Global entertainment giant improves data access, lowers cost
A global entertainment giant made the strategic decision to separate the data environments of two fast growing, smaller business groups. Doing so also meant separating their data, of course. The data consists of precious film and video digital assets that are accessed and exploited continually over time.
Using Unix and VERITAS NetBackup they previously backed up both business group directories to the same media in the same job. Archive media storage—approximately 1,500 DTF tapes—is at a secure third-party location.
The solution involved not only migrating the data quickly and reliably using a proprietary migration process but doing so outside of their space-constrained data center. In the process, PeakData was able to demonstrate that an upgrade to the latest, high capacity LTO-3 (not part of the original project scope, which called for LTO-2) would improve data accessibility and lower cost in the long run.
For example, by cutting the number of off-site tapes in half their monthly storage fees decreased a like amount. And by refreshing their tape technology another notch up when they performed the data migration they were already required to do, they avoided having to do another migration in the not-too-distant future simply to stay on the tape technology curve.