Key Business Benefits

• Reduce capital expenditure and staffing requirements through archive as a service model. Avoid fixed startup costs and enable smooth scaling of capacity.
• Future-proof against evolving requirements and standards for storage formats, transcodes, and delivery protocols.
• Federated Archive approach leveraging open source standards LTFS/LTO-5 creates additional flexibility and reduced cost.
• Lower cost and scalable economics support monetization economics for archive and deep catalog Employ all digital, master quality, rich metadata archive approach to support diverse future use cases.

Features & Capabilities

• Ingestion: Mastering from film, tape or digital sources, at source location or on-site at Thought Equity Motion. HD, DI, and SD footage processing and 4K master quality ingestion.
• Encoding Services: Provide the entry point to the digital file based world, with the creation of Digital Library Masters from Film or Tape content sources. Content is captured at very high bitrates which preserves the quality of the master source, enabling subsequent repurposing for any format, platform or screen.
• Restoration Services: Restoration or correction of content to meet the needs of preservation or fulfillment.
• Scale: More than 10 petabytes of enterprise class, secure, physically and geographically redundant storage today - scaling to an expected 100 PB global footprint by the end of 2012. Ingestion of over 10 terabytes per day growing 10%+ per month.
• Disaster Recovery / Security : The Digital repositories are set up in a mirrored full failover infrastructure in two separate cities which allows provides the highest level of redundancy. Content is stored within the TEM secure digital repository, security is implemented in many ways: Physical, Application, Code and API.
• Archive Access: Access to both the physical and digital library through a web-based portal (see Library Management & Delivery for more on access services).