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Why Meta8?

Meta8 is a deep archive platform engineered for decades of retention. Customers retain full legal ownership of their content, storage media, and metadata for the life of the archive. Content is stored in open, non-proprietary formats and indexed with AI to make archives searchable, discoverable, and usable across decades of technology change. This transforms deep archives from passive storage into active assets, placing customers in a stronger position to monetize, license, and reuse their content over time. Even in the unlikely event that Meta8, our software partners, cloud platforms, or data center providers cease operations, customers retain the legal and practical ability to access and recover their content independently.

Technology

Meta8 combines air-gapped infrastructure with ALTO based storage to create an archival platform that is both future-proof and immediately practical. 

The result: secure, non-proprietary media and data that can be accessed in seconds—not hours or days. For a deeper dive into the architecture, visit our Technology page.

Media & Broadcast

Preserve decades of video, audio, and production assets in a format that can be searched and retrieved quickly for re-monetization, remasters, and rights verification—without exposing archives to internet threats.

Government & Defense

Maintain sensitive records, imagery, and mission-critical archives inside an air-gapped framework that aligns with strict security and retention mandates.

 

Scientific & Medical Research

Protect high-value research data, imaging, and longitudinal studies over decades. Meta8 helps ensure that today’s breakthroughs are still accessible to tomorrow’s teams and tools.

Legal & Financial Institutions

Store case files, transaction records, and regulatory evidence in a system designed for long retention, verifiable integrity, and rapid access when you need to respond to audits or litigation.

Security & Compliance

Security and compliance aren’t features—they’re the foundation of Meta8.

  • No attack surface by default – By keeping archives off the public internet, Meta8 eliminates entire classes of ransomware and intrusion risk that cloud-exposed storage still faces.
  • No egress surprises – Retrieval should be a business decision, not a budgeting gamble. Meta8 avoids the punitive egress models of many cloud providers, making access predictable and sustainable.
  • Built for your long term strategy – Our architecture and media strategy are designed for decades-scale retention, so your content remains readable and usable across multiple generations of hardware and software.
  • Compliance-ready framework – Meta8 is engineered to support regulated environments and stringent governance requirements, helping align with applicable industry standards and regulations.

 

Archive Cost Configurator

Curious how Meta8 compares to traditional cloud archive pricing? Our calculator will estimate your monthly and total costs for archives starting at 5 PB over a minimum 3-year term, so you can see long-term economics with full pricing transparency. Click here to try it out!

Can your Tier 3 archive offer these?

  • Air-gapped by design – Your archive is never exposed to the public internet or any one person.
  • ALTO-powered storage – Standards-based, non-proprietary data structure drawing ~100w/year/PB 
  • 60 Second access, zero egress games – Retrieve assets quickly without unpredictable fees.
  • Scaled retention – Architected for decades of archival durability.
  • Compliance ready – Built for regulated industries and long-term governance.
  • AI/ML indexing of object & facial recognition, speech to text, and a suite of metadata enrichment features.

 

Meta8 can give your archive a safer, more predictable home. Schedule a demo to see how Meta8 fits your workflows, or request a technical brief for your engineering or security team.

About Meta8

Meta8 was created by Meta Martis, a team with deep experience in media, storage, and large-scale infrastructure. We believe that the world’s most important data deserves more than commodity cloud tiers—it deserves a dedicated, resilient home.