FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2022

Acervo Globo's cloudification project aims to move the backup of our files to the cloud. We understand that such initiative provides greater cost efficiency, better access and more security for our content.

Even with the high investment involved in moving to the cloud, the cloudification of Acervo Globo is an economically attractive project, as we no longer buy LTO media, and depend on the costs of an outsourced company that previously stored our security backup.

The project flow is designed so that in case of failure to access some content on the main instance, our first instance backup (saved on media inside Acervo) is activated. The same content is only restored from cloud, our second instance backup, in case of a problem with the first one. Using the cloud only as disaster recovery, we mitigate the high cost of retrieving material from the cloud.

Other gain is the greater ease of access to content. With the cloud, restoring content is now just a click away, whereas before it could take from one day to the other for the content to be accessible. In addition to efficiency, we gained a lot in security, as the media no longer runs the risk of physical displacement - that was previously necessary to arrive from the outsourced company to our archive.

Another possible gain associated with the project is the use of technical resources that cloud provides, such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Training machines to identify Globo talents, for example, would allow for automatic indexing of characters in the treatment of our products, enriching the metadata and adding value to our content without burdening the teams.

The cloud and its countless resources are part of a world that is now unfolding for Acervo Globo, showing all its possibilities - and also limitations.