Case Study: Public Broadcasting Service achieves fully redundant disaster recovery archiving with XenData SX-525

XenData was chosen by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), to help streamline its disaster recovery needs.

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) needed a high-availability disaster recovery storage solution for its backup site in Lincoln, Nebraska that could support both real-time and non-real-time systems. PBS wanted a shared common cache that would remain continuously available for file and script ingestion, and it needed a system compatible with both workloads.

XenData implemented the SX-525 clustered LTO and RAID archive system to provide a fully redundant archive environment with no single point of failure. The solution gave PBS open-format LTFS/TAR support, compatibility with enterprise LTO libraries, and scalable near-line storage, helping create a full program origination system for disaster recovery. PBS reported that XenData’s clustered server met all requirements and praised the vendor’s technical team for delivering strong design and integration support.

Public Broadcasting Service

James Cutright

Director Project Management