Spectra Logic and Avid Team Up to Offer Archive Solutions

Spectra Logic announced that Avid Technology, Inc. will resell Spectra Logic products, offering its customers a fully integrated hardware and software solution to manage content from ingest to archive. Spectra’s T-series data tape libraries and nTier data archive disk appliances will be sold to customers by Avid in conjunction with Avid Interplay solutions.

Spectra’s T-series data tape libraries and nTier disk appliances are available for purchase from Avid today.

"Spectra Logic nTier, coupled with Avid’s SGL media asset management software, provides a short term archive cache with quick and reliable access for near term on-air content," said Hossein ZiaShakeri SVP of strategic marketing for Spectra Logic. "Our data tape libraries provide low-cost, long-term digital archiving to insure easy management and availability of content in the future when needed."

Spectra’s T-series tape libraries and nTier disk appliances offer industry leading power efficiency, storage density, and scalability. In addition to Spectra Logic’s worldwide support offerings, Spectra’s Assisted Self Maintenance program allows users to stock spare parts onsite for fast and seamless replacement, guaranteeing maximum uptime.

"We’re excited to be able to offer a complete solution that enables our broadcast customers to manage hundreds of thousands of hours of video archives," said Doug Hynes, product marketing manager for Avid’s storage and infrastructure product lines.

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Avid Technology, Inc.