Lights, camera, action! LTO-6 tape with LTFS set to take starring role at NAB 2015

The curtain goes up on NAB 2015 this weekend in Las Vegas. NAB (for National Association of Broadcasters) is the world's largest electronic media show covering the creation, management and delivery of content across all platforms. The exhibition attracts 98,000 attendees from 150 countries and 1,700+ exhibitors displaying products and next generation technologies over one million net square feet of exhibit space!

Much of the show buzz will focus on how best to protect and archive digital content, the lifeblood of the media and entertainment (M&E) industry.

The creation of digital content is expensive and often impossible to recreate, so preserving it, perhaps indefinitely, is paramount. Across the M&E industry, re-use of digital content is integral to the monetization process. That’s why protecting, archiving and providing access to digital content, at an affordable cost, is imperative. This requirement for cost-effective archival storage is ideally met with LTO-6 with LTFS solutions.

A growing number of M&E storage vendors are partnering with us to develop appliances and applications that integrate LTO-6 and LTFS to deliver advanced solutions across all aspects of the media workflow. These solutions including simple drag-and-drop applications such as HP StoreOpen and “Tape as NAS” active archive solutions that combine the cost benefits of tape with the access times of NAS will be very much in evidence at NAB 2015.

LTO tape’s unique blend of cost effective, scalable, durable and removable storage has always delivered proven benefits when it comes to protecting and retaining digital content in the media and entertainment industry. With the introduction of the Linear Tape File System, content on tape is now as easy to access and share as disk. As a result, the Coughlin Report notes that digital tape continued to account for 41.7% of all M&E content stored on digital tape in 2014.