MAM & Archiving
SGL FLASHNET SGL’s FlashNet content storage management system delivers unrivalled levels of resilience, flexibility and adaptability. Regardless of the size or environment, its clustered architecture and open approach provide secure, future-proof business solutions that grow with the customer. FlashNet can control and manage all aspects of attached storage systems, whether to near-line, disk, tape, optical disk or the cloud. The software presents the broadcast archive as a single storage repository, ensuring a seamless integration into all types of workflows. SGL has developed an unrivalled integration programme providing broadcasters and content owners with a truly adaptable and flexible video archiving solution.
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SGL’s archive technology appeals to broadcasters large and small. The company’s new, entry-level FlashPack system provides the most effective content storage management system 'in a box' delivering all elements of an integrated Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) archive. There is no requirement to purchase any additional hardware or software and the new entry-level version enables smaller broadcasters and content owners to have a fully expandable archive. SGL ensures that all of its customers’ assets are fully protected, with many archive systems used as part of Disaster Recovery workflows or ready to be made DR-capable quickly and easily. Its scalable FlashNet architecture provides a clustered system of multiple servers, or nodes, each in constant communication. Each cluster node has identical software installed, and
each is connected via a fibre channel into the archive devices generally disk storage and one or more tape libraries. At the heart of the cluster is a Microsoft SQL database, which is usually installed across two servers running a Microsoft cluster for automatic failover. The past few years have seen a sea change in the industry’s approach to archiving, with the archive moving much further forward in the production process where it is now alongside ingest. SGL has been at the forefront of this change. With the successful take-up of LTFS, fully supported by SGL, broadcasters and content owners can benefit from true interoperability between what were once disparate systems. Now material can be acquired directly to disk and dragged-and-dropped to data tape and transported back to a facility.