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www.inbroadcast.com | IBC2016 InShow Guide | 9-13 September

SGL Focus on FlashNet Lite
and Infinity UI
Lee Sheppard, Director of Product
Management, SGL, lifts the curtain on the
latest developments from the company...

S

GL is showing its new entry-level
archive system FlashNet Lite,
which is taking centre stage on the
stand.
FlashNet Lite comes in two
configurations - FL Disk and FL Hybrid
- providing customers with disk only
content storage or a combination of
disk and tape.
Running on a single server node,
FlashNet Lite can grow as the
customer's archive expands. FlashNet
Lite includes important FlashNet tools
including: integration with a wide
range of partner solutions and storage
devices; business storage rules;
partial file restore; and SGL's new
sophisticated Infinity user interface.
Visitors to the SGL stand can also
enjoy a full Infinity demonstration.
Providing broadcasters and content
owners with an elegant dashboard
that simplifies the management of

media archives, Infinity delivers a
sophisticated toolset for archive and
restore functionality, system health,
monitoring, analysis and more. It is
available as a free upgrade to all SGL
FlashNet users covered by a current
support contract who are running
FlashNet 6.6 or later.
FlashNet Infinity takes a novel
approach to the management of
archived assets. While FlashNet itself
is optimised for enterprise-level
archiving, with the capability for
automatic fail-over and for distributed
processing of very high levels of
activity, Infinity is designed for highperformance search, monitoring and
analysis. To manage the sometimes
conflicting objectives of very efficient
throughput and equally efficient data
analysis, the processing and database
demands of FlashNet and Infinity are
managed separately. Two separate but

SGL FlashNet Infinity
user interface

connected SQL Server databases store
FlashNet's transactional information
and Infinity's metadata and summary
data. The two databases can be run
on the same or separate servers,
depending on requirements.
Infinity is a web-based framework
that runs dashboards containing one
or more gadgets. Each gadget offers
a tool, which for convenience SGL
groups into searching, monitoring,
analysing and system administration
categories. While some dashboards
are pre-configured by SGL as systemdefined, others can be created by the
organisation or by the individual user
by dragging and dropping gadgets. All
dashboards can be modified to fit the
organisation, depending on the access

rights of a specific user.
There are several benefits to this
approach. First, Infinity can be
configured to work exactly as needed
by the particular organisation or
user. Secondly, SGL can easily roll
out additional gadgets to FlashNet
customers over time, with each site
determining how they will introduce
them. A third benefit of this technology
framework is that each gadget can be
embedded within the user interfaces of
SGL's partners' solutions.
SGL will also have a number of
partner demonstrations on its stand
by Arvato Systems, Empress, Glookast,
Marquis, Primestream and VSN
throughout the show.
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