System and method for disaster recovery

#The present invention relates generally to business continuity and, more particularly, to a system and method for disaster recovery.

#Disaster recovery can include the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization, such as after a natural or human-induced disaster. In the broadcast and other industries where continuity of operations is important, N+1 redundancy is sometimes utilized to provide a backup for a given component. The backup component can operate in a standby mode, which can be an active or passive condition until a given component fails. While such redundancy can operate satisfactorily for isolated failure of individual resources, it can become complicated in disaster conditions, such as if multiple resources of a workflow (e.g., a digital media supply chain) process fail.

#This disclosure relates generally to a system and method for disaster recovery, such as for broadcast media assets.

#FIG. 1 depicts an example of a disaster recovery system according to an embodiment.

#FIG. 2 depicts an example of a monitoring and recovery process that can be implemented in a disaster recovery system according to an embodiment.

#FIG. 3 depicts an example a content intake process that can be utilized for a disaster recovery system according to an embodiment.

#The invention relates generally to a system and method for disaster recovery. The system can be implemented as a service in a cloud computing system that employs a plurality of cloud resources, including cloud storage resources for storing media assets and non-storage resources referred to herein as media resources. The media resources can include any cloud computing resources (e.g., hardware and/or software) that may operate in a digital media supply chain. In the cloud computing environment, media resources can be thin-provisioned and intelligently allocated to client media systems in response to detecting one or more failing resources corresponding to a disaster recovery condition. Since multiple, simultaneous geographically dispersed disasters are extremely improbable, thin provisioning of media resources within the cloud can permit a single physical resource to be sold to multiple clients in the same or different geographic locations.

#The media resources can be intelligently allocated based on understanding the media asset, such as can be determined from the asset's metadata. For example, rules can be selected for a given media asset based on understanding the type of media asset which can be ascertained from associated metadata for the given media asset. Additionally, incoming media assets can be modified, such as being transcoded to a reduced data rate, for data recovery. The modified asset can be delivered into the cloud for storage in provisioned memory resources or for real-time playout. The cloud storage resources can be fully provisioned to store media assets for subscribers according to each subscriber's level of service.

#As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, portions of the invention may be embodied as a method, data processing system, or computer program product. Accordingly, these portions of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware. Furthermore, portions of the invention may be a computer program product on a computer-usable storage medium having computer readable program code on the medium. Any suitable computer-readable medium may be utilized including static and dynamic storage devices, hard disks, optical storage devices, and magnetic storage devices.