Active Circle Software at Version 3.2

Active Circle announced the version 3.2 of its software solution for storing and archiving large volumes of digital content.

This new release contains improvements for the storage of video, images, technical data, as well as for user data. One of the major new features in this release is Partial Restore (or Timecode-based Partial Restore), which allows users to retrieve a specific sequence in a large video file without having to wait for the entire file to download. Partial Restore is a key feature in the context of news or sports broadcasting in order to give editors quick access to an archived sequence. Active Circle uses the video timecodes to identify the sequence and serve it up to the requesting application without needlessly clogging bandwidth or disk space.

Active Circle 3.2 pushes back the boundary of storage limits by extending support to volumes of up to 100 million files. “This increase responds to the needs of clients who, for example, are managing massive amounts of images or scientific data. Henceforth, they will be able to organize their data into multiple spaces of up to 100 million files and thereby create storage infrastructures containing potentially billions of objects. This allows customers to optimize their use of hardware by distributing their storage resources while retaining centralized administration, which together help to reduce costs,” Philippe Motet, Active Circle’s CTO.

Finally, Active Circle 3.2 sees the introduction of support for NTLM v2 to guarantee compatibility with the Windows 7 authentication mechanism. This feature is particularly useful when managing work groups that use Active Circle as a shared workspace or as an archive for user data.