IBC: Quantum Bringing StorNext Archive Solutions to Avid MediaCentral Environments
For production environments facing accelerating content growth, increasing resolution and expanding avenues of content distribution
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 10, 2018 at 2:32 pmQuantum Corp. announced Avid MediaCentral | Asset Management supports Quantum StorNext archive solutions.
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The combination of MediaCentral and StorNext is designed for production environments facing exponentially accelerating content growth, increasing resolution and expanding avenues of content distribution.
MediaCentral customers can utilize StorNext archive capabilities to store and protect content and keep it readily available for monetization.
Solution for Active Access, Low-Cost Archive, and Content Protection
Avid customers seeking an archive infrastructure for MediaCentral can deploy StorNext archive appliances and Quantum’s Scalar tape libraries as targets for MediaCentral archives. With StorNext as an archive target, MediaCentral users can take advantage of its ability to federate all archive data into a single infrastructure that can include Quantum Scalar tape libraries. Quantum archive infrastructure is designed to retain valuable content in a way that accommodates fast access for active content, and low-cost storage for inactive content, while providing secure data protection and flexibility to leverage all media types.
As needs or as storage technologies change over time, this archive infrastructure offers connectivity to the latest production systems and archive media platforms.
Single Interface for Content Workflows
MediaCentral offers a unified view of all archive content. With the integration of StorNext archive, it can take advantage of Quantum’s connectivity to tape, and Avid users can utilize StorNext media support and connectivity options via MediaCentral, through the ‘StorNext Connector’ plug-in, available for purchase through Avid or Avid resellers.
Integrated Intelligence
Quantum’s integrated StorNext technology offers policy-based data movement from active disk to a range of archive storage technologies including Scalar tape libraries, object storage and cloud. MediaCentral accesses this integrated intelligence via the StorNext Webservices API to optimize data movement efficiency, capitalize on integrated versioning and enable open standard exports such as LTFS.
Ed Caracappa, Sr. director global alliances, Avid, said: “Media producers need fast access to all of their content to generate revenue. The integration of Avid MediaCentral and Quantum StorNext enables visibility and quick responsiveness to archived media assets.“
Anniek Snauwaert, director, technology alliances, Quantum, said: “Avid is the leading technology provider of software tools and workflow solutions that power the media and entertainment industry. StorNext offers a powerful policy-based approach to data movement from archive disk to a comprehensive range of archive storage technologies, with connectivity options that are unmatched in the industry. Coupling MediaCentral with a Quantum StorNext archive appliance and Quantum Scalar tape library takes media workflows to a higher level of productivity and efficiency while saving costs.“
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