THE CHALLENGE Gorilla Group needed to centrally manage archiving operations from the company's Cardiff headquarters and wanted to transition from IT-based backups to LTO with LTFS archiving. Reliably archiving data and making it easily accessible in an open format was critical to the customized media workflows Gorilla Group designs for each client. "Previously, we were backing up to LTO tape using IT software, but we couldn't easily access data or exchange tapes and we wanted to simplify the whole process for clients," said James Rhodri, director of technology, Gorilla Group. "We also wanted our new solution to be intelligent and provide a higher level of data integrity." A new LTO LTFS solution was needed to seamlessly integrate into Gorilla Group's existing post production environmen

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