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SGL Extends FlashNet Features
And Adds LTO-7 Support

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t CABSAT 2016, SGL will highlight
the developments in its FlashNet
solutions for content management,
archiving and disaster recovery, and
support for LTO-7.
FlashNet: The latest version of
SGL's FlashNet content management
solution includes a number of new
features.
It now supports reading and
restoring from SMPTE's Archive
eXchange Format (AXF). FlashNet
can read and process AXF objects
providing greater flexibility for
customers, ensuring long term
availability of content.
Customers can now allocate a predefined number of drives within their
library for a specific role such as
archiving Avid jobs only, or restoring/
archiving material at a certain time of
day. This allows larger broadcasters
with multiple drives to further improve
operational procedures.
"This latest version of FlashNet

further improves productivity for
customers and is a warm up to the big
FlashNet launch at NAB 2016. This will
include an elegant new user interface
that will be incrementally rolled out
over the next 12 months. The new
dashboard will further simplify archive
procedures with sophisticated tools
for archive and restore functionality,
system health, monitoring, analysis
and more," said Lee Sheppard,
Director of Product Management, SGL.
FlashNet archive control: This
expands to provide support for Avid
Web Services and Sony ODA. Whilst
the fully implemented Avid Interplay
Archive provides a seamless user
experience, smaller work groups may
require a paired down version.
SGL's support for Avid Web Services
means that customers can use the
archive capabilities that they currently
require, but can deploy Avid Integrated
Archive at any time in the future
without the need to re-archive any

content. SGL's integration with Sony
ODA opens up a world of workflow
possibilities, from disaster recovery
solutions to management of archive
material over disparate geographic
areas.
DR workflows: FlashNet's uniquely
scalable architecture means that,
whatever the scope of Disaster
Recovery (DR) requirements, valuable
assets are protected, automatically.
Rules-based implementations provide
fully-automated
data
duplication
across multiple storage layers and
locations.
FlashNet
enables
multi-site
operations to mirror and synchronise
data, across the globe. If one site
becomes inoperative, it can be rebuilt
entirely from data that has been
replicated to other sites. FlashNet
is also fully integrated with Aspera
allowing the transfer of media to the
cloud at a guaranteed speed.
LTO-7 support: SGL is announcing

SGL Director of Product
Management Lee Sheppard

its support for LTO-7 at CABSAT. LTO-7
supports tape cartridge native storage
capacity of over 6 TB, more than
twice the compressed capacity of the
previous generation, and tape drive
data transfer rates of up to 750Mits/
second for over 2.7TB of storage
performance an hour per drive.
LTO-7 drives will provide backward
compatibility with the ability to read
and write LTO generation 6 and read
LTO generation 5 cartridges.

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