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Gaining immediate access to data including old video footage from anywhere in real-time can be crucial for those in the news and other TV broadcasting sectors or at ad agencies during a typical work day, according to LucidLink.

Using LucidLink and Wasabi technology, you can implement an active archive to accelerate your workflows and solve that issue, Steven Niedzielski, solutions engineer at LucidLink, said Nov. 14, during the webinar “Anytime, Anywhere Active Archive & Retrieval in a Single Solution.”

Advantages of Active Archive with LucidLink include: gaining immediate access to data for current and future use; it requires no hardware because the robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform is always available and infinitely scalable, with zero knowledge encryption and application compatibility; Recovery Time Objective allows users to navigate right to their files immediately; and users can connect to this archive from anywhere, including from multiple locations, according to LucidLink.

“A LucidLink basic file space is essentially what we call a file space that is backed by Wasabi,” Niedzielski. “We have a bundle that’s all pre-configured on our site. You can easily select that and it automatically just configures it with Wasabi as the back end. So that part’s really easy.”

He then explained the advantages of LucidLink’s collaboration platform that he said allows users to collaborate directly together almost as if they were on a locally connected server.

He explained: “What that creates for you is it means that there’s a single source of truth. It’s a live, active data set that your whole team can connect to. It looks like a local drive. I’ll show you in a second if I connect to it. It looks like there’s a single SSD that I’m connecting to, but it happens to be that my entire team, anywhere in the world, can actually connect to that same data set and interact in real-time.”

And users “don’t have to download the files again,” which he called the “key difference” between this solution and rival solutions.

“Typically, when you are talking about using cloud to archive, you upload the file into the cloud,” he said. “When you need to use them again, there’s a recovery step.” But “that step isn’t needed exclusively, and that’s one of the key benefits.”

He guessed that some people “might be wondering, ‘Well, wait a minute. ‘If it’s in the cloud and I want to use it, what do you mean I don’t have to download it? That doesn’t make sense.’ And I hope anyone watching has that level of skepticism because I know I sure did the first time I heard about LucidLink … a couple of years ago,” when he didn’t think the solution would work, he conceded.

“But let me assure you it does [work], and that’s why I work here now,” he added.

The webinar was moderated by Isabel Freedman, alliance marketing manager for media and entertainment at Wasabi.