Case Study: Department of Post of New Zealand achieves 3x faster film archiving, remote client uploads, and improved staff productivity with Oracle StorageTek SL150

Department of Post Creates Film Archives 3x Faster, Enables Remote Upload for Clients, and Increases Staff Productivity with Modular Tape Storage

Department of Post is an Auckland-based post-production finishing facility serving New Zealand’s film and television industry. Facing rapid growth and tight program turnaround times, the company needed to automate backup and archiving, enable easy remote uploads for clients with minimal training, and speed large-file transfers to support daily editing and delivery schedules.

By deploying Oracle’s StorageTek SL150 modular tape library (integrated with a third‑party server by Group 6 Technologies and Symantec Backup Exec), Department of Post automated tape handling and remote management with a two‑hour install. The change produced 3x faster archive creation (from up to 2 to 5 tapes/day), increased restore/write speeds by ~125% to about 9 GB/min, saved up to an hour of staff time per day, consolidated libraries to scale backups beyond 50 TB, improved reporting, and enabled remote client upload and off‑hours archive operations.

Department of Post of New Zeland

James Gardner

Director