DAC ALTO - II Archive and Content Library

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ALTO - II Archive and Content Library

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A secure, high performance media archive with low total cost of ownership and excellent green credentials.

ALTO-II is a scalable, flexible and highly secure alternative to a Data Tape Library for archive storage, offering faster access for many more users with a low capital outlay and very low total cost of ownership.

A number of historical arguments favoured data tape as an archive medium including low media cost, high capacity and robustness, but ultimately the performance of a Data Tape Library is limited by the complex mechanical systems for selecting and loading the data tapes; sequential access to the data stored on linear tapes; the need to share a limited number of Reading and Writing devices and significant routine maintenance and downtime.

ALTO takes advantage of recent developments in disk drive technology including the latest high capacity SMR techniques and new strategies for data protection to offer unique performance and economic benefits whilst at the same time eliminating widely held concerns about the security and running costs of high capacity Drives in data storage arrays. Tapeless workflows are already firmly established in Media Acquisition, Production and Distribution. Now with ALTO the same benefits are available for Archives and Content Libraries.
 
The Ultimate Guide to Tapeless Archives
  • Find out why top Broadcasters and Media Companies are switching from tape to disk for Archiving
  • Learn how to guard against disk failure and data loss in media archives
  • Get data on technology that is decimating power consumption and disk replacement costs 
  • Learn how to manage the transition to a tapeless archive in easy stages
 
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ALTO Features and Benefits

  • Compact high density storage with 48 Disk Slots giving up to 350 TB (Raw) in a 5RU each ALTO-II System Chassis
  • Highly secure with user-selectable Replication, avoiding lengthy RAID rebuilds which can leave valuable content vulnerable.
  •  Advanced MAID-III architecture with independent disk control to reduce Power and A/C requirements
  • Off the shelf 6TB and 8TB Sub-Nearline disk drives with spin-down to extend disk lifetime and reduce replacement cost
  • Low-Cost Storage Expansion Chassis - 60 additional Disk Slots for each ALTO System Chassis 
  • Plug & play connectivity, easy to integrate, adding up to 450 TB (Raw) storage in 4 RU
  • Supports and mix of disk drive size - buy and install disks as you go as prices fall and capacities increase 
  • Buy ALTO without disks and populate with locally sourced disks as an operational expense
  • Embedded ALTO Filer for Workgroup Applications supporting CIFS and FTP
  • Redundant ALTO Filer Appliances for Enterprise applications up to 1.6 Petabytes
  • Unlimited Scalability and Distributed systems managed by the ALTO API
Making your media assets more accessible makes good business sense. News, Sports and Factual programs are more appealing and valuable content can be re-purposed for new distribution channels. But the likelihood is that your programs are stored in a Tape Archive, which may be secure, but may not be so easy to access.

Making the Archive central to Broadcast Operations, rather than just a secure vault at the end of the Program Chain is the first step, but the real improvement comes from using random access disk drives rather than sequential access from tapes, but without sacrificing the security of offline media.

Securing your media is of paramount importance. Just like a Tape Archive, ALTO uses Data Replication to protect your content. Complete files are replicated in multiple locations offering user selectable security and even allowing media to be removed for transport, vault storage or reading with no proprietary or licensed Readers

ALTO from Disk Archive Corporation is a unique alternative to a Data Tape Archive starting with as little as 6 Terabytes and expanding on a buy-as-you-go basis to give up to 1.7 Petabytes of storage in a standard rack configuration with a low up-front investment, low total cost of ownership running costs and no downtime for routine maintenance.

 

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