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SGL's FlashNet Content Storage
Management System
Future-proof business solutions that grow with the customer...

S

GL's FlashNet content storage
management system delivers
unrivalled levels of resilience, flexibility
and adaptability.
FlashNet can control and manage all
aspects of attached storage systems,
whether to near-line, disk, tape, or
optical disk. The software presents the
broadcast archive as a single storage
repository, ensuring a seamless
integration into all types of workflows.
SGL has developed an unrivalled
integration programme providing
broadcasters and content owners with
a truly adaptable, and flexible video
archiving solution.
SGL ensures that all of its customers'
assets are fully protected, with
many archive systems used as part

of Disaster Recovery Workflows, or
ready to be made DR-capable easily.
FlashNet's
scalable
architecture
provides a clustered system of multiple
servers, or nodes, each in constant
communication. Each cluster node
has identical software installed, and
each is connected via a fibre channel
into the archive devices - generally
disk storage and one or more tape
libraries. At the heart of the cluster
is a Microsoft SQL database, which is
usually installed across two servers
running a Microsoft cluster for
automatic failover.
The past few years have seen a sea
change in the industry's approach
to archiving, with the archive
moving much further forward in the

SGL has been at the forefront of the industry's changing approach to archiving

production
process
where it is now
alongside
ingest.
SGL has been at
the forefront of this
change.
With
the
SGL is integrating the cloud into its strategy
successful
take-up
of LTFS, fully supported by SGL, back-up the valuable material. The
broadcasters and content owners archive system can also automatically
can benefit from true interoperability copy the content to a disk portion of
between what were once disparate the archive so that craft editors can
systems. Now material can be acquired start working with the material as
directly to disk, dragged-and-dropped swiftly as possible.
to data tape, and transported back to
The cloud is also becoming part
a facility.
of the storage hierarchy, which SGL
Material can be moved directly into is integrating into its strategy. The
the LTFS archive, which removes new version of FlashNet, which will
the need to re-ingest content to be launched this Spring, brings to
the archive, and also enables large fruition SGL's new integration with
amounts of data to be transported Aspera. Using FlashNet, broadcasters
and archived on a single LTO tape. To and content owners can transfer
banish the 'end of the line' archive media to the cloud at a guaranteed
message, once the tape has been speed providing an additional means
loaded into the archive, duplicate of storage and Disaster Recovery
copies can be made automatically to Workflows.
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