BlueBridge Provides Storage Solution for Cleveland Museum of Art

BlueBridge
Networks, LLC, a cloud-based storage and recovery company headquartered in
Cleveland, has recently added to its customers,
the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA).

In this role, BlueBridge will be moving CMA from a physical media
long-term archive to a multi-location disk-based solution, which will improve
the media’s lifespan, provide a geographically disparate archive and improve
future portability to next-generation platforms.

BlueBridge has donated up to $600,000 to the project as part of the company’s
ongoing commitment to reinvest in the community.

"We are honored to provide CMA with
one of the most robust, resilient and flexible cloud storage platforms in the
market, and to protect data that is priceless to us and to future generations,"
said Kevin Goodman, MD and partner, BlueBridge.

Goodman added that his long-standing respect for CMA developed at an
early age, when he visited the museum during elementary school field trips and
fell in love with the grounds, the architecture and the exhibits.

"To be
intimately connected with preserving that heritage today is truly rewarding,"
he said.

"In many ways, this is a hometown
project, yet one with global implications. The world looks to CMA for its
wonderful collections and it’s amazing knowledge, and I can’t tell you how
excited we at BlueBridge are to play a role in their ongoing achievements,"
Goodman said.

"We are pleased to partner with a
Cleveland-based company on this project," said David Franklin, director, Cleveland Museum of Art. "As
I have commented on previously, the talent exists right here in Northeast Ohio
to help us find solutions to many of our complex technological challenges."

The BlueBridge team worked with IT visionaries at the museum to
coordinate the solution, according to Jane Alexander, director of
information management and technology services at CMA.

"The museum’s project team, lead by
Niki Krause and made up of staff from the museum archives, conservation
management, photo studio and conservation, selected a cloud-based archival
repository to provide redundancy/long-term preservation more efficiently than
the museum could support in-house; increase staff efficiency in retrieving
specific digital materials; and eliminate the need for 1,000-plus gold DVDs a
year," Alexander said.

The solution custom designed for CMA will leverage several key components of
BlueBridge’s Enterprise cloud, including block-level WAN replication,
file-level restore functionality and valuating technology on the long-term
archive to prevent any unintended overwrites of priceless data. Existing
technologies used by BlueBridge’s cloud storage also allow BlueBridge to
provide one site to many WAN replication should the need ever arise to house
data in multiple locations.

Scott Lee, GM of infrastructure solutions, BlueBridge, noted:  "When
this project began, I was probably the most excited I’ve ever been in my career
to be part of such an undertaking. To give you an idea of the scope of the
project, as part of the migration process, over 2,200 DVDs worth of data will
be transferred. And while physical media has long been a staple for long-term
archive, given the cultural importance of the data, it was imperative that we
designed a solution for CMA  that would
provide a viable path to future archive platforms, while also drastically
improving the resiliency and recoverability of the files. To that end, we feel like
BlueBridge’s cloud storage platform had the perfect blend of manageability and
resiliency to help the museum."