Spectra and helmut.cloud Integration

You've invested in decades of content on tape — thousands of LTO tapes that are cheap, reliable, and already paid for. But connecting that tape library to your cloud workflow means when you need something from tape, filing restore requests, waiting for an operator to manually kick off the restore, and hoping someone remembers to tell you when it's ready. Meanwhile your cloud storage bill grows every month because nobody trusts the archive. "Just keep it online, we might need it." Six months later you're paying for terabytes of "might need it" while perfectly good tape sits in a vault.

The Helmut Cloud and Spectra integration connects your cloud MAM directly to your on-prem LTO tape library via Spectra RioBroker. Archive to tape automatically. Request a restore from directly within the MAM — no separate system, no ticket, no operator. Progress is tracked in the Jobs dashboard and content comes back ready to use. One catalog spans hot and cold storage, so users never need to know where content physically lives — same search, same metadata, same workflow.

Ideal for organizations with existing Spectra RioBroker infrastructure, those interested in investing in one, who need tape to be accessible, not just archival — and want policy-driven tiering instead of a cloud bill that grows forever.