Full Name
Brian Campanotti
Job Title
Archive Transformation Visionary
Company
Cloudfirst.io
Speaker Bio
Brian Campanotti is recognized as a successful entrepreneur, thought leader, patent holder, published author and innovator in the area of large-scale unstructured data storage, archive and preservation. He is the founder of Cloudfirst.io, an innovative end-to-end technology and services provider focused on digital archive transformation and modernization, helping global content owners, producers and custodians develop and execute on their long-term strategies for massive-scale digital content archive, protection and preservation.
Prior to founding Cloudfirst.io, Mr. Campanotti was CTO at Front Porch Digital and instrumental in their emergence as global leader in the digital archive space. During his tenure, he helped guide the company through several successful transactions including its acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior to that, he founded Masstech, another leading provider of digital archive solutions, and began his career as a Project Engineer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Campanotti and his team have won three Emmy® Awards for pivotal innovation in digital archive technologies, long-term digital preservation and large-scale digital video implementations. He was one of the primary inventors of the SMPTE and ISO/IEC Archive eXchange Format (AXF) Standard and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Prior to founding Cloudfirst.io, Mr. Campanotti was CTO at Front Porch Digital and instrumental in their emergence as global leader in the digital archive space. During his tenure, he helped guide the company through several successful transactions including its acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior to that, he founded Masstech, another leading provider of digital archive solutions, and began his career as a Project Engineer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Campanotti and his team have won three Emmy® Awards for pivotal innovation in digital archive technologies, long-term digital preservation and large-scale digital video implementations. He was one of the primary inventors of the SMPTE and ISO/IEC Archive eXchange Format (AXF) Standard and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Speaking At
TTC 2021 Speaker Type
Roundtable
Topic and Description
Roundtable Topic: Is Data Tape Dead
Description: As we move into this new era of "remote" everything, has the time finally come to start to think about the death of complex, on-premise data tape archive systems we have learned to love (or hate)? We have experienced several watershed moments in recent years which could signify a trend away from this long-proven way of storing and protecting our most valuable media assets, but are media organizations ready to break away from these historically proven and hardened systems? Can we refocus our attention on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) rather than the features, pros and cons of particular storage technologies when architecting our next-generation digital archive systems? Can a potential move to the cloud achieve all of our content protection, preservation and accessibility challenges in a cost-effective fashion?
Description: As we move into this new era of "remote" everything, has the time finally come to start to think about the death of complex, on-premise data tape archive systems we have learned to love (or hate)? We have experienced several watershed moments in recent years which could signify a trend away from this long-proven way of storing and protecting our most valuable media assets, but are media organizations ready to break away from these historically proven and hardened systems? Can we refocus our attention on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) rather than the features, pros and cons of particular storage technologies when architecting our next-generation digital archive systems? Can a potential move to the cloud achieve all of our content protection, preservation and accessibility challenges in a cost-effective fashion?
