Cloud Ascent provides Qrate, a serverless media management platform that automates migration of on‑premises archives to cloud storage across heterogeneous vendors while preserving metadata and integrity. The solution offers a unified analytics dashboard for cost forecasting, real‑time health monitoring, and integrated technical support, allowing large media enterprises to scale migrations without manual provisioning.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Enterprises with extensive digital media libraries face ongoing challenges migrating aging on‑premises archives to cloud storage, managing heterogeneous vendor tools, and maintaining high availability without incurring prohibitive operational overhead.
Solution
Cloud Ascent delivers a serverless, enterprise‑grade media management platform—Qrate—that orchestrates end‑to‑end archive migration while providing continuous performance monitoring and technical support across multivendor environments. The platform abstracts storage‑layer complexities through automated workflows, enabling teams to plan, execute, and budget migrations from a single analytics dashboard. Real‑time telemetry ensures service reliability, and the cloud‑native architecture scales automatically to match workload spikes without manual provisioning. Integrated support services keep media assets available and performant, reducing the need for specialized in‑house expertise and lowering total cost of ownership.
Target Audience
Primary customers are large media enterprises, broadcasters, OTT platforms, and corporate archives that need to migrate and manage petabyte‑scale digital assets across multiple storage vendors while maintaining high availability and cost predictability.
Features
- Fully serverless infrastructure built on AWS Lambda and containerized microservices for elastic scaling and zero‑maintenance operations
- Automated migration engine that supports heterogeneous storage vendors (NAS, object stores, legacy tape gateways) with checksum verification and metadata preservation
- Centralized analytics console offering migration cost forecasting, resource utilization charts, and SLA‑driven performance alerts
- Continuous health monitoring and proactive incident remediation via integrated technical support modules
- RESTful API and SDKs for seamless integration with existing DAM, CMS, and workflow orchestration tools
- Role‑based access control and audit logging to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements
- Transparent, usage‑based pricing model that aligns costs with actual migration volume and support consumption