Front Porch Digital Releases DIVArchive V7.1

Front
Porch Digital Inc. announced DIVArchive
V7.1, the latest version of its CSM system.

Features and integrations, such as
LTO-6 support and the AXF handling, make the system suited for an array of applications in media operations of every kind,
including broadcast facilities, educational and heritage
institutions, production and post-production houses, and government
entities.

"DIVArchive was built to
interconnect every element of a video-oriented, file-based operation,
from archive to production to transmission," said Mike
Knaisch, president and CEO of Front Porch Digital. "We’ve
enhanced the already powerful system with some very important
features in order to extend usability even further and keep up with
evolving formats."

One of those features is support for
LTO-6 drives and media. The LTO-6 format has 2.5TB of capacity
compared with 1.5TB for LTO-5, allowing customers to store more data
within the same footprint and lowering the cost per terabyte. After working
with the HP storage group to earn qualification, the company has
extended DIVArchive to support LTO-6 drives for the entire range of
HP enterprise and business class tape libraries.

It also has a AXF Explorer, an
interface for parsing Archive eXchange format objects. Its operations
are performed using drag-and-drop procedures, just like in the
Windows OS. It can copy AXF files or folders to a local or networked
disk volume and can display any AXF embedded metadata.

Another accomplishment is the
partnership with file-transfer software company Data
Expedition Inc. to integrate its ExpeDat WAN acceleration product
into the product. This gives users a WAN acceleration option that is
managed and supported by Front Porch Digital, and it is the first
direct integration of a WAN acceleration protocol into a CSM
cloud-based solution.

This version also improves the handling
of file checksum metadata within the archive so that any application
can get the checksum using DIVArchive APIs . These features make it
possible for customers, and for storage-service providers, to get
checksum values calculated by DIVArchive and validate the integrity
of their digitized content at any time.

By integrating with Telestream’s
Vantage Transcode and Vantage Transcode Pro software packages,
DIVArchive V7.1 enables the range of Telestream’s video transcoding
and workflows. Vantage supplies users with more formats and provides
a way to build and automate video workflows.

Front Porch Digital will display
DIVArchive V7.1 at the 2013 NAB Show.