StorageDNA Introducing DNA Evolution 3.1

StorageDNA, Inc.
announced version 3.1 of its LTO LTFS archive-retrieval workflow
solution, DNA
Evolution.

The company will highlight DNA Evolution 3.1 at the International
Broadcasting Convention taking place in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands on September 12 – 17, 2013. This version improves the
built-in mini-media asset manager with enhanced search and browse
features to help users find and restore digital assets, and supports
LTFS-based network delivery formats, such as Discovery Channel and
the BBC, providing easier data exchange.

"Our post production facility serves clients such as the
BBC, Discovery Channel, and Disney Nature. Because we work on
high-profile projects with enormous amounts of media that must be
kept online for an extended period of time, we need a cost-effective
solution with a fast and reliable archive-retrieval process. With DNA
Evolution, we can quickly archive the high-resolution media and
conform directly from the LTO tape-easily restoring content
selectively against an edited timeline," said Stuart Dyer, operations manager, Films at 59.
"The latest enhancements, including support for network
delivery formats and improvements to the miniMAM, will allow us
to be even more productive for our clients."

It’s a platform that combines nearline and archive storage on
LTO tape and was designed to help media professionals manage
digital content and lower storage costs as they transition to
file-based workflows. Built on LTO with LTFS technologies, it
new levels of archive-restore performance, allows media
workflows like conform from LTO, and delivers and browse
features to help streamline and speed up media pipelines in
production and post production environments.

Features include:

• Network delivery
  support: Including the discovery delivery format, open
  format delivery for BBC and others, will streamline delivery to
  broadcasters

• miniMAM enhancements: Included
  in every system, will help save time by providing search results

• Ability to configure which fields are part of global search
  provides relevant search results

• Customize clip views based on workflow, making it easier to locate
  content

• Jumping from search to browse allows for quicker search and
  restore workflows

• Automated transcoding workflow: Offers automatic creation of
  previews and makes it easier to locate content; create low-res
  previews with any third-party transcoding engine

It builds on the innovations of v3.0 including Smart
Conform, Smart Browse and upgraded miniMAM, global search, tape
tools, improved archiving-restore workflows, expanded support
for CatDV and Avid Interplay, and more. It’s capable
of conforming high-resolution media from LTO tape, with format
support for numerous conform workflows.

Optional features will be added throughout 2013 including XSIO
Archive Engine Accelerator, a fast LTO LTFS media archive
technology, and Smart Access LTO, which
enables LTO tape archives to act like a nearline, direct access
storage medium, so that media applications can access files on LTO
tape, allowing users to perform partial restores, transcodes, and
remote transfers.

"DNA Evolution
continues to lead the market as the only archive and retrieval
software designed to tap into the benefits of LTFS,"
said tC Chakravarty, CEO and president, StorageDNA. "By
building in a powerful miniMAM, we truly enable customers to
manage their media and create significant efficiencies in their
workflows. We are committed to developing the solution with key
features that not only solve pressing challenges for our customers,
but also make file-based workflows easier and more cost-effective
than ever."