Situation: The company faced the problem of increasing data storage requirements and increasing R&D information, as well as business critical application data. Also a primary concern was their shrinking backup window.

Format Considerations: Speed, reliability, open-format. Additionally, lower media costs driven by a competitive, open environment were attractive.

Resolution: Ultrium format based library system.

Results: Critical business data protected three-times faster. More comprehensive backups. Room to grow.

Situation: Significant data growth in a heterogeneous environment (NT, Sun and HPUX); Back-up included direct attach tape solutions.

Goal: Create an enterprise-class data recovery system to support its rapidly growing service and SAP implementation.

Format Considerations: Capacity, roadmap viability, reliability, performance.

Resolution: Ultrium format based library connected via a SAN offering the necessary scalability required.

Results: Met the goal of creating an enterprise-class data recovery system to support the multiplatform server environment and rapidly growing applications.

Situation: Enhance the entertainment firm's tape archive and production process for creating, storing and retrieving digital media.

Goal: To create a comprehensive digital asset management solution designed to enhance the daily production process of a long-running daily television show, and transferring its current analog tape archive of nearly 20 years of footage to a fully digitized collection that includes descriptive information about the video footage, enabling easy search and retrieval capabilities.

Format Considerations: Speed, capacity, cost of ownership.

Resolution: Using an ultra-scalable tape library incorporating LTO Ultrium drives, the entertainment firm digitally stored and retrieved all of its film archive much faster, more efficiently and less expensively.

Results: The solution would provide the company with the ability to quickly search and query its massive archive of digitized file footage. The show's producers would then receive low-resolution files matching their search for browsing purposes, and subsequently retrieve high-resolution files for final editing and broadcast.