XenData and axle Video to Provide Digital Video Archive Solution

XenData Ltd, provider
of LTO archive solutions to the media and entertainment industry, announced
that axle Video, LLC Gear
appliance now supports its SX-10 and SX-520 series of video archive solutions.

This combined offering will provide customers with a complementary archive
system that enables users to search, annotate, review and approve their media
files across several tiers of storage.

axle Video’s software treats XenData archives as a standard network volume,
allowing the user to move media to and from LTO cartridges. In addition, users
can collaborate on files located in the XenData archives via proxy workflows
and axle Gear’s browser interface.

This configuration makes the entire contents of the LTO archive searchable from
PC, Mac or iPad, and allows users to contribute shot selects, annotations
and metadata for those media, creating a simple process. Users do not need
direct or real-time access to the high-resolution video files, which can be
migrated off to any tier of storage connected to the axle system

The XenData archive writes all files to LTO cartridges using the open standard
LTFS or TAR format, allowing files to be restored for decades to come.
Furthermore, there is no special integration needed as both axle and
XenData technologies are built to work with standard file systems. Both
the high speed work-in-progress storage and volumes controlled by the XenData
archive appear as folders in the file system, and assets are moved freely
between these folders.

"As Media Asset Management Systems
(MAMs) have traditionally been expensive, complex, and difficult to deploy, we
have partnered with axle Video to offer a simple, open standard archiving
solution for the cost-conscious market," said Phil Storey, XenData
CEO. "Our solutions are designed
with similar principles – industry standards, affordability and with emphasis
on ease of use – and are quite complementary."

XenData and axle Video combined solutions are available. Complete installations
including services start at under $20,000.

They will be demonstrated at IBC,
September 12-17, 2013 in Amsterdam.