Front Porch Digital Qualified Archive eXchange Format

Front Porch Digital announced
that it will qualify Archive eXchange Format (AXF) technology for Sony Corp.‘s recently
announced optical disc archive technology unveiled at IBC2012.

This comes as a result of Front Porch Digital completing the process of
validating devices for DIVArchive V7.0, the latest generation of the company’s
acclaimed content storage management (CSM) system, and the first system of its
kind to implement the new open AXF technology.

Sony is collaborating with manufacturers in a number of related
business areas. The validation by Front Porch Digital means that Front Porch
Digital will support Sony’s Optical Disc Archive expandable robotic library
taking advantage of AXF technology. Customers who use DIVArchive V7.0 with the
Sony system will get the benefit of long-term storage and preservation through
AXF.

Front Porch Digital developed the new open AXF technology to
protect, preserve, and facilitate the exchange of content among storage
systems, and for the future. By implementing open AXF within DIVArchive, the
company has taken a step toward replacing outmoded legacy formats such as TAR
with an open and storage-agnostic approach, ensuring long-term
accessibility to the valuable content.

"When the Sony optical
disc expandable robotic library starts shipping, Front Porch Digital will
support the Optical Disc Archive system using AXF," said Geoff
Tognetti, SVP of engineering for Front Porch Digital. "Sony’s Optical Disc Archive system is a
complete archiving solution for file-based workflow, and we look forward to
seeing the system in action at IBC2012."

DIVArchive is a software-based middleware solution that interfaces
via 1/10GbE and 4/8Gb FC networks to connect diverse media
infrastructures with NAS, SAN, and data tape storage systems. At film
production studios, post-production facilities, and film archives, DIVArchive
V7.0 supports DPX packages with as many as 1 million individual files per
DIVArchive object and frame – and path-based partial-restore operations.