Tape-to-Cloud Migration
with Marquis Medway andWasabi Hot Cloud Storage
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Executive Overview
Media & Entertainment companies have accumulated decades worth ofproduction content, raw footage and stock material in tape-based digital
video archives. At the same time, these companies are generating newcontent at an ever-increasing rate. Many are struggling to preserve theirdigital libraries and protect their intellectual property. Conventional linear
tape-open (LTO) tape-based archival solutions and first-generation clouddata archiving services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Glacier are too
slow and expensive for today’s fast-paced digital world.
Wasabi has partnered with Marquis Broadcast to help Media &Entertainment companies reduce archival cost and complexity, retire
outdated LTO tape libraries, and accelerate the pace of business. Wasabi
hot cloud storage is incredibly affordable and fast cloud object storage forany purpose. And Marquis Medway is a fast, reliable and cost-effective
media and metadata workflow automation platform. The integrated
solution lets you move legacy LTO tape libraries to the cloud quickly,
securely and cost-effectively, providing a fast, affordable and dependable
repository for all your digital assets.
This white paper reviews some of the financial and functional constraintsof conventional archival solutions and first-generation cloud storage
services, and explains how Wasabi and Marquis Medway can help you
decommission inefficient LTO tape libraries, avoid cloud storage cost
uncertainties, and speed up data archival and retrieval functions.

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Introduction – LTO Archival Solutions are Too Slowand Expensive for the Digital Era
For the past twenty years LTO tapes have served as the medium of choice for the longterm storage of digital assets produced by film studios, broadcasters and production
companies. The low cost of tape cartridges combined with their generous storage
capacity and thirty-year shelf life led the Media & Entertainment industry to archive
close to an exabyte of data on LTO tape. But fast and inexpensive internet connectivity
and on-demand cloud storage services are rendering aging LTO tape solutionsobsolete.
Legacy LTO tape systems are notoriously slow, unreliable and costly. Data accessis slow. Hardware is prone to mechanical failures. And recurring equipment andoperations expenses—infrastructure, human capital, frequent system and media
upgrades—can quickly add up.

First-Generation Storage Clouds Are Costly, Slow
and Complicated
Cloud storage services have emerged as a flexible alternative to LTO tape for video
and data archiving. They offer infinite scalability, higher reliability and pay-as-you-go
pricing models. But first-generation cloud archival storage services like AWS Glacierare still inherently expensive, slow and complicated.
Glacier’s low storage costs may seem attractive at first blush. But when you factor in
the additional data retrieval and data transfer fees imposed by AWS, Glacier total costof ownership (TCO) can easily exceed that of a traditional tape-based approach. And
to make matters worse, retrieving data from Glacier can take many hours or even days,
making the service no better than pulling an old video file out of a tape library.
Worse still, Glacier pricing is complex and difficult to forecast. AWS uses a tieredpricing structure with distinct retrieval fees and retrieval request fees for expedited
retrievals, standard retrievals and bulk retrievals. And most Glacier fees vary per
region.

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage – A Fast, Simple andEconomical Alternative
Wasabi hot cloud storage is incredibly affordable, simple and fast cloud object storage
for any purpose. Specifically conceived to make cloud storage a commonplace
utility like electricity, Wasabi hot cloud storage is easy to understand, easy to orderand easy to scale. With Wasabi there are no confusing storage tiers to decipher
and no complicated fee structures to decode. One product, with predictable andstraightforward pricing, supports virtually every application including long-term dataretention.

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Engineered for extreme data integrity and security, Wasabi provides eleven 9s ofobject durability and supports configurable data immutability to protect against
accidental deletions, ransomware and malware. A highly parallelized systemarchitecture lets you efficiently move large datasets in and out of the cloud, withspeeds up to 6x faster than AWS’s premium S3 storage service.

LTO Tape Library Migration Challenges
All LTO tape systems rely on complex middleware to operate the tapeequipment and manage the stored video files and associated metadata.
One cannot just move a folder from a tape library to cloud storage as
the media references in these systems are proprietary. Also, any tapelibrary migration must take into account the MAM (media asset management), PAM (production asset management) and/or DAM (digitalasset management) systems accessing the storage environment. Finally,
migration of a data tape library is likely to occur in a live workflow andmust be accomplished with minimal impact to day-to-day operations.

Wasabi is the only cloud storage service that meets all the archival needs of the Mediaand Entertainment industry. At a price of just $6.99/TB/month—with no extra fees—
Wasabi meets or beats the TCO of most LTO tape library operations as well
as AWS Glacier. And unlike Glacier, with Wasabi there are no complicated tiered
pricing schedules or added data retrieval fees, so you can accurately budget for cloudstorage.

Marquis Medway as a Tape-to-Cloud Migration Tool
Marquis is a specialist in production workflows and media movement. Marquis
Medway is powerful software that automates many media processing tasks andenables media migration between a range of incompatible production systems
including MAM/PAM/DAM systems, edit platforms, live video servers and a varietyof storage environments. Medway ensures that media and metadata are properly
collected at the source system and arrive at the target system in exactly the rightformat with all involved systems properly updated.

API/XMLS3 API

MAM, PAM, DAMArchival Storage
Custom Integrations

Legacy LTO Tape Library

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Best Practices for Tape-to-Cloud Migration
with Marquis Medway
Follow these best practices when migrating from tape to cloud with Marquis
Medway and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage:• Move the most popular assets first• Migrate while the system is operational and transparent to MAM, PAM
and DAM by automatic redirects• Prevent any new assets from being written to the legacy library• Reduce traffic within the legacy library and maximize export resources• Migrate all media from source tape whenever a tape is mounted in adrive• Monitor migration and provide statistics regarding overall progress

Medway connects to on-premise and cloud storage and integrates with legacy
tape libraries and their associated middleware, such as SGL FlashNet and Oracle
DIVArchive. Medway is able to trigger various actions within the tape library
middleware and serves as an intelligent tape-to-cloud migration manager. The
product integrates with Wasabi via a standard S3 interface and performs the essential
translation of content files and metadata on tape to Wasabi cloud object storage. WithMarquis Medway, a tape-to-cloud migration runs seamlessly as a background rulesbased process that is transparent to daily media operations. And newly generated
content can be automatically re-directed to the Wasabi cloud archive to reduce traffic
within the legacy library so aging tape systems can be decommissioned as soon as
possible.

Summary
Outdated LTO tape-based archival solutions and first-generation cloud data archiving
services can’t meet the stringent price-performance requirements of the digital age.
Wasabi hot cloud storage provides a fast, simple and affordable alternative to aging
LTO tape-based libraries and legacy cloud services like AWS Glacier for long-term dataretention.
The integrated solution from Marquis and Wasabi can help you migrate your legacy
tape libraries to the cloud—quickly and reliably. The joint solution lays a solid
foundation for future growth, providing an instantly scalable and infinitely extensible
repository for all your digital assets.

Next Steps• CONTACT WASABI TODAY. Learn more about how Wasabi can help youeliminate the cost and complexity of traditional on-site storage solutions.

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About Marquis
Marquis Broadcast moves media and metadata
in professional production workflows. Founded in
1998, Marquis Broadcast provides a range of media
integration products designed for the data-intensive
and challenging requirements of today’s fast-paced
media production environments, enabling producers
of digital media to achieve maximum efficiencies fromtheir workflow processes.

About Wasabi
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot
cloud storage for businesses all over the world. It enables
organizations to store and instantly access an infinite
amount of data at 1/5th the price of the competition with nocomplex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tensof thousands of customers worldwide, Wasabi has beenrecognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and mostvisionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders
and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers,
Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston.

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