Khara moves archive to Wasabi's cloud

 Television and film production company Khara Inc. has migrated its operations and 500TB of archival data from on-premises storage to Wasabi Technologies cloud storage. According to the company, the migration has saved Khara around 80 percent in management and operations costs related to the data, while the infrastructure cost remains more or less the same.

"A major advantage of Wasabi cloud storage is that it frees us from frequent HDD failures and hardware replacements, allowing us to concentrate on system administration work," said Kazuki Misawa, chief system engineer at Khara Inc. "Repeated failures with our hardware increased the risk of losing irreplaceable data, and the fear of this happening kept me awake at night, as the large amount of data in each hard disk made replacement a nerve-wracking chore and replacing and rebuilding data on a single disk would often take one or two weeks."

"We’re excited to work with the innovative team at Khara to help keep their data safe and eliminate the headaches associated with replacing and rebuilding their on-premises solutions," said Aki Wakimoto, Japan country manager for Wasabi. "Wasabi will enable Khara’s IT team to work more efficiently and help drive creative ideating without being burdened with worries of data loss."