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tapestry™ for the Professional Video Industry
Massive increases in storage requirements driven by the adoption of high definition formats and the constant need to improve bottom line performance are accelerating a migration to file-based, networked storage systems in the video industry. tapestry™ products address the needs of the changing video world.
- Increase efficiencies throughout the work-flow
- digital camera down-load and permanent archive in one step
- digital copies during post-production
- digital source master
- hi-definition distribution permanent archive
- Network attached implementation
- Faster than real-time for SD and HD at 160 mbps transfer rate
- Eliminate accidental erasure or over-writing with the security of WORM media
- One solution supports all formats;
- a 300GB disk holds
- 462 CDs
- 64 DVDs
- 26 hours of video; 25mbps
- 20 hours of video; 32 mbps
- 13 hours of video; 50 mbps
- 7.4 hours of video; 90 mbps
- 6.7 hours of video; 100mbps HD
- 25 minutes of uncompressed HD; 1600mbps
tapestry™ for Fixed-Content and Regulatory Compliance Applications
Analysts predict that fixed-content information and regulatory compliance applications will grow faster than traditional transaction data for many years to come. Traditionally, most electronic data has resided on-line, on hard disk drives. Periodic backups to tape provide an extra, off-line copy of the data for disaster recovery in case the primary instance of the data is not available. However, this practice of a one-size-fits-all storage strategy is no longer economically viable for increasing numbers of customers. The challenge for vendors is to provide professional archive products that meet customer needs for data longevity, security, and accessibility, but are also competitive in terms of capacity, performance, and price.
- Meet your exploding storage requirements with high capacity and performance holographic storage
- Expand access to fixed-content data by offering near-line automated library solutions
- Provide data security with WORM media that complies with record authenticity requirements
- Reduce power and floor space costs with removable media solutions
Competing Technologies
darker blue boxes indicate the technology is competitive in archive market
| attribute | tapestry™ | blue laser optical* | data tape | hard disk | video tape |
| capacity roadmap | 300GB - 1.6 TB | 15 - 100 GB | 100GB - 1.6 TB | 18GB - 1.5 TB | 1 - 251 GB |
| transfer rate roadmap | 20 - 120 MB/s | 4-12 MB/s | 20 - 120 MB/s | 40-150 MB/s | 3 - 25 MB/s |
| media archive life | 50 yrs | 20 yrs | 7-10 yrs | 5 yrs | 7 yrs |
| low media price | $.06-.20/GB | $1.00/GB | $.25-1.00/GB | $3.00 GB | $1-3.00/GB |
| media handling Issues | office environment | office environment | Temp & RH controls | Must spin-up drive periodically | Temp & RH controls |
| physical WORM | Yes | Yes | no | no | no |
| random access | Yes | Yes | no | Yes | no |
| head contact on write/read | no | no | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| hw security features | optical encryption | none | none | Yes | none |
* Blu-ray, HD DVD, UDO – source IDC
