Active Circle in Media & Entertainment
Active Circle is used by a number of large clients in the broadcasting and media industries for managing a flexible archiving environment that is perfectly integrated with their workflows and media asset management systems. Thanks to Active Circle, you can leverage your organization's video and audio assets, making them available when you need them at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage solutions.
Digital content is growing fast
The switch to an entirely digital production and broadcasting model combined with the HD revolution have created an urgent need for space to store and archive digital content, which is growing at an exponential rate.
Open standards enable cost-effective solutions
Companies in the media and broadcasting industries can now take advantage of lower costs when responding to their increased storage needs. The cost of storage on both disk and tape has fallen considerably in recent years thanks to the generalization of standardized computer components.
An archival space that is unlimited, secure, and accessible
Active Circle creates a virtualized storage space that can be extended on demand using standard, off-the-shelf hardware with integrated services for data protection, storage optimization, and supervision. Your archives are stored on either disk or LTO tape and are accessible through standard network protocols.
The Active Circle Advantages
- Storage on disk or LTO tape: Storage is grouped into pools of disks and tapes that can also be organized into a tiered storage solution (also called HSM) combining both.
- Partial Restore:Timecode-based direct access, read and restore from disk or tape. Only the relevant sequence is transferred and restored.
- Application integration: Active Circle can be easily integrated into your existing automation or media asset management systems thanks to its application programming interface (API) or through the standard protocols such as ftp
- Direct access to archives: Your archives can be accessed in the same way as if they were sitting on a file server using standard network connections such as FTP or CIFS (Windows) and are stored in a standardized, open format. Any archive can be accessed in a matter of minutes.
- Standardized TAR format on tape for longevity and easy data exchange: Archived data is stored in the universal TAR format, guaranteeing that you will always be able to read and exchange the information.
- Hardware independence: a software solution that can run on standard, off-the-shelf hardware that supports a wide range of disk storage devices and tape libraries.
- High-availability solution: Clustered, redundant access nodes so your content is available, even in case of a server failure.
More details with the Active Circle Media Solution Datasheet
First step into Video Archive with the Active Media Library bundle
