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Tiering RAID and LTO Data Tape for Video Surveillance Storage: Cost of Ownership

Now that high capacity LTO-8 data tape systems are shipping, we have received a lot of interest in using our combined RAID-LTO systems for video surveillance storage. Retaining infrequently accessed video on low cost LTO tape combined with caching the last few days of surveillance footage on RAID saves money and makes a lot of… 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

Comparing Cloud Storage and LTO for Creative Video

  We launched our Cloud File Gateway at NAB in Las Vegas last week and discussed its place in the storage hierarchy with many of the visitors to our booth. We focused on the merits of cloud storage versus a more conventional local LTO library for archived video content. From my NAB discussions, it was…

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