ADIC and ICF Sign Technology Reseller Agreement: New Digital Video Archive Debuts at NAB.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- New ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) The built-in firewall in Windows XP. It provides a stateful inspection of packets which accepts only responses to requests originated by the user. Solution Makes Deep Broadcast Archives Faster to Access, Easier to Manage and Cheaper to Own Interactive Content Factory (ICF), a developer of software products for the media industry, announced today the signing of a global value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. agreement with ADIC (Advanced Digital Information Corporation, NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ADIC), leader in Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market. Under terms of the agreement, ICF will integrate ADIC's StorNext management software technology within ICF Media Platform Archive solution, a broadcast video archive solution which ICF is presenting to broadcasters and service providers at this year's National Association of Broadcasters' show in Las Vegas, April 18 through 21. ICF Media Platform Archive is an add-on to ICF's existing media asset management solution, which has been deployed with ADIC's StorNext technology in several large-scale customer installations, including ones for MPS Broadband, TWI Twi n. A variety of the Akan language spoken in Ghana. , British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. (BT) and Telecom Italia Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy. Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina. . "ICF and ADIC have been working together on this project since early 2004," said Max Haot, ICF General Manager "and we have proven the technology in a wide variety of extremely challenging environments. That success led us to work with ADIC to develop our new archive solution" The new solution will allow broadcasters and users in other content-driven industries to save time and money by allowing them to remotely search, browse and select video segments for transcoding and delivery using partial restore technology. For example, if a user has selected a five-minute clip of a two-hour movie by viewing the Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. proxy, the partial restore solution selectively retrieves only those five minutes of high-resolution MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2 video from the digital tape archive tape archive - tar . Without partial restore the user would have to wait for whole movie to be retrieved from storage, which would take up to 40 minutes and use additional storage resources. With ICF Media Platform Archive partial restore, users search a low resolution proxy, and with a single click the selected video content can be restored from the archive, transcoded and delivered to external editing systems, playout servers or external third parties. Paul Szemerenyi, global account manager for ADIC said, "We are pleased to working with ICF as it offers a badly needed new solution by combining the strengths of our two companies' technologies. ICF understands the global broadcast market and has proven it can deliver and support the kinds of truly innovative solutions that the industry needs to take full advantage of digital storage and content delivery." Max Haot, ICF General Manager said, "When we initially reviewed the market for a file system vendor to work with, ADIC was the obvious choice due to the strengths of its StorNext software which is robust, productