Publisher: http://usatoday.com
Spectra Logic today announced the publication of “Digital Data Storage Outlook 2019,” the company’s fourth annual report on the data storage industry. The report examines the future of data management, usage and storage, and details the current state of the industry and the opportunities that organizations have to preserve their digital assets indefinitely.
Publisher: http://primeurmagazine.com
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.
Publisher: https://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk
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 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.”
Research data can accumulate fast. A Spectra Logic tape library stores petabytes for Vanderbilt’s research center, and the university plans to use far more backup storage space.
The winners of the 2018 DMW Awards are listed below within the six main categories plus subcategories. The DMW Awards received a very large number of entries, requiring hard work from the judging panel who have come away with a greater understanding of the demands, expertise and goals that are currently at work in the broadcast production and post production industries. Many thanks to all entrants and congratulations to the winners.
Publisher: www.olcf.ornl.gov
The new Spectra Logic system will improve storage efficiency by consolidating data from all of the OLCF’s current data storage systems into this single library, reducing the physical footprint by 85 percent.
Publisher: Storage Magazine
Several tape-based market options were in consideration for this new digital preservation infrastructure. The preferred solution was a Spectra Logic architecture with two expanded Spectra T950 Tape Libraries and two Spectra BlackPearl Converged Storage System appliances.
Publisher: Scientific Computing World
Spectra Logic, a provider of idata storage solutions for the modern data centre, has announced new tape technology, the IBM TS1160, for use in Spectra’s enterprise-class tape libraries.
Publisher: Redshark
If you want really vast storage, and we really do mean vast, the Spectra TFinity ExaScale could be just the ticket. You’ll need an equally big room to fit it in though!
The word “exascale” is one of those terms made up by marketing people to imply something grand and ambitious without actually saying anything very specific. Often, they’re overblowing terms for fairly everyday things. In the case of Spectra Logic’s Tfinity, it would take a hard heart to complain about overblown sales copy, though, because it’s big. Very big.
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.