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ASG Software Solutions Introduces Updates to ASG-Digital Archive for Media Industry at NAB [Professional Services Close - Up]
[April 10, 2014]

ASG Software Solutions Introduces Updates to ASG-Digital Archive for Media Industry at NAB [Professional Services Close - Up]


(Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ASG Software Solutions announced new updates to its flagship archiving solution ASG-Digital Archive (ADA), including instant ingest of linear tape file system (LTFS) media for improved storage and organization of data, archiving to Amazon S3 and EMC Atmos for more efficient cloud storage, and integration with Primestream FORK 4.6 for more seamless media asset management.



In a release, the company summarized product features: Instant LTFS Media Ingest - Instant ingest of LTFS media to the archive enables customers to simply add LTFS media provided by subcontractors or partners to their central archive powered by ASG- Digital Archive in just two clicks. The first adds the tape media to the tape library and the second instructs ADA to scan the LTFS media content for free storage space and add the files to the archive database. This saves users a lot of time and effort by eliminating the need to extract tape content to disk just to archive it to tape again, resulting in significantly improved storage and organization of data and metadata.

Cloud-Based Archiving - With growing requests from small and large post-production companies to archive part of their data to the cloud, ASG has upgraded its integration with EMC Atmos for medium and large companies looking to implement private cloud storage. And, to further fulfill data archiving needs in the cloud, ASG has also added support for Amazon S3 cloud storage (via the S3 REST API) for small and medium volumes. With this integration, ADA is able to provide several complementary scenarios for disaster recovery in the cloud, making it an extremely accessible solution for archive repositories.


Media Asset Management - To achieve more seamless media asset management, ASG has integrated ASG-Digital Archive with the latest version of Primestream's flagship suite FORK Production. The new version of the ADA plugin for FORK leverages new capability provided by FORK Drones to offer more intimate and scalable integration between the two solutions to achieve a more complete, automated management framework for media companies.

"As the media industry continues to evolve, more and more companies are realizing the importance of having a secure archiving solution for their content and files," said Armel Bile, ASG-Digital Archive product manager. "We are providing state-of-the-art software that can satisfy everything from tape to cloud archiving requirements - and, it is our goal to ensure that we offer the necessary integrations and technologies to suit their needs. These three updates show our commitment to delivering the most valuable solution." More information and complete product details: www.asg.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved.

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