Cache-A Archive Appliance Products

Appliance based solutions to protect your content for the long term
One tool to manage your media data onto and off of Archives

	Easily archive digital source media Long-term protection for source masters Simple workflows to protect your valuable footage Quickly offload content and redeploy field media Works stand-alone or with off-load applications like Shot-Put or R3DDM USB 3.0 connectivity on Prime-Cache5 and eSATA, USB, and ExpressCard connectivity on Pro models Easily archive projects Archive complete projects in the edit suite Cross-platform, cross-application works with Avid, Final Cut Pro, Premier, Discreet and more Project files, graphics, footage, stills, shot lists — all your data can all be saved in one place Networked archiving means access from every workstation on your network Built-in catalog for easy recovery Cache-A remembers every tape it’s ever seen Search by file name or user metadata Works stand-alone or with digital asset management applications like CatDV or Final Cut Server Works with shelf-stored content or with library options on Pro-Cache models

LTO Archive Appliances for Media Professionals

Cache-A’s LTO based archive appliances provide networked storage systems to professional video customers that are simple to deploy and allow users a way to easily transfer their content to secure, portable, exchangeable LTO tape cartridges.

• Cache-A Archive Appliances provide the most integrated networked archiving solution in post
• Works with Macs, PCs and Linux/Unix Machines
• Solutions with Avid and Final Cut Pro
• Solutions with Apple's Final Cut Server, Square Box's CatDV, Crispin Master Control and Newsroom Automation, R3Data Manager, Imagine's HD Log and Shot Put, Marquis' Parking, and more...
• Archiving made easy with Cache-A Archive Appliances
• Application independent - no special software needed
• Easy to deploy - plug and play on any network
• Self-contained appliance is a complete solution
• Direct connect media devices for the fastest archiving path on Cache-A systems:
• Hard disk drives and camera storage devices plug right in over eSATA or Firewire (depending upon model)
• Acquisition card readers directly accessible over USB
• Pro-Cache models offer an ExpressCard slot to accommodate future direct access connections as they evolve

Cache-A archive appliances provide networked storage direct to data tape.  This solves a critical need in the Entertainment Industry by providing an economical, archive quality media on which to store file-based content.  Every tape cartridge contains a directory of its content making each one a self-contained asset repository that can be shipped around the world and stored for long periods of time.  The content can be retrieved regardless of the application or software environment that recorded it.   This is important for both portability and longevity since the software and OS environment that recorded a cartridge may not be available across locations or may not persist in time for 10, 20, or even 30 years.

The Cache-A LTO-4 drive based archive appliances will hold 800GB per cartridge, equivalent to more than 60 hours of 25 Mb/s Standard Definition or more than 15 hours of 100 Mb/s High Definition (HD) content. Cache-A LTO-5 drive based appliances nearly double that capacity to 1500GB per cartridge.  All Cache-A appliances can provide archiving via fast file transfers over Gigabit Ethernet at data rates up to 75MB/s and even faster using other transfer technologies such as direct attached storage.

Why is tape still important in today’s professional video file-based workflows?

• The desire to go tapeless really means “video tapeless” because:
• Video tape does not preserve meta-data.
• Video tape is slow – transfers are always real-time.
• Video tape locks in a particular format/standard.
• Although data tape overcomes these limitations, video tape still has advantages:
• Video tape is portable and exchangeable – doesn’t require specific software environment.
• Video tape has longevity – 20-30 years plus is not dependant on specific software environment.
• Video tape allows flexible and unanticipated workflows – just add labor and anything is possible.  This is not the case with more restrictive IT workflows.
• Video tape allows accessing content by timecode.
• Cache-A tapes combine the advantages of video tape and data-tape without the limitations
• Network attached for easy access
• File system on each cartridge provides portability and interoperability
• No additional software required to access content
• Format/compression independent – store HD, SD, Graphics, Digital Film
• Fast transfers at up to 75MB/s for LTO-4 and up to 120MB/s for LTO-5