Stay live with makalu disaster recovery

In the fast-paced world of media management, continuity is key. When your main site fails, you need a solution that springs into action instantly.

makalu offers a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that ensures your channels stay live when it matters most. With the ability to switch operational in minutes, makalu provides the peace of mind you need to focus on delivering top-quality content to your viewers.

Your challenges

When it comes to playout disaster recovery, there are several critical challenges you face:

  • Finding a flexible, cloud-based solution that complements your existing primary playout
  • Needing a system that can be deployed and launched quickly
  • Requiring adaptability to match your specific services and needs
  • Ensuring rapid takeover capabilities in case of main playout failure

makalu addresses these challenges head-on, offering a comprehensive disaster recovery solution tailored to modern playout needs. It ensures operational readiness in minutes, with constant sync of your assets and playlists for immediate go-live capability.

With makalu, you gain a comprehensive, cloud-based disaster recovery solution that ensures your playout remains uninterrupted, letting you focus on delivering exceptional content to your audience.

Core benefits

Scalability and flexibility

Highly scalable and flexible solution that is adaptable to your specific needs.

Easy deployment and integration

Cloud-native modeling makes for easy integration through various interfaces with existing products and infrastructure.

Business continuity

Business continuity ensured with fast spin-up time or hot-standby mode.

Secure delivery

Secure content delivery supported by ZIXI and SRT error protection protocols.

Seamless synchronization

Seamless content synchronization with 3rd-party MAM vendors via XML-based schedule import.

Flexible management

A pay-as-you-go model reduces financial risk, complemented by XML-based schedule imports for easy playlist control.

Instant readiness, complete control
Ensure uninterrupted secure signal distribution

Fast uptime

Expe­rience lightning-quick deployment and seamless integration, ensuring rapid takeover capabilities that minimize downtime when it matters most.

Cost effective

Enjoy a pay-as-you-go model that eliminates the need for expensive hardware, allowing you to reduce operational costs while only paying for what you use.

Fully managed

Benefit from 24/7 monitoring and support from our expert team, with automatic updates and proactive issue resolution to keep your system ready at all times.

Fully featured

Access the complete functionality of traditional playout automation, all while enjoying a scalable solution that adapts to your growing needs and supports a wide range of formats.

Explore the entire makalu product family

The makalu family is a lineup of products designed to address the numerous challenges faced by media organizations in their playout workflows. Expe­rience how we support your company.

Covering enterprise automation, linear playout, event/pop-up playout, FAST playout and disaster recovery operations, the makalu family deliver compelling content quickly, reliably and at the highest quality on any device.

makalu automation

The only unified cloud and on-prem playout control

makalu linear

Create, access and run your channels from anywhere

makalu pop-up

Start, provision and operate channels for a limited time

makalu FAST

Manage and monetize your content easily

Deep dives

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