Toronto, Dec 12, 2024 – Creative and media organizations stand to gain unprecedented control, flexibility, and efficiency in managing their digital archives, thanks to the strategic partnership between CineSys LLC, a leading Broadcast and Media Systems Integrator, and Cloudfirst.io, experts in digital archive transformation products and managed services. By combining CineSys’ engineering-centric approach to Media Asset Management (MAM) with Cloudfirst.io’s Archive Migration as a Service (AMaaS), this partnership empowers customers to securely transition their valuable digital assets to modern cloud environments, streamline workflows, and unlock new possibilities for discovery, automation, and monetization, all while minimizing risks and maintaining seamless operations.
Through Cloudfirst.io’s AMaaS, clients gain access to an end-to-end preservation-grade managed migration service designed to move valuable digital assets (files and metadata) securely to the cloud, whether to public cloud, on-premises object storage, or hybrid solutions, without disrupting ongoing workflows. Cloudfirst.io’s team of migration experts can handle large-scale migrations from all leading legacy archive platforms and technologies, offloading the burden of managing these long and complex migration projects from our clients’ own staff, while ensuring the most efficient and risk-free path to their future archive. Cloudfirst.io’s team of data scientists help remove all guesswork and assumptions from our clients’ archive transformation planning with their Legacy Archive Audit and Modelling Service, which empowers clients with detailed real-world insights into their archive utilization and workflows from inception through to present day, enabling smarter decision-making and reduced risks throughout the archive transformation process. With additional services, such as 24×7 support for legacy systems and advanced metadata enrichment through AI/ML tools, Cloudfirst.io ensures that clients not only preserve, but enhance their media archives, empowering them to unlock new possibilities for discovery and automation. Through this innovative partnership, Cloudfirst.io and CineSys can provide a powerful, collaborative approach to digital archive modernization, enabling clients to future-proof their archives and embrace the full potential of cloud-first workflows.
”Cloudfirst.io is thrilled to partner with CineSys to offer comprehensive archive transformation and modernization solutions that address the evolving needs of organizations in media and entertainment, broadcast, sports, and beyond. This partnership leverages Cloudfirst.io’s expertise in large-scale archive migration and legacy modernization alongside CineSys’ robust integration and project management capabilities, ensuring clients receive a fully supported and seamless transition to next-generation cloud environments.
Brian CampanottiArchive Transformation Visionary, Cloudfirst.io
Cloudfirst.io understands that the journey to the cloud doesn’t need to be a big leap. They offer clients a conservative path to reduce dependency on aging and proprietary legacy archive systems while embracing cost-effective cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity solutions as a first step on their transformation journey. Clients can continue to run on-prem and hybrid workflows, strategically adopting cloud solutions only where they align with their operational goals and maximize cost efficiency. Their preservation-grade archive migration services remove all vendor lock-in, ensuring that clients’ valuable media assets are fully liberated and future-ready.
”For customers with aging libraries and tape formats the time is running out to migrate valuable assets to a more modern, supported and appropriate platform that can give near instant access to archived material. With our CineSys IT engineering team providing support for our clients’ larger and sometimes massive archives, it only makes sense to partner with an organization like Cloudfirst.io.
As an integrator, we have responsibility for all the touch points, including networking, hardware, storage, and asset management implementations. By working with a migration team that truly understands teamwork, data movement, workflows, databases and REST APIs we have an amazing partner.
We’re very much looking forward to combining our forces in North America. This partnership will provide a concerted effort that is perfectly aligned with our customers’ best interest for the long term.
Brent AngleCTO, CineSys LLC
CineSys is an engineering-centric company with internal MAM and development teams that can not only support and integrate new tools, but also help build customized solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing workflows to optimize production speed and efficiency. CineSys and Cloudfirst.io are excited to help customers across North America gain control, flexibility, and resilience in their archive environments, empowering them to confidently transition toward a modern, sustainable media management and monetization focused future.
About Cloudfirst.io
Cloudfirst.io was founded to help forward-thinking organizations define, plan, strategize, and execute on their long-term digital storage and archive objectives. Decades of experience working with the world’s most significant content creators, curators, and custodians has empowered them to build a targeted, full-service team passionate about what they do and ready to help your organization today.
Website: cloudfirst.io
About CineSys
CineSys is a Broadcast and Media Systems Integrator providing solutions, integration, and support for digital content creators across North America. With decades of IT experience and a foundation in Media & Entertainment, CineSys serves a range of industries from broadcast and post-production to government, corporate, agencies, houses of worship, and sports. Their goal is to help companies get the most out of their technology investment, accelerating workflows with cutting-edge technology and strengthening infrastructures.
More information: sales@cinesys.io | 1-866-905-205
Media Contact: Petra Kobayashi, CineSys LLC | petra@cinesys.io