Once a year, the children of the Spectra Logic team get a glimpse into what their parents do while they are at work. At this year’s Spectra Bring Your Child to Work Day, more than 50 kids attended and were treated to a day of education and memorable experiences. In addition to learning about what their parents do at Spectra, the children enjoyed many exciting activities at the company’s Boulder headquarters. Needless to say, it was a lively day! The annual event is organized by Spectra’ SUMMIT, a women-led organization within Spectra Logic that fosters an enhanced culture of diversity at the company. Many Spectra employees volunteer to help generate ideas and run activities. Below are a few highlights from the event.
Spectra announces new data mover for BlackPearl solution and certifies more BlackPearl clients
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Spectra Logic has enhanced its popular BlackPearl Converged Storage Platform with the addition of Spectra RioBroker version 1.01. Spectra RioBroker acts as a data mover to speed file transfers, streamline workflows and scale out BlackPearl in both performance and capacity to accommodate growing amounts of digital assets.
Spectra Logic and Arcitecta Debut Joint Genomics Data Management Solution at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo ‘19
Joint Solution Cuts Storage Costs and Enables Scientists to Focus on Science Instead of Data Management
Bio-IT World 2019, BOSTON – April 16, 2019 — Spectra Logic and Arcitecta will be premiering the joint BlackPearl® Converged Storage System and Mediaflux® Genomic Data Management Solution in Booth #626 on April 16-18, and presenting “Metadata – The DNA of Your Life Sciences Data,” in the Solutions Theatre, on Thursday, April 18, from 1:25 to 1:45 p.m.
Spectra Logic’s BlackPearl Converged Storage System solves the problem of costly and complex approaches to digital preservation by combining multiple standard interfaces and storage targets into a simple and affordable solution designed for diverse workflows. BlackPearl unlocks multiple storage targets including online disk, nearline disk, deep storage tape, and even public cloud.
Spectra Announces New Data Mover for BlackPearl Solution and Certifies More BlackPearl Clients
Spectra Announces New Data Mover for BlackPearl Solution and Certifies More BlackPearl Clients
Enhancements deliver painless migration and more efficient M&E workflows
NAB2019 and BOULDER, Colo. – April 8, 2019 – Spectra Logic today announced that it has enhanced its popular BlackPearl® Converged Storage Platform with the addition of Spectra® RioBroker version 1.01. Spectra RioBroker acts as a data mover to speed file transfers, streamline workflows and scale out BlackPearl in both performance and capacity to accommodate growing amounts of digital assets. As a software front-end to Spectra’s BlackPearl, an object storage platform that moves content seamlessly and economically into disk, tape and cloud, Spectra RioBroker offloads the data transfer job from the application to the Spectra RioBroker system. This brings greater performance, parallelism, scalability, ease of implementationand consistency to the entire platform. Spectra RioBroker also simplifies the integration process to popular asset management software applications by providing Partial File Recall and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) capabilities. Spectra’s RioBroker software is available now.
Spectra Logic Announces New Tape Features and Functionality, Setting the Standard for Tape Innovation
Spectra Logic Announces New Tape Features and Functionality, Setting the Standard for Tape Innovation
NAB2019 and BOULDER, Colo. – April 8, 2019 – Spectra Logic today announced several new tape enhancements to its family of tape libraries that help end users simplify and enhance their workflows. Spectra now offers Spectra® Swarm, which adds Ethernet connectivity to Spectra LTO tape libraries. Spectra Swarm makes tape connectivity easier and adds a modern interface to LTO tape libraries by leveraging all of the same infrastructure and networking capabilities as the rest of the equipment in a modern data center. Spectra Swarm is tested and qualified to work with Spectra LTO tape libraries — Spectra Stack through Spectra T950.
Trends in data storage
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The video surveillance industry continues to see a steady increase in the amount of video content being generated and stored, writes Eric Polet, Product Marketing Manager at the data storage product company Spectra Logic.
Spectra Logic’s Commitment to Excellence Remains Strong
Spectra Logic has earned its position in the industry as one of the leading data storage solutions providers based on its unwavering commitment to continuous innovation and uncompromising product quality throughout its go-year history. “Our mission is to take excellent care of our customers, large and small,”CE0 Nathan Thompson says. “We believe that superior customer support combined with technology innovation gives Spectra its competitive advantage.”
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Spectra Logic Announces Spring 2019 Industry Events
Exhibiting at Events in Media and Entertainment, High Performance Computing, General IT and Data Management Conferences
BOULDER, Colo. – March 20, 2019 – Spectra Logic today announced participation in seven industry events worldwide between April and June. These important tradeshows include Avid Connect (April 6-7), NAB Show (April 8-11), Bio-IT World (April 16-18), Dell Technologies World (April 29–May 2), GlobusWorld (May 1-2), VeeamOn (May 20-22), ISC High Performance (June 16-20), and Broadcast Asia (June 18-20). Spectra Logic executives will share expertise with existing and prospective customers, partners and professionals, and showcase Spectra’s suite of data storage solutions.
Spectra Associates Educate Students on Life and Business Skills
Spectra professionals spent a day teaching business basics to elementary school children as part of the Junior Achievement program. Here are four of the Spectra mentors from left to right: Christa Marsh, Ponemany Yang, Katie Wulliman and Valerie Miller.
On March 11, 2019, Spectra volunteers spent a day at Eisenhower Elementary School in Boulder teaching kids through the Junior Achievement Program. In particular, Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain, Inc. (JA) is part of the world’s largest organization dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. The Program’s mission fosters work readiness, entrepreneurship and achievement skills in young students.
