In recent years, customer demand for storage capacity to support long-term media assets has grown significantly. With increase in image resolution and development of 4K and other high-resolution media assets driving data growth, Media companies require a highly efficient and cost effective scalable platform to keep up with data growth.

The key requirements to support environments that represent the majority of media content include modular and flexible scalability, high data resiliency, immediate access and availability, and capacity optimization to reduce footprint and overall costs.

Media assets can be backed up and archived in HYDRAstor using the P5 interface with automatic and manual options. Both modules can be used simultaneously and with the same target storage. 

P5 Backup

Archiware P5 Backup provides professional server backup on Disk or Tape storage. Full and incremental backup strategies can be employed and intermixed to achieve maximum security with minimal use of resources. The backup is interruptible and offers parallel read and write processes for maximum throughput. Restore is very simple and can be done by the individual user within the chosen retention period.

P5 Archive

Archiware P5 Archive migrates data from online storage to Disk or LTO Tape.
A configurable metadata catalogue, preview videos and storable searches simplify finding and restoring archived files.
Tape cloning produces duplicate sets of tapes for offsite storage. In multi-drive libraries, archiving processes can be parallelized to achieve higher throughput.

Additional modules P5 Synchronize for data replication and high availability and P5 Backup2Go for workstation backup can be added at any point.