Hollywood Studio Big Breakfast Deploys StorageHeaven TapeMaster-SA LTO | LTFS Cloning System

StorageHeaven, in LTO tape duplication, announced that Hollywood Studio Big Breakfast has deployed its TapeMaster-SA Automated Standalone LTO | LTFS Ultrium Tape Migration and Cloning System.

The TapeMaster-SA enabled the Big Breakfast to migrate and or clone their large archive of LTO tapes in-house and reduces cost by more than 50% when compared with alternate solutions.

Big Breakfast, a producer of scripted and unscripted comedic content for linear and digital platforms with numerous awards, has amassed a large archive of LTO tapes and needed a solution to replicate these tapes for redundancy and DR. The TapeMaster-SA solution is used in conjunction with an Overland-Tandberg NEO Robotic Tape Library enabling complete ‘lights out’ unattended operation.

“We began our research back in May 2017 and we decided on the Storage Heaven TapeMaster as it fits our need for an offline easy to use standalone LTO duplication and migration solution,” said Mark Chernausek, Big Breakfast information technology engineer. “In addition to their manual devices they also had fully automated which is ideal for us since we wanted to clone our tapes 24/7 with the least amount of labor and operator intervention as possible.“

Deploying the TapeMaster system was quick process for the office IT team at Big Breakfast.

“It took no more than a couple hours to set up in our data center and we never had to engage StorageHeaven support to go to full production,” said Chernausek.

“With the growing use of Ultrium LTO technology in media and entertainment organizations, there is corresponding increase in demand for tools that enable rapid migration and cloning of LTO media,” said Gordon, VP sales and marketing, StorageHeaven. “We are thrilled that Big Breakfast selected TapeMaster-SA for this project and look forward to supporting them as their media archive needs grow.“

“We are very pleased that StorageHeaven has chosen our NEO LTO Tape Automation solution to be incorporated into their LTO migration and duplication offerings,” said David Ochser, VP North America sales, Overland-Tandberg. “We share in StorageHeaven’s commitment to provide customers with the most cost-effective solutions without any compromise to performance or service.“