In this week's newsletter, we feature some exciting resources, industry news and upcoming events:

• Video Tutorial: How to Backup QNAP NAS Using Archiware P5 & Symply
• Case Study: Integrated Solution for De Mensen With Limecraft & P5
• P5 Integrations: P5 Archive and Third-Party Applications
• Helpful Tools: MediaArea Open Source Software

How to Backup Your QNAP NAS Using Archiware P5 & Symply LTO-8 Tape Drive

Network Attached Storage provides the fastest and most efficient way to acquire and share data. When combined, QNAP NAS and Archiware P5 support the need for optimal medium and long-term data security in the simplest way possible.

In this video tutorial, QNAP Technical Manager, Craig Reid demonstrates how to secure NAS files and VMware virtual machines on a Symply LTO-8 tape drive using the P5 software suite.

Discover more on QNAP's YouTube channel!

Integrated Solution for De Mensen With Limecraft & Archiware P5

De Mensen is one of the largest independent producers in Belgium, which creates scripted and unscripted entertainment. For the production of the telenovela Lisa, they set up a new cloud-based workspace optimised to more easily handle large volumes of content and to improve collaboration.

Using cold storage managed by Archiware and Limecraft allowed them to create significant saving and achieve the optimal balance between cost and performance.

Read the full Case Study here!

Archiware P5 Integrations

Archiware P5 Archive offers options for integration. This way, a 3rd party application like a MAM, PAM, DAM etc. can trigger P5 Archive for archiving and restore.

By integrating to P5 Archive, all long-term storage handling on either disk, tape or cloud storage can be handed over to P5 Archive. When the archive storage is LTO tape, P5 Archive handles tape parallelisation, tape cloning, barcode inventory and the block position on tape of each archived file. P5 Archive offers the P5 native format and ISO compliant LTFS as archive formats.

Click here to read more about the P5 Integrations!

MediaArea Open Source Software

MediaArea is an open source software company focused on digital media analysis. They develop and support tools that aid developers in integrating digital media file investigation into their work. Their work primarily focuses on open source code, without rejecting proprietary code on request.

Their main products include:

• MediaInfo: a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
• MediaConch: an extensible software project consisting of an implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer that targets preservation-level audiovisual files.

End users and developers have freedom to study, to improve and to redistribute the program.

Timecode is Not Time: Reinventing SMPTE ST-12 for the Cloud Era
by Frame.io

Secret Service’s ‘Ludicrous’ Deletion of Jan. 6 Phone Data Baffles Experts
by The Washington Post

Fujifilm to Raise Some LTO Tape Prices 5% This Fall
by TechTarget

Unstructured Data Storage: On-Prem vs. Cloud vs. Hybrid
by Computer Weekly