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Active Circle 3.2 accelerates access to content with Partial Restore
Jouy-en-Josas, March 25, 2010 – Active Circle is pleased to announce the release of version 3.2 of its software solution for storing and archiving large volumes of digital content. This new release contains major improvements for the storage of video, images, technical data, as well as for user data.
One of the major new features in this release is Partial Restore (or Timecode-based Partial Restore), which allows users to retrieve a specific sequence in a large video file without having to wait for the entire file to download. Partial Restore is a key feature in the context of news or sports broadcasting in order to give editors quick access to an archived sequence. Active Circle uses the video timecodes to identify the sequence and serve it up to the requesting application without needlessly clogging bandwidth or disk space. Active Circle has integrated technology from DAVID Systems GmbH to offer the new partial restore feature.
Active Circle 3.2 pushes back storage boundaries by extending support to volumes of up to 100 million files. “This increase responds to the needs of clients who, for example, are managing massive amounts of images or scientific data. Henceforth, they will be able to organize their data into multiple spaces of up to 100 million files and thereby create storage infrastructures containing potentially billions of objects. This allows customers to optimize their use of hardware by distributing their storage resources while retaining centralized administration, which together help to reduce costs,” Philippe Motet, Active Circle's CTO.
Finally, Active Circle 3.2 sees the introduction of support for NTLM v2 to guarantee compatibility with the Windows 7 authentication mechanism. This feature is particularly useful when managing work groups that use Active Circle as a shared workspace or as an archive for user data.
About Active Circle
Created in 2002, Active Circle develops and markets an innovative software-based solution that addresses the need for storing, preserving, and managing large volumes of digital content. The Active Circle software has been designed for organizations that manage video content, images, scientific and technical data, or user content to help them better control the lifecycle of their data while at the same time keeping down the costs of storage ownership and administration.
About DAVID Systems
DAVID Systems GmbH has been developing products and system solutions for the broadcast market since 1991 with a focus on radio, TV, and associated Internet services. The broad product portfolio represents all fields in a typical broadcast workflow as a single, unified system environment – from multimedia production to data exchange and file transfer to play-out and broadcast process control. DAVID Systems products are network capable, centrally administrable, based on standard industry platforms, and share a content management system.
