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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 5 | May 2016

InMedia

Endless Archive Opportunities With
FlashNet Infinity
By Lee Sheppard, SGL's Director
of Product Management

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rchive solutions have evolved
from a backend middleware,
hidden behind the playback automation
system, to one of the media industry's
key components for managing
hierarchical content and workflows.
As well as managing and simplifying
workflow procedures, today's archive
should provide users with sophisticated
dashboards that highlight system
health and monitoring, creating flexible
and detailed reports specific to user
requirements.
At NAB 2016, SGL unveiled FlashNet
Infinity an elegant user interface that
provides a sophisticated toolset for
archive and restore functionality,
monitoring, analysis and more.
The FlashNet Infinity dashboard
includes pre-defined widgets to search,
monitor and analyse archived and

restored content and system health
as well as admin tools to define user
accessibility. Dashboard tools can
be configured according to station
or operator preference, providing a
tailored overview of archive activity
within the facility relevant to a specific
user, a key feature of the FlashNet
Infinity system.
The SGL FlashNet Infinity dashboard
is simple to navigate with visually
pleasing data analysis and reports.
Users can easily check throughput
relating to the number of current
or completed jobs defined by asset,
department or system for any time
period. These trend analyses can be
used for projecting future capacity and
throughput requirements.
FlashNet Infinity provides small
broadcasters that don't have a MAM

system with a set of management tools
that allow them to see what's in the
archive or stored on a certain disk so
that they can archive material on the
disk, or restore material in the archive,
viewing a low-res copy on the FlashNet
Infinity dashboard.
The announcement of FlashNet
Infinity further validates SGL's
technical expertise and this has been
recognised by Avid, which has selected
SGL as an Avid Alliance Partner and a
key technology partner.
Avid certification, which is only
available to Avid Alliance Partners,
is granted to third-parties that can
prove a high technical standard and
seamless integration within the Avid
MediaCentral Platform.
Further highlighting SGL and Avid's
strong partnership, SGL demonstrated
its Avid Interplay Web Services plug-in
with Partial File Restore at NAB 2016.
Powered by Glookast, the partial file
restore functionality is a key feature as
it enables editors to easily select and
restore elements of a clip directly from
the archive in high resolution.

Prior to this, partial file restore
functionality could only be achieved
using the full Avid Interplay | Archive
system.
SGL's support for Avid Interplay Web
Services means that customers can
use the archive capabilities that they
currently require, but can employ Avid
Interplay | Archive at any time in the
future without the need to re-archive
any content. This has significant
benefits within the LTFS environment.
With the successful take-up of LTFS,
supported by SGL, broadcasters
and content owners can benefit
from true interoperability between
what were once disparate systems.
SGL's Interplay Web Services Plug-in
provides drag-and-drop archiving
using Interplay watch folders, without
the need for Interplay | Archive.
With a mature network of both
hardware and software partners,
SGL has developed an integration
programme
that
provides
broadcasters and content owners with
a highly adaptable and flexible content
management solution.
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