Case Study
EPFL Selects HGST Active Archive System for 50 Years of Jazz Music Archives
CASE STUDY EPFL METAMEDIA CENTER Challenge EPFL collected over 15,000 hours of audio-visual content from the annual Montreux Jazz Festival over a 50-year time span — and no back-up copies exist. Solution Three Active Archive Systems in a 3-geo configuration, with two deployed at separate EPFL data centers in Lausanne and one at a data center in Montreux. Each system has 4.7PB raw capacity. Results • Data protection and availability at