In Broadcast - July 2016 - 58


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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 7 | July 2016

InMedia

Demand Drives Software
Storage Solutions - Avid

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vid has announced the release of
a whitepaper by leading research
and consulting organisation, Frost &
Sullivan, that uncovers the need for
software-defined storage solutions
such as the new Avid NEXIS platform to
help media organisations manage the
exponential growth in content.
The whitepaper Future-proofing
Media Workflows through SoftwareDefined Storage: Making the Case for
Intelligent and Agile Storage Platforms
explores the impact of remote working
groups, multiple file formats and
the proliferation of digital content
on media organisations of all sizes,
and how software-defined storage
solutions can help them efficiently and
flexibly manage and store
media.
According to Frost &
Sullivan, the US and Canada
alone released more than 700 films in
2015, a 19% increase since 2006, and

there were more than 400 original
English-language scripted shows in
primetime alone, a 94% increase since
2009. When these figures are scaled
across every geography, spanning
over 35,000 broadcasters, production
houses, cable channels, MSOs, OTT
service providers, and magazine and
newspaper publishers, a picture of
unprecedented scale forms.
This content explosion, combined
with a growing amount of raw footage,
higher resolutions and frame rates
being seen in production today, is
putting immense pressure on media
organisations to increase agility,
collaboration and optimisation in
their workflows. The paper examines

Avid hails NEXIS as the "industry's first
and only" media-specific softwaredefined storage platform

how flexible and adaptable softwaredefined storage like Avid NEXIS can
help media organisations to manage
growing volumes of source material,
higher resolutions, faster turnaround
times, and the need to connect
geographically dispersed team
members.
Introduced at NAB 2016, Avid
NEXIS is the industry's first and only
software-defined storage platform
specifically designed for storing
and managing media. It enables
fully virtualised storage so media
organisations can adjust their storage
infrastructure mid-project, without
disrupting workflows. Leveraging
the power of the Avid MediaCentral
Platform, Avid NEXIS delivers
media storage flexibility,
scalability, and control for
both Avid-based and thirdparty workflows.
Designed to serve the smallest

The whitepaper
examines efficient storage management

production teams as powerfully as
the largest media enterprises, it's
built with the flexibility to grow with
customers at every stage of their
business - fulfilling a key tenet of Avid
Everywhere.
Avid NEXIS works with all top media
creation
applications,
including
Media Composer, Pro Tools, Apple
Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere
Pro, Grass Valley EDIUS, and many
more. Production teams can quickly
access a shared pool of virtualised
storage resources, which dramatically
increases their efficiency.

Tedial To Showcase Version Factory
& Evolution BPM

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t IBC 2016, Tedial will showcase
its multi-award-winning Version
Factory, the world's first true media
factory workflow and Evolution
BPM, the industry's fastest and most
flexible Business Process Management
workflow engine.
Version Factory won the IABM Game
Changer Award 2016 in the System
Automation & Control category at the
NAB show in Las Vegas. This is the
second year running that Tedial has
won the Game Changer award picking
up the prize in 2015 for its Tedial
Evolution platform. Both solutions will
be demonstrated throughout the show.

Tedial Version Factory

"This year we are very proud to
celebrate 15 years of technology
innovation," says Esther Mesas,
Tedial's Chief Sales & Marketing
Officer. "Tedial is a true industry
visionary,
bringing
the
most
technologically advanced MAM and
IT solutions to broadcasters and
media companies in all corners of
the globe. The company's multi-site
media management with businessdriven workflow enables end-to-end
integration providing the true benefits
of the media factory ideal. Tedial is
one of the few systems to deliver on
this promise."
Tedial Version Factory:
Based on 15 years of
innovation, Tedial's Version
Factory, the world's first true
media factory workflow, is
a single efficient and cost
effective
workflow
that
supports millions of file input
to output configurations
and can be managed from
a single operator screen.

Designed to interface to
content
management/
rights management/traffic/
work order systems for
automated
operations,
the
Version
Factory
stacks
chosen
media
engines
(transcoders,
quality control, DRM, CDN,
etc.),
employs
SMPTE
standardised designs for
future proof "N-input to
N-output" operations and
provides the maximum flexibility and
scalability for OTT/VOD Platforms,
Network Operations and media
companies focused on managing their
Brand across all distribution formats.
Evolution BPM: Recognising the
need for a media-centric truly scalable
workflow engine, Tedial's Evolution
BPM is the industry's fastest and most
flexible Business Process Management
(BPMN 2.0 compliant) Workflow
engine. Evolution BPM has driven
media management to a new level
by presenting a suite of scalable and
flexible Media IT software modules
that automate the preparation,
movement and distribution of media

Tedial Evolution BPM

internally and externally. Tedial's
strong research and development
and support structure means that the
company is always two years ahead
of the market. This cycle enables
customers to increase their business
efficiency with the most advanced
technologies and allows a continuous
evolution of software solutions to
adapt to future customer needs.
"At Tedial we believe in business
innovation,
transformation
and
efficiency. And we believe our people
are delivering the solutions our
customers need to be successful and
profitable," adds Mesas.
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