Tech Talk: We Will Rock You

Tech Talk: We Will Rock You:
Preserving the Rich History of Rock and Roll Footage
Kyle Evans, Tape Ark


Digital and cloud technology has radically altered the media, entertainment and broadcast industry, opening up new opportunities and with it many challenges. With rising competition and consumer viewing demands, growing archive and content libraries must be in a position to capitalize in real-time. Hear how Tape Ark, the world-leading specialists in on-masse tape to cloud migration, safely restored over 2,800 hours (350TB) of preservation-level video files for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?s, Library of Archives, that were once inaccessible, to the public cloud and, during the process, located an additional 109 preservation level videos that the Rock Hall did not know existed. By innovating every step of the tape to cloud ingest process to create a safe, secure and unique technology stack that scales and efficiently migrates, at speed legacy tape data like no other.


AMIA Online | November 17-20, 2020