Cache-A Archive Appliances Embraced by Houses of Worship & Religious Groups

From multi-site ministries to small - and medium-sized churches, houses of worship and religious groups across the U.S. are increasing the use of video, radio and television messages to reach their followers and spread the word.



These organizations are adding information to their databases, such as images and video and audio files, at increasing rates. The result is much more data, more different file types and much larger files that need to be archived.

Faced with this challenge, many of these organizations are embracing Cache-A Corporation's archive appliances to preserve, distribute, repurpose and protect the audio and video-related data they generate each day. Cache-A's complete product line - including the Pro-Cache5, Prime-Cache5 and the new Power-Cache - is designed to meet the needs of digital media professionals for safe content archiving, access and interchange.

"We are delighted that so many houses of worship and religious groups are choosing our line of archive appliances to preserve their video content," said Phil Ritti, President and CEO of Cache-A Corporation. "We have specifically designed our complete product line to be cost-effective, while offering our customers the benefits of safe, long-term archival storage and fast, easy access to their content whenever they need it.

Here is a list of some of the houses of worship
and religious organizations
using Cache-A's archive appliances:

• Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Virginia Beach, VA
• Church Communities International, Rifton, NY
• City On a Hill Productions, Louisville, KY
• Community Christian Church, Naperville, IL
• Cottonwood Christian Center, Los Alamitos, CA
• Desiring God, Minneapolis, MN
• Fraternite Notre Dame, Chicago, IL
• International Mission Board, Richmond, VA
• Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, Los Angeles, CA
• Self-Realization Fellowship (Yogananda-SRF), Los Angeles, CA
• Vision.org, Pasadena, CA
• Word of Life Christian Center, Lone Tree, CO
• Wycliffe Bible Translators, Orlando, FL

Cache-A's archive appliances offer an integrated networked archiving solution to help increase productivity. Tape interchange, for example, is easy because every tape has its own table of contents, and the built-in searchable database of every tape makes it easy to keep track of - and access - every asset.

A way to manage multiple terabytes of archived data, Cache-A's Pro-Cache5 offers many of the features demanded for content archiving, interchange and access. Pro-Cache5 takes advantage of the LTO-5 data tape technology to offer 1.5TB of storage per cartridge, while also providing faster archiving speeds. It writes data on low-cost, secure, portable, interchangeable and LTO-5 tape cartridges with a 30-year archival life.

Just introduced at IBC 2011, the new Power-Cache Archive Server combines Cache-A's noted appliance functionality with more disk speed and better throughput. Power-Cache combines a high-performance blend of LTO-5 tape drives, 8TB of RAID and 10GbE technologies to provide digital media professionals with faster archive and retrieval transfers as well as greater flexibility for staging content, making duplicate tape copies and working with Cache-A Library and Expansion units.

The Prime-Cache5 is a new version of the  LTO-4 based Prime-Cache and has been upgraded with an LTO-5 tape drive and a 2TB hard disk drive in an improved chassis. It now features 10 times faster direct-attached transfers with USB 3.0. Optimized for desktop applications, Prime-Cache5 is compact and quiet.

Cache-A's new software adds the LTFS (Linear Tape File System) capability as an option to the industry standard tar format for its family of LTO-5 based archive appliances. Based on open source software, it enables users to interchange content across different operating systems, software applications and physical locations.