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Meeting Exa-Scale Archive Requirements In The Digital Age Of Media and Entertainment Tom Coughlin Coughlin Associates The Storage Dilemma In The Media And Entertainment Industry Digital technology is revolutionizing how the media and entertainment industry operates. Whether it is in broadcasting, motion pictures, music, publishing or video production, the media and entertainment industry is both reaping the benefits of, and struggling with the new challenges brought on by the digital revolution. The transition from analog to digital workflows in the media and entertainment industry has occurred rapidly and in a non-linear fashion, so much so that these digital advancements are creating other, unforeseen and unplanned for challenges and issues. A great example of an important challenge with digital content is the issue of how to digitize older analog content and preserve all the new, ever larger, digital content that is being created at a blistering pace. The motion picture industry has a long standing commitment to archiving and preserving motion pictures for a minimum of 100 years and some industry stalwarts will settle for nothing less than “forever”. With today’s longer shooting times, higher frame rates, more bits per pixel, higher resolution and an increasing number of content capture devices used for a motion picture project combined with an increasing number of digital films produced annually, the size and number of individual digital files is getting larger and larger. For example, the latest RED digital camera technology can generate over 85TB of digital video content during a 24-hour shoot with a single camera. Storing this “daily” content would require a minimum of twenty-one 4 TB hard disk drives or ten 8.5 TB digital tape cartridges. In another example, the production of th