In Broadcast - February 2016 - 48


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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 2 | February 2016

InMedia

SGL FlashNet Integrates
With Marquis Parking

M

arquis Broadcast is continuing
its strong relationship with
SGL by developing Project Parking,
Marquis' Avid storage management
solution to enable Avid projects to be
archived and restored easily, via SGL's
popular content storage management
system FlashNet.
As a result, Marquis' Parking, a
complete Avid storage management
solution, is now fully integrated with
SGL FlashNet making archiving and
subsequent access to stored media a
straightforward task.
Parking, the only independent
application that understands the
relationship between Avid Media
Composer bins and Avid media,
monitors how media storage is
used, sends timely reports on usage,
illustrates storage usage over time
FREE Parking
tester...

and facilitates the transfer, archive or
deletion of media.
FlashNet, SGL's highly scalable
content storage management system,
provides resilience, flexibility and
adaptability. Regardless of the
installation size or environment, SGL
FlashNet's clustered architecture
and open system approach provides
secure, future-proof solutions that fit
together seamlessly.
"Parking for FlashNet now allows
facilities to archive and restore whole
projects: archive all bins, sequences
and media files," said Chris Steele,
Managing Director, Marquis Broadcast.
"Parking provides SGL FlashNet
users with a fast and cost-effective
archive and restore process, by
creating complete copies of any Avid
project and media onto the FlashNet
storage. By providing a simple vehicle
for archiving all media associated
with a project, Parking enables Avid
operators to archive complete projects
safely, quickly and easily between
systems within the same facility or

between multiple sites.
"We are excited to continue
developing our relationship
with SGL, as the combination
of Parking and FlashNet
offers an economical answer
to archiving and storing filebased content, by freeing-up
expensive shared storage,
by creating portable projects
that can be stored off-line," confirms
Steele.
"Storage management and content
retrieval is a key challenge for
broadcast facilities," explains Bernie
Walsh, Worldwide Sales Director,
SGL. "Parking for FlashNet gives
broadcasters the tools to improve the
efficient use of edit storage, improves
the reliability and speed of archiving
and reduces capital expenditure
on additional edit storage. Parked
projects also provide FlashNet users
with significant advantages for
disaster recovery procedures, business
continuity and inter-site workflows."
Marquis is currently offering a free

Marquis Broadcast Project Parking
for Avid storage

download of Parking, which analyses
how a facility's shared storage is being
used.
The FREE Parking application will
identify how much space projects are
taking up, and space wasted by orphan
and duplicate media.
"Although the free version won't
park your projects, it will tell you
what's parking in your storage space,"
said Steele. "Customers can easily
upgrade to Project Parking, which
enables them to clear up their Avid
storage, and provides a cost effective
archive and restore workflow with
SGL's FlashNet storage."

Kaltura Integrates 24i Media's TV
Everywhere Interface

K

altura has partnered with TV app
developer 24i Media to offer the
SmartTemplate user interface as a new
front end for its OTT TV platform.
The
integration
of
the
SmartTemplate TV app with Kaltura's
OTT TV backend platform means
that companies can now launch a full
multiscreen OTT service in a matter of
weeks - claimed as the fastest time to
market available.
The integration builds on both
companies' expertise from large-scale
OTT deployments, offering scalability
and a template-based approach for
easy customisation and enhancements
at any time.
Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and
CEO, said: "TV is changing rapidly,
and it's increasingly difficult for
service providers, content owners,
broadcasters and operators to keep
pace. Our goal is to ensure that our

customers stay ahead of the game
by continually offering them product
enhancements, greater flexibility and
scalability.
"By integrating 24i Media's OTT TV
app with our backend, we significantly
lower the entry barrier for reaching
the ten foot experience, and offer
customers even more choice to launch
a fast, cost-effective multiscreen
OTT service today that can be easily
enhanced in the future."
24i's TV Everywhere interface
includes templates that have been
incorporated into Kaltura's OTT TV
platform.
This allows companies to launch
a uniform OTT user experience
across multiple devices from the
outset. Supporting live and ondemand content, the interface
offers an intuitive dashboard for
easy navigation, social sharing

and
personalised
user
profiles across smart TVs,
tablets, mobiles and other
connected devices.
"Introducing our SmartTemplate
TV app with Kaltura is another
milestone for 24i Media," said Martijn
van Horssen, CEO of 24i Media.
"Together we offer an integrated,
world-class end-to-end solution for
OTT deployment, with maximum
functionality and innovation at
minimal costs and implementation
hassle.
"Our successful cooperation with
Kaltura confirms and strengthens
our ambition to shape and form the
spearhead of the future of TV by
delivering simply the best front-end
user experience in close cooperation
with our strategic partners."
Also, all future innovations on
the Kaltura OTT TV roadmap will be

supported on the TV app, meaning
that customers can transition smoothly
as new versions are released, with
minimal time and investment.
Kaltura and 24i's templates support
smart TVs and lean STBs as well as
game consoles, and even allow the
service provider to cherry-pick specific
platforms to use for their various
audiences, based on territory and
other criteria.
At CES, Kaltura demonstrated how
the integration of 24i Media's TV
Everywhere interface with Kaltura's
backend platform provides a uniform
cross-device experience on mobile,
web, and smart TVs, with applications
that can run on Roku, Apple TV, smart
TV, Amazon Fire and more.
http://www.inbroadcast.com https://youtu.be/196033g3HzM http://corp.kaltura.com/
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