SGL Unveils Latest FlashNet Version

SGL has unveiled details of the latest version of FlashNet, as well as support for LTO-7.

The new version of FlashNet offers additional workflow opportunities and flexibility, and is a precursor to the company's FlashNet launch at NAB 2016 later this year.

FlashNet now supports reading and restoring from SMPTE's Archive eXchange Format (AXF). It can read and process AXF objects, providing greater flexibility for customers, and ensuring long-term availability of content in the future. Additional features also enable customers to allocate a pre-defined number of drives within their library for a specific role, such as archiving Avid jobs only, or restoring/archiving material at a certain time of day. This allows larger broadcasters with multiple drives to further improve operational procedures.

SGL's support for LTO-7 specifications enables tape cartridge native storage capacity of over 6TB, more than twice the compressed capacity of the previous generation. Tape drive data transfer rates are also double those of LTO-6. As with previous generations, LTO-7 drives provide backward compatibility with the ability to read and write LTO generation 6 cartridges and read LTO generation 5 cartridges, helping to preserve media investments and ease implementation.

Lee Sheppard, Director of Product Management, SGL, said: "This latest version of FlashNet further improves productivity for customers and is a warm up to the big FlashNet launch at NAB 2016. This will include an elegant new user interface that will be incrementally rolled out over the next 12 months. The new dashboard will further simplify archive procedures with sophisticated tools for archive and restore functionality, system health, monitoring, analysis and more."

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(JP/MH)