NEC and Empress Media Asset Management Join Forces

NEC Corporation of America and Empress Media Asset Management, LLC, in media integration systems and workflow efficiency, announced a new joint solution that provides media and entertainment companies with end-to-end functionality.

The joint solution draws on the resources of the two companies: Empress is known for its complete media asset management platform and NEC for its dense storage solutions. The solution, combining Empress’s eMAM Vault for an online proxy library with rich collaboration and media management tools with NEC HYDRAstor for secure and scalable storage for a complete system with data ingest, media lifecycle management, multiplatform delivery, and archive.

Media and entertainment companies produce and send large amounts of data and video across a multitude of platforms.

The combined solution meets the demanding needs of these organizations
while meeting their budgetary constraints:

• Reliable: the combined offering uses the bulletproof technology for HA and DR with the strong worldwide support teams of two technology leaders.
• Scalable: eMAM has a product line with models for a range of customers and needs, all of which scale to meet the needs of the largest organizations without obsolescence, while HYDRAstor is designed to scale to support throughput and volumes of data.
• Optimized: effective use of tiered storage and active archive meets the processing needs of an organization while minimizing the cost of primary storage and ensuring long term security of data.
• Flexible: a multitenant solution unites storage and processing in different locations as needed to meet budgetary and throughput needs with federated search across locations into a single point of truth system. The system minimizes risk by incorporating the power of on premise systems while taking advantage of cloud-based offerings as they continue to evolve and improve.
• Simplicity: the simplified interfaces and configuration settings of the two systems minimizes training and IT administration costs, while maximizing user acceptance and productivity.
  

“We are excited to partner with NEC, a leading technology solution provider, to meet the needs of organizations seeking effective solutions to manage and process the ever growing volumes of unstructured data, especially video. Our combined solution for media and entertainment will meet similar challenges faced in corporate communications, government, and education,” commented Empress COO, David Miller.

“Achieving compatibility with Empress, a leader in media asset management technology, strengthens our backup solution offering to a new market of customers,” said Hide Senta, VP, NEC. “This solution brings two leading companies together to create a powerful storage remedy specifically designed to meet the needs of the media industry.“