Leading transformational innovation in massive-scale digital archives.
Cloudfirst is a global, end-to-end services and solutions provider — built from the ground up to help clients plan and execute their next-generation digital archive transformations, mitigating business, technical and workflow risk while accelerating legacy archive modernization.
Cloudfirst is a global end-to-end services and solutions provider, leading transformational innovation in next-generation, massive-scale digital archives. We’re laser-focused on defining, developing and evolving the managed services and software that mitigate risk and accelerate legacy archive modernization.
We’re a globally distributed team of experts with a proven track record working with top-tier media and entertainment organizations, sporting leagues and teams, and government agencies and NGOs around the world. Our philosophy is to build a responsive, services-oriented team, prepared to engage early in your planning stages — leveraging our broad experience to guide you through your transformation, whether on-premise, cloud or hybrid.
End-to-end transformation
From first conversation to final
decommission.
Our products and managed services support clients right from initial conceptual discussions, through planning and migration, to the eventual decommissioning of aging, proprietary legacy platforms.
- Accelerate migration off legacy archive systems, proprietary software and aging data tape.
- Immediately halt continued capital expenditure on legacy archive infrastructure.
- Empower data-driven planning based on real-world legacy archive modelling and analysis.
- Accelerate time to monetization for valuable legacy content.
- Increase legacy archive SLAs, proving true disaster recovery and business continuance.
- Eliminate operational and technical risk during and after archive transformation.
- Identify potential risks and bottlenecks in advance of production migration.
- Avoid costly day-to-day staff involvement in the lengthy, complex migration process.
Company leadership
Built by the people who built the industry.
Brian Campanotti
Archive Transformation Visionary
Brian is recognized as a successful entrepreneur, thought leader, published author and innovator in large-scale unstructured data storage, archive and preservation — helping global content owners, producers and custodians develop and execute long-term strategies for massive-scale digital archive, protection and preservation.
Prior to Cloudfirst, he was CTO at Front Porch Digital (now Telestream), instrumental in its emergence as a global leader in digital archive, and helped guide the company through its acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Before that he founded Masstech, another leading digital archive provider, and began his career as a Project Engineer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto.
He was a primary inventor of the SMPTE Archive eXchange Format (AXF) standard and spearheaded its adoption as an ISO/IEC standard. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
3× Emmy®
Award-winning innovation
AXF standard
Inventor · SMPTE & ISO/IEC
Ex-CTO
Front Porch Digital → Oracle
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Let's plan your archive transformation together.
Engage our team early. We’ll bring decades of experience to your planning stages and guide you through – on-premise, cloud or hybrid.