SGL Announces IBC Preview

Software Generation Ltd (SGL), a leading provider of content archive and storage management software solutions, has announced details of the products they will be demonstrating at IBC 2010.
At this year's event, SGL will demonstrate their open system architecture, highlighting the substantial carbon foot print reduction, cost and workflow benefits that SGL's fully accessible systems provide.
Making its worldwide debut at IBC 2010 are advanced updates to Final Cut Server (FCS) interface. SGL's new FlashNet FCS interface enables a streamlined and productive workflow by allowing the archive to act as a longer term repository. SGL FlashNet's advanced features allow users to copy not move content directly to/from the online shared storage (or workstation) directly from the FCS UI, making the most efficient usage of data tape storage. This copy process works for both arcive and restore and brings far greater efficiency to FCS content storage.
Making its European debut at IBC is support for LT05. In line with SGL's continued progress to support all current storage technologies, the latest evolution from teh LTO (Linear Tape Open) Ultrium consortium, LTO-5, will be demonstrated on the SGL stand. With a native uncompressed storage capacity of 1.5TB on each tape cartridge this version of LTO provides one of the most cost-effective solutions available today. LTO-5 drives are designed with backwards-compatible read-and-write capability with LTO-4 cartridges and backward read capabilities with LTO-3 cartridges, helping to protect investments and ease implementation.
Also making its European debut at the show is support for Avid Interplay 2.2. Following comprehensive QA testing between SGL and Avid, SGL will demonstrate its support for Interplay 2.2, Avid's production asset management system. SGL FlashNet is still the only third-party archive management software that has been through the full Avid development and QA cycle and is available directly from Avid worldwide.
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