enabled by DNA Evolution: automated LTO archiving and conforming directly from LTO tape.