SGL To Unveil FlashNet Lite Next Month

SGL will unveil its new entry-level archive solution, FlashNet Lite, at IBC2016 next month, Stand 7.J15. The solution includes the company's new user interface, FlashNet Infinity.

FlashNet Lite comes in two configurations – FL Disk and FL Hybrid – providing customers with disk only content storage or a combination of disk and tape. The software runs on a single server node, and provides both the Infinity dashboard and key FlashNet tools including integration with a range of partner solutions and storage devices, business storage rules, and partial file restore.

Also at IBC, will be demonstrations of FlashNet Infinity, which delivers a toolset for archive and restore functionality, system health, monitoring, analysis and more. It is available as a free upgrade to all SGL FlashNet users covered by a current support contract who are running FlashNet 6.6 or later. While FlashNet itself is optimised for enterprise-level archiving, with the capability for automatic fail-over and for distributed processing of very high levels of activity, Infinity is designed for high-performance search, monitoring and analysis.

Infinity is a web-based framework that runs dashboards containing one or more gadgets. Each gadget offers a tool, which for convenience are grouped into searching, monitoring, analysing and system administration categories by SGL. While some dashboards are pre-configured by SGL as system-defined, others can be created by the organisation or by the individual user by dragging and dropping gadgets. All dashboards can be modified to fit the organisation, depending on the access rights of a specific user.

Lee Sheppard, Director of Product Management, SGL, commented: "At SGL we aim to provide archive solutions to fit the size and budget of every media company worldwide. FlashNet is the most accessible content storage management system available to the video industry and by launching FlashNet Lite with Infinity, we're providing a sophisticated entry-level archive that includes many of FlashNet's important features at a price point suited to smaller facilities."

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(JP/LM)