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Cloud storage is traditionally used for offsite backup, data distribution, and archiving. While it has many benefits, public cloud also raises security, compliance and control concerns.

Today, many organizations are benefiting from a hybrid cloud storage model in which some data is stored in the cloud and some stored using on premise disk and tape solutions. Spectra’s BlackPearl Converged Storage System enables massive amounts of data to be stored forever, at virtually no cost, and now includes cloud storage as yet another controlled storage option.

Acting as a centralized object storage gateway, BlackPearl provides a single interface that lets users easily send and retrieve large amounts of data directly from their existing native applications, to and from any storage platform including online and nearline disk, digital tape including ejected disaster recovery copies, and the public cloud. Link to

In fact Spectra’s BlackPearl integrates directly with Amazon S3 Standard, and Standard – Infrequent Access (Standard-IA), and is one of few products that will automatically restore data archived to Glacier. Spectra’s BlackPearl provides a powerful, self-contained, policy driven solution for all types of archive and tiered storage both locally and in the cloud. Link to press release.

What is Active Archive?
An Active Archive solution is a combination of open system applications, different types of disk and tape hardware that intelligently monitor and migrate data across multiple storage devices while maintaining fast user accessibility.

How Does it Work?
An Active Archive allows you to extend a file system across performance disk, capacity disk, and tape; all accessible to the end user without the intervention of an administrator. This not only eliminates the need for IT intervention when an archived file is requested, but also provides virtually limitless storage capacities in a much smaller footprint and cost per GB. Active Archive reduces the recall time of an archive file from days to under 2 minutes—even directly from tape!

Active Archive solutions also monitor the integrity of your data, eliminating the risk of data loss from bit rot, corruption, failed disk drives and bad media. This management approach provides a searchable, compliant format to store data for the total lifecycle of a file based on company policies, industry regulations and state or federal laws.

Over the past decade, the volume of surveillance video being recorded, indexed, and stored has increased significantly. There are multiple operational demands driving this increase, as well as the widespread demand for video surveillance. Spectra Logic’s archive storage solutions are designed to solve the problem of costly and complex approaches to digital preservation and seamlessly integrates with industry leading VMS software. These solutions provide compliance and affordability to organizations with complete control of their data through a simple workflow that manages both short term and long-term retention.

Your high performance environment continually tests the limits of technology and requires peak performance from all of your equipment—including your storage. Spectra’s data storage solutions help you push the boundaries of your operational objectives, giving you cost-effective storage that meets all of your performance, growth, and environmental needs. Spectra Logic builds some of the world’s largest storage systems.

Spectra Logic understands Media & Entertainment’s digital archive challenges. Together, with key industry partners, we offer end-to-end workflow solutions. Spectra solutions are backed by more than three decades of experience and emphasize ease of use, constant access to content and industry-leading density that can easily scale to millions of broadcast hours.