Case Study: Tape Ark achieves petabyte-scale, compliant tape-to-cloud migration with Equinix

Petabytes of data unleashed via innovative tape-to-cloud migration services

Tape Ark, a Perth-based specialist in migrating tape‑stored data to the cloud, helps organizations from Hollywood studios to space agencies and governments unlock archived data for AI and analytics. As it expands globally, Tape Ark faced data‑sovereignty rules and customer requirements that forced it to place mass ingest points inside specific countries (for example, a multi‑petabyte project in Montreal), but building its own local data centers would be slow, costly and risk noncompliance without certified secure facilities and high‑bandwidth interconnection.

Tape Ark solved this by colocating in Equinix IBX facilities and using Equinix Fabric to connect directly to hyperscalers like AWS and Azure, bypassing the public internet and enabling rapid, secure tape‑to‑cloud ingest. The result: instant access to clouds, over 1 PB/day throughput with no downtime, significant savings on physical infrastructure, and the ability to replicate ingest points worldwide (plans for 10+ sites) while meeting strict security and data‑sovereignty requirements.

Tape Ark

Guy Holmes

Founder and CEO