Prime Focus Technologies selects Masstech for HSM

Toronto, Canada – Prime Focus Technologies has chosen Masstech as its cloud storage archive provider for its hierarchical storage management (HSM) in the initial phase across three sites in the United Kingdom, United States and India.

Prime Focus offers a ‘hybrid cloud’ multi-platform content operations service called Clear, enabling customers from the media and entertainment industry to produce, process, manage and deliver content for revenue-generating opportunities.

Ganesh Sankaran, Chief Operating Officer of Prime Focus Technologies, said, “Masstech’s Emerald provides tight integration with our Clear system for cost-effective digital video archiving that is optimized for the requirements of our clients from the media and entertainment industry.”

Masstech has installed Emerald in Prime Focus Technologies’ sites to perform HSM and offline archiving. Emerald works with Clear to archive and restore from the Online Hard Disk Storage and Nearline Spectra LTO5 tape library.

Emerald supports up to two LTO-5 tape drives with any size robotic tape library from a wide range of manufacturers like Spectra, IBM, Quantum, Oracle/StorageTek and others. In addition Emerald has fee-free unlimited disk and tape storage with an unlimited number of offline externalized LTO cartridges, providing an infinite archive capacity.