ARCHIVE & DATA MANAGEMENT

Professional archive, storage, and data-management systems for artists, recording studios, and media organizations. For more than 30 years, Kent Hertz has worked with professional recording archives and irreplaceable media catalogs, from traditional studio tape vaults to modern multi-location network storage systems containing hundreds of terabytes of audio, video, and production assets.

EXPERIENCE

Steve Miller Band / Sailor Music Group
Current archive infrastructure and data management for Steve Miller’s extensive audio and video catalog, including multi-location Synology storage systems, archive migration, verification, monitoring, and long-term storage planning.

Julio Iglesias
Archive and catalog work.

Masterfonics & Emerald Entertainment Nashville
Recording vault and catalog management.

Spiral Recording — Hollywood
Recording vault and catalog management.

services

ARCHIVE SYSTEM DESIGN
Synology and professional NAS systems designed around the size, workflow, redundancy requirements, and expected growth of the archive.

DATA MIGRATION & VERIFICATION
Migration and consolidation of hard drives, servers, recording systems, and legacy archives with data verification.

BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY
Local redundancy, geographically separated backups, cloud archive strategies including AWS and Synology C2, snapshots, and recovery planning.

NETWORK & REMOTE ACCESS
10GbE networking, secure remote access, permissions, remote administration, and multi-location synchronization.

ONGOING DATA MANAGEMENT
System health monitoring, capacity planning, drive replacement, software maintenance, backup verification, archive ingest, and technical support.

MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT
Development of searchable catalog systems for locating recordings, masters, multitracks, video, photography, documents, and other assets.

PROTECT YOUR CATALOG.

The value of an archive isn’t the server it’s stored on. It’s knowing the material is organized, protected, verified, backed up, and accessible when it’s needed.