CANBERRA, October 2010 - DAMsmart, Australia’s premier provider of audiovisual media digitisation services, has announced XenData as its partner to provide archival management software for it’s rapidly expanding migration business.
DAMsmart has developed a sophisticated, high-end and large-scale audiovisual migration platform; the largest of it’s kind in the southern hemisphere. DAMsmart is able to migrate content from a comprehensive range of analogue film and video carriers to a diverse range of digital formats. “The platform required a robust, industry leading archival management system to facilitate the archival function in the workflow” Joe Kelly said, DAMsmart’s Media Migration Manager and platform architect. “After an exhaustive research process and careful consideration, we are excited to partner XenData and adopt the X64 Edition software. They met all our requirements and have the experience and integrity that’s needed to provide a market leading service.”
DAMsmart are accomplishing this project by configuring an IBM TS3310 LTO tape library, partitioned into two logical libraries. To maximize throughput, two IBM servers are being used, each attached to the tape library with each server attached to a separate logical library. XenData is running on each of the IBM servers, creating two digital video archiving systems that work in parallel. Each of the digital video archive systems uses XenData’s replication capability to write to two tapes simultaneously, producing duplicate LTO tapes for data protection purposes.
“DAMsmart are champions of open-standards technology. We provide services for both preservation and commercial purposes, and in an age where technology rapidly changes, we don’t want to burden our customers with the requirements of large proprietary infrastructure. Instead, we want to provide a solution that delivers our customers with the flexibility needed to manage archives now and for the future” Says Ron Anderson, Managing Director of DAMsmart. “Finding a partner that provides us with the software tools to ensure our solutions remain non-proprietary was paramount, which made XenData the ideal partner.”
XenData is a leading provider of digital video archiving solutions tailored specifically to serve the media and entertainment industry. XenData software is built on industry standards, providing a standard file system interface and archiving to data tape using the POSIX tar format. “DAMsmart has fast become the leading provider of audiovisual digitisation services in Australasian.” says Dr. Phil Story, CEO and co-founder of XenData “We’re excited to collaborate with DAMsmart to deliver an intuitive archive solution which delivers high speed archiving to LTO tape and future-proofs file access by using the open standard tar format.”
About XenData:
XenData is a leading provider of digital video archiving solutions tailored specifically to serve the media and entertainment industry. XenData systems and software deliver the high-performance and functionality required to meet today and tomorrow’s demanding digital video applications. XenData software is build on industry standards, providing a standard file system interface and archiving to data tape using the POSIX tar format. TV stations, media service providers, post production organizations and global broadcasters using XenData standards based approach are able to benefit from significant cost-savings, ease of integration with other standards-based systems as well as long-term assured access to their video files. With over 300 digital video archive installations worldwide, XenData is trusted by some of the largest broadcasters and networks including the BBC, Televisa and Warner Brothers.