Digital Storage Solutions for Media and Entertainment

With fewer resources and tighter budgets, your most critical responsibility is to remain on the air. An essential part of efficient operations is to have reliable access to your content when you need it. With Spectra Logic’s digital archive solutions you can have your content available and accessible without the complexities and costs associated with traditional archives.

Times have changed – your priorities have not

• Constant access: Spectra archives are highly reliable due to extensive component redundancy and proactive monitoring.

• Maximize uptime: Spectra’s solutions provide customer replaceable parts, component redundancy and custom support options that maximize library uptime.

• Easily manage your archives: Managing Spectra solutions is simple—utilize the color touch-screen interface or access your archive from anywhere using the Remote Library Controller (RLC) in a standard web browser.

• Never lose your content: Ensure your content’s perpetuity with Data Integrity Verification; Media Lifecycle Management for media health monitoring; TeraPack® cases for environmental protection; and custom barcodes for organization and efficiency.

Scales easily: Spectra tape archives can easily expand in capacity and performance from a few hundred to millions of hours with our seamless upgrade programs.

High density: Spectra tape archives store a vast amount of digital data in a very small space. Spectra stores tapes vertically in TeraPack containers, maximizing the space occupied by the library, giving you the smallest storage footprint available.

"High density was our biggest requirement for the new digital archive solution, as our previous system consumed six racks and supported less than 2,000 slots. The Spectra® T950 Tape Library lets us store enough data to substantially grow our digital video archive in a very small footprint."

Stavros Hilaris VP and Chief Technical Officer

Long-term investment: Your broadcast content continues to grow and you need to invest in equipment that grows with you. Spectra archives allow for a seamless growth path that allows you to increase your slot capacity within a minimal footprint.

"Our T950 can protect and preserve thousands of hours of digital sports media content, and its

performance has been nothing less than perfect since we put it into operation."

Paul Koopmann Director of Broadcast Engineering

Complete Lifecycle Management For highly reliable tape archive and backup, Spectra libraries track and report the expected lifetime utilization thresholds for tape media, drives and library components. With advance notification, you can address any potential concerns about the critical components of your entire library before they become an operational issue.

To ensure the viability of your data, Media Lifecycle Management (MLM) tracks and reports on health- and security-related statistics for Spectra Certified Media. Detailed reporting mitigates media problems and restore issues, allowing you to copy and move your data onto new media before degraded media affects your data.

Like MLM, Drive Lifecycle Management (DLM) extends the same proactive approach to drives by integrating tape drive analysis and reporting within the library. Using easy-to-manage, color-coded icons, you can quickly identify the health status of a drive. DLM also offers easy-to-use tape drive diagnostics to test and verify drive health and operation.

Managing the health of your library’s critical components is made easy with Library Lifecycle Management (LLM). By delivering utilization metrics relative to the expected useful life of library robotics, filters and other critical components, you are able to service your library before issues occur.

Data Integrity VerificationSpectra’s BlueScale® management interface offers a sophisticated suite of features that allows you to actively check the data integrity of the content written to your tapes. PreScan ensures that tapes are usable and can accept data. QuickScan scans a tape uni-directionally by reading the length of one track of the tape to provide a rapid indicator of integrity of data written. FullScan confirms that there are no media errors on the tape by reading the entire length of the tape up to the end of the recorded data.

Spectra Tape Libraries: Affordable, Incrementally Scalable and Fast

Spectra® T950 Tape Library

Flexible, Reliable and Affordable NAS StorageEasily and affordably manage large media files, while planning for the future with BlackPearl Network Attached Storage (NAS). The multi-functional BlackPearl NAS works in a myriad of media and entertainment workflows serving as:

• Ingest platform • Central or utility storage • Digital parking lot • High-capacity archive cache

Reliable, economical and archive-ready, Spectra BlackPearl NAS simplifies the data storage process. Protect your investment with Spectra’s TranScale upgrade path and unlock limitless storage possibilities and multiple storage targets by upgrading the BlackPearl NAS to a BlackPearl Converged Storage System.

Spectra Digital Tape ArchivesOne key requirement of the transition to a file-based workflow is the ability to effectively manage and protect your digital archives and be able to recall them at a moment’s notice. Spectra’s digital tape libraries help you efficiently manage your digital archives with scalable, cost-effective and reliable solutions that allow for quick access to your audio and video files when you need them most. Spectra Logic will minimize operational impact by proactively monitoring library status, tape drive status and the health stats of every digital tape in your archive. Since modern tape media has a viable storage life of more than 30 years, your content will safely be there for as long as you need it.

Spectra® BlackPearl® Converged Storage System solves the problem of costly and complex approaches to digital preservation by combining NAS and S3-based interfaces with multiple storage targets into a simple and affordable solution. Designed for numerous concurrent workflows, BlackPearl reduces the need for expensive third-party data movers by integrating Spectra S3 with a range of certified clients and simple file movers.

Massive Content Storage At Virtually No Cost

BlackPearl Object Storage Disk leverages BlackPearl’s hybrid storage architecture and power-down technology, creating the first object storage-based disk platform that delivers maximum longevity, efficiency and cost effectiveness with the performance of online disk. Drive Lifecycle Management, Spectra’s power-down technology, extends the life of your disk archive while delivering fast access to deep storage. Engineered for data reliability and integrity, local erasure coding combined with Spectra's unique implementation of ZFS software brings new life to long-term deep storage disk. BlackPearl Object Storage Disk creates an on-premise cloud with an S3 interface to make deep storage more accessible.

A Breakthrough in Nearline Disk Storage

Spectra Logic develops data storage solutions that solve the problem of short- and long- term digital preservation for business and technology professionals dealing with exponential data growth. Dedicated solely to storage innovation for 40 years, Spectra Logic’s uncompromising product and customer focus is proven by the adoption of its solutions by industry leaders in multiple vertical markets globally. Spectra enables affordable, multi-decade data storage and access by creating new methods of managing information in all forms of storage—including archive, backup, cold storage, private and public cloud.

About Spectra Logic

To maximize uptime, Spectra tape archives are designed to proactively monitor and log all key status indicators for all components of the system. Support tickets are automatically generated for user-definable events. Additionally, the archive sends messages to alert users of a potential problem so preventive measures can be taken to eliminate unscheduled downtime of the system.

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Support When, Where and How you Want ItSupport for Spectra libraries ranges from our standard worldwide next business day replacement to more advanced alternatives, including next day, same day, four-hour onsite service or Assisted Self-Maintenance. Our expertise comes from 40 years of solving problems with hands-on lab work and onsite technical support. Our support staff is cross-trained over the entire storage environment – not just hardware – so we can assist you with all aspects of a problem. From open to close, we are committed to resolving any issue.

Each Media and Entertainment worklow is different and unique to the organizations’ production and storage needs. Spectra seamlessly integrates with industry leading partners to provide complete workflow solutions that provide archives designed to protect content forever.

Spectra Disk and Tape Solutions are Designed to Work with Your Workflow

"We estimate that we will maintain 24/7 access to upwards of 4,000 LTO tapes at the start. That number will do nothing but grow, so we chose a new backup solution from Spectra that can not only protect existing historical content, but also grow with us."

Scott Rinehart Director of Internal Operations