Video Archives: On-Prem or Cloud?

For creative organizations, video files are typically moved from high-cost shared disk storage to archive storage after a project is completed. The archive provides secure long-term storage at a much lower cost per terabyte than the higher performance shared disk storage used for editing. Now that fast Internet connectivity is becoming more and more available,… Read more

Migrating Legacy Archives

Migration from legacy archives was a major theme at NAB this year. Many of the visitors to the XenData booth have large legacy LTO tape archives that they want to convert to the Cloud or to modern on-premises LTO-8 archives. In many cases, there is an urgency to convert, driven by escalating maintenance costs for… Read more

XenData: When a Windows Volume Suddenly gets Hybrid Towards an Azure Storage Account

Introduction Today I took the XenData Cloud File Gateway out for a spin… Why? This little piece of software allows a windows volume to be extended by an Azure Storage Account. And from a technical level, we are talking about blob storage here. So you can leverage hot & cold storage, and even archive storage in the… Read more