Bycast and Marquis Integrate Their Offering

Bycast Inc., provider of storage virtualization software for large-scale archives, and Marquis Broadcast, specialist in broadcast workflow studies and media integration tools, announced a joint technology integration partnership enabling Bycast to integrate Marquis’ Medway file exchange software with its StorageGRID storage virtualization software. This integration enables post production and broadcasting companies to achieve improvements in the speed and efficiency of digital workflows when transferring files between applications based on a range of hardware and software platforms. It also allows users to create highly efficient file-based workflows across multiple remote sites.

Medway handles media and metadata transfers by rewrapping and streaming the data, allowing it to flow freely between editing systems, asset management solutions and video servers without incurring bottlenecks that may otherwise occur due to file incompatibilities between systems. StorageGRID provides an enterprise wide view of media and metadata wherever it resides, while protecting against loss, media obsolescence and unauthorized access. This enables users to have uninterrupted access to all their media assets across multiple sites and heterogeneous storage environments within a single virtualized system that spans tier one through deep archive platforms from multiple vendors.

“Whether producing new content or repurposing archived assets, the translation of essence and metadata between different systems is one of the most troublesome and costly aspects of multi-vendor workflows,” said Granby Patrick, partner director, Marquis Broadcast. “These challenges and lost productivity costs multiply when workflows, libraries and archived assets span multiple sites. By integrating Bycast storage products with Medway, our joint companies can offer customers a truly integrated multi-site solution.”

“We are very pleased to be collaborating with Marquis Broadcast and are excited about the benefits this joint solution brings to studios and broadcasters,” added Dean Neumann, Director, Product Marketing at Bycast. “This solution will appeal to those migrating or repurposing assets between a number of formats, as well as those looking for greater collaboration and productivity among their distributed teams or when outsourcing to vendors.”

Bycast StorageGRID provides a unifying object store which preserves, protects and secures media assets over multiple decade timeframes and across many sites and tiers, presenting applications with a global view of all assets through standard file system interfaces. The combination of Bycast StorageGRID and Marquis Medway provides a platform for media and metadata interchange which eliminates the challenges of multi-vendor workflows, with the scale, performance and continuous availability that post production studios and broadcasters demand.