Active archives are an increasingly critical part of the media workflow. Today, the need for highly scalable and quickly accessible archives is greater than ever as higher resolution media demands more capacity and media re-use requirements multiply in multi-format, time-pressured workflows.

A well-known weekly, weekend comedy show was experiencing these challenges firsthand. Having outgrown the capabilities of their tape archive, they urgently needed a faster, more reliable, highly scalable archive solution to provide their post-production staff speedy access to 40+ years of content — over 800 episodes, millions of digital assets, and petabytes of data. And they required a less labor-intensive process that would eliminate tape handling and migrations.