Founded in 2015, base (link resides outside ibm.com) provides cloud native media services, helping digital media professionals to store, process and manage their content at scale with integrated online media solutions. In its one-provider model, base consolidates and migrates media assets, offering cloud storage, media asset management and media workflow integrations.
Guiding clients through how they can consolidate all their media assets that are saved disparately on hard drives and/or shared online storage and a variety of legacy formats, base helps clients to migrate it all in secure cloud storage, index the files with metadata, and design their media workflows to include integrations with third-party software. base essentially helps customers to centralize, secure and efficiently index media files in one content hub, where each solution is strengthened with ISO27001 certified security practices at every layer. The company is at the forefront of cloud and SaaS services, sharing and delivering hundreds of Terabytes of content per year with thousands of users. base helps clients reduce costs and improve workflow efficiencies while removing the challenges of managing complex in-house infrastructure.
From its inception, base partnered with IBM Cloud to host and run their cutting-edge media workflow solutions. The company provides a global file distribution platform as well as ultra- secure, instant access backup, archive and file sharing solutions for a range of clients by using IBM Aspera On Cloud, Cloud Object Storage, and Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
base has been recognised by numerous industry awards since launch, including jointly winning an IABM Design & Innovation Awards with IBM Aspera for the deployment of Formula E’s global media file distribution platform.