XenData And Marquis Launch New Project Parking

XenData and Marquis Broadcast have launched a new version of Project Parking software that is tightly integrated with XenData digital video archives.

Project Parking analyses content on shared edit storage, allowing Avid projects to be copied to a XenData archive. Finished projects can then be deleted from edit storage, freeing up valuable space. Snapshots may be copied to the XenData archive and then updated incrementally to provide data protection. The new combined solution allows the seamless management of offline LTO or Sony optical disc archive (ODA) cartridges, giving system administrators the ability to migrate projects to lower cost storage with unlimited space.
By combining Marquis Broadcast’s new Project Parking software with a XenData archive, users can move content to secure low cost LTO or ODA cartridges, which are then externalised and held offline.
The cost per TB of an LTO cartridge is typically less than 5% of edit storage, Marquis said. Project Parking will now identify any offline cartridges, allowing the user to migrate the whole project or selected content back to edit storage by importing the cartridges into a robotic library, or inserting into an ODA/LTO drive.

Key benefits include:
• Frees space on expensive shared edit storage – completed projects may be moved to lower cost near-line or offline storage.
• Minimises total cost – it is much lower cost to add the Marquis-XenData archive solution than to continually expand shared edit storage.
• Provides vital data protection for all Avid projects stored on edit storage - snapshots can be made of projects, storing these on a highly secure XenData archive.

"Project Parking allows you to take control of your Avid shared edit storage because it understands the relationships between Avid projects, folders and bins, and all its media," explains Simon Fearn, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. "Then having obtained this full picture, it is easy to select projects for transfer to the XenData archive."
"The lack of data protection for content on shared edit storage has been a major problem within the industry for years, and a failure of the edit storage will typically have disastrous consequences," said Phil Storey, XenData CEO. "Now, we’ve addressed this issue for Avid users with the enhanced Project Parking. It is easy to implement a two part strategy where completed projects are moved to secure LTO or ODA cartridges, freeing up space on the edit storage, and current projects are backed up using the incremental snapshot capabilities of Project Parking."
The new Project Parking is certified for installation on XenData’s SX-10 archive appliance and the XenData SX-520 Series of archive servers. Project Parking may be installed elsewhere on the network, but when installed on the XenData archive, it creates efficient data paths and avoids the need to purchase an additional server.

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