Cambridge Imaging Systems Partnership with Quantum Provides Powerful End-to-End Publishing Solution

Cambridge Imaging Systems' Partnership with Quantum Provides Powerful End-to-End Publishing Solution 26 Feb 2014

Cambridge Imaging Systems announced today a partnership with Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM) to provide a scalable and secure end-to-end solution for content owners who need to store, catalogue and distribute media via a branded, feature-rich web interface. The combination of Cambridge Imaging Systems' Imagen Media Asset Management and Publishing system and Quantum's StorNext 5 creates a powerful and collaborative solution that is ideal for broadcasters and production companies wishing to create their own VOD or catch-up TV service, and production teams requiring fast access to a shared media repository, either onsite or online via a YouTube-style interface.

The combined system provides a comprehensive, highly scalable and configurable solution for archiving and publishing online, with multi-tier storage archives and granular security controls that offer fine levels of access over content and functionality. When Imagen is connected to StorNext scale-out Storage appliances, users can store originals, create multiple versions and then deliver content to customers in a branded web delivery platform. In addition production staff can enjoy lightning fast access to high resolution originals while customers can depend on web-based delivery of proxies via Imagen's public web interface.

Imagen is a highly scalable solution for managing & publishing media in a secure, fully customisable website. End users will experience a cutting edge range of features for searching, clipping, collecting and downloading, with access levels that you control. Automated ingest and distribution workflows will save you time. Secure data transfers and replication routines protect your data for the long term, while a range of system options from cloud to on-premises cater to a wide range of budgets.

Quantum's StorNext 5 delivers dramatic new levels of performance, scalability and flexibility for a new generation of the industry's leading scale-out shared storage file system, tiered storage and archive. Newly engineered from the ground up, StorNext 5 is a complete end-to-end solution that combines file management technology with easy-to-deploy appliances to support the world's most complex and demanding digital media workflows.

Tom Blake, Managing Director, Cambridge Imaging Systems, said, Our collaboration with Quantum's team and its StorNext 5 technology delivers the one Media Asset Management and Publishing system that can do it all users can store, transcode, catalogue and publish to a great looking website, with fast and secure access to assets.

Anniek Snauwaert, Global Strategy Manager Technology Partners, Quantum, said, Cambridge Imaging Systems' Imagen is a great fit with our new StorNext 5 platform. This partnership brings to our customers a combination of highly scalable and flexible storage offerings for online publishing and content archives with high-performance workflow requirements.

ABOUT QUANTUM

Quantum is a leading provider of specialized scale-out storage and data protection solutions for sharing, preserving and accessing digital assets over the entire data lifecycle. From small businesses to major enterprises, more than 100,000 customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding backup, archive and content workflow challenges. With Quantum, customers can Be Certain they have the end-to-end storage framework to maximize the value of their data by making it accessible whenever and wherever needed, retaining it longer and reducing total cost and complexity. See how at www.quantum.com/customerstories.

ABOUT CAMBRIDGE IMAGING SYSTEMS

Cambridge Imaging Systems have been developing software for media archive management systems since 1991. Their technology has been developed working on large-scale projects for corporate and government clients including the Ministry of Defence, The Police, The BBC, ITN, Imperial War Museums, IMG, Endemol and British Library. Their software systems have been developed over the last twenty years to provide a flexible architecture, able to interface with existing software and able to integrate with existing working practices.

Their archive management system, Imagen, contains a number of modules that are designed to work together in a coordinated way to reduce the manual intervention required to manage very large-scale media archives. It is possible to use Imagen as a complete media asset management system, with a customizable website for publishing online.

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