THERE ARE LIMITED BANDWIDTH CAPABILITIES IN SOME PLACES, BUT TRANSFERRINGDATA ISSOMETHINGYOUCANDO INTHEBACKGROUND
media is probably unavailable until mid- 2019, given a legal disagreement between two manufacturers, but 6TB LTO-7 tapes can be found for around £50 apiece. RUNNING HOT AND COLD Adam Bushnaq is business development manager at Zoolz, a provider of cloud backup for small and medium businesses. He says there are huge advantages to online and cloud storage, explaining: “You can upload data from any device. You can access it from anywhere. You can share it with anyone. You can have passwords with an expiry date. If you are a broadcaster and you want to get opinions before you post, you can share it.”
The cloud brings sophistication. Zoolz’ AI-based BigMIND service provides intelligent search and content recognition for both personal and business customers, and there are two ways to store arbitrary data: hot storage and cold storage. “We have cold storage,” Bushnaq explains, “which is cost-efficient storage, and we have hot storage. The main difference is restoration time. On cold storage, you have to wait three to five hours for your files to be available. With hot storage, if you request a download, it starts immediately.” Bushnaq adds that another neat trick is the automatic transcoding of large media files to smaller proxies. “You can store
your full-resolution videos, 4K or Full HD, on cold storage to save money. Then, on demand, you can have SD, HD or both.” Prices for the smart archive solution start at £30 a month for 1TB, with unlimited uploads and downloads and, while a moving-image production could fill that in a single morning, the cloud allows for ever- expanding capacity. It offers security as well. “If anything happens to your device,” Bushnaq affirms, “you’ll find a backup of this file safe in the cloud.” NEARLINE MADE SIMPLE Those with an existing infrastructure might not want to do a wholesale cloud migration, but instead incorporate cloud features
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