Imagen helps businesses, sports organisations and media companies to manage and distribute their ever growing media libraries. This ensures fast, easy, secure and controlled access to content through a highly-customisable content portal. With video representing 60 percent of global data – and set to grow further – Imagen Ltd ensures companies can preserve their valuable content for the future and enable them to maximise its value. Imagen has over 1 million hours of video stored on behalf of leading brands.
Imagine Communications empowers the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation. Broadcasters, networks, video service providers and enterprises around the world rely on our optimized, future-proof, multiscreen video and revenue enablement solutions every day to support their mission-critical operations. Today, nearly half of the world’s video channels traverse our products, and our software solutions drive close to a third of global ad revenue. Through continuous innovation, we are delivering the most advanced IP, cloud-enabled, software-defined network and workflow solutions in the industry. 
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Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics, video playout, studio automation, sports analysis, journalist story tools, and asset management tools for the media and entertainment industry. This includes interactive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather, story and video editing, compositing, and multiplatform VOD and live playout tools. Vizrt has customers in more than 100 countries worldwide and the list keeps growing each day. This is made possible by nearly 600 engaged and very competent employees in 40 offices around the world. Vizrt’s business model provides its customers with complete packages, including hardware, professional services, installations, support, etc. Vizrt’s products are used by the world’s leading broadcasters, including CNN, CBS, Fox, BBC, BSkyB, Sky Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, Al Jazeera, NDR, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, CCTV, NHK and the list keeps growing. Furthermore, many world-class production houses and corporate institutions such as the London Stock Exchange use Vizrt systems.
Tiger Technology designs, markets, and supports innovative shared storage solutions that maximize workflow, performance and value. Our mission is to empower world-class organizations to share, manage and migrate their data more easily. Our range of solutions suit any application or deployment and lets you extract the maximum system performance possible, whatever the platform. They include simple project, media and data management workflow tools for shared storage (SAN, NAS) administration, clustering, pooling, hierarchical storage management and tiering, for use with enterprise data, editorial, visual effects and animation, and surveillance and medical applications. They are available in appliance, software-only and enterprise-class server forms. 
Focused and dynamic, Suitcase TV is a UK company specialising in software solutions for the broadcast industry since 2000.
The BlackPearl and Ngenea integration provides seamless storage tiering from primary storage to BlackPearl within user’s Spectrum Scale and PixStor environments, without having to rely on complicated software packages. Providing a single, simple ingest point, data flow is managed to each storage tier, while preserving easy access to content.
Providing Integrated & Automated Data Governance Platforms
NL Technology is an award winning innovator of solutions that bring cost efficiency and automation to file based acquisition and digital content management workflows since 2000. The talented development team at NL Technology continues to put forth solutions that bring efficiency and cost savings to their customers with tools that enhance and simplify operations.
Marquis moves media and metadata between different systems in broadcast and post-production workflows.
Levels Beyond is the Denver-based company behind the software platform Reach Engine that allows companies to create and curate video content on new era tools and enable smart, secure and elastic cloud services in sync with media workflow. With Reach Engine, Levels Beyond has created an evolvable and customizable system serving more than 70 Tier One clients internationally. Levels Beyond partners with companies of all sizes to create innovative solutions that advance media businesses. Learn more at 
Komprise, the first intelligent data management service, empowers businesses to efficiently manage today’s massive scale of data growth while unlocking its value. The Komprise mission is to radically simplify data management through intelligent automation. The Komprise team has a successful track record with two prior businesses of eliminating storage/IT cost and complexity. Backed by Canaan Partners, Komprise was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, go to 
The free, open-source Java Command Line Interface (CLI) is a simple tool to move files between local storage and BlackPearl. The Java CLI can be used to move files manually or automatically on a scheduled basis.
IPV Curator helps content creators to save time while creating more media. It enables users to make their content-oriented workflows more efficient, from ingest, to tagging, editing, file delivery and archiving. Curator is used globally by all kinds of content creators including traditional broadcasters, colleges and houses of worship. Its advanced capabilities include intuitive searching, remote cloud editing, and working on live growing content.
The free, open-source Eon Browser provides a simple drag-and-drop interface to move files between local storage and BlackPearl.
Cyberduck is a free, open source client for transferring files between servers, including both public and private cloud environments. The user interacts with the interface, including file transfer, by drag and drop and notifications via Growl. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports Windows system tray notifications and Apple’s Keychain and Bonjour networking. It supports over 25 different languages, allowing for rapid deployment into existing workflows.
CatDV is an easy to use yet uniquely powerful media asset management system used across a wide range of industries as a media database, logging, automation and collaboration tool. Ultimately CatDV helps companies find and reuse their media assets, helping teams collaborate, getting more done, saving both time and money.
Avid is the world’s leading provider of audio and video technology for media organizations and independent professionals. Avid solutions allow for the creation, distribution, and monetizing of the most prestigious and award-winning films, videos, music recordings, TV shows, live concerts, and news broadcasts.
Arcitecta specializes in data management systems for large-scale distributed data. Our core product, Mediaflux™, is an operating system for metadata and data enabling distributed groups of people to share, manipulate and manage any type of data.
ArcaStream enables companies to cost effectively store and manage their data assets. They provide highly scalable, efficient, enterprise class storage, network and archive solutions for the Oil & Gas, Life Science, Education and Research sectors. Their data centric approach simplifies data management within existing workflow and makes them the perfect partner for the supply and support of software defined storage solutions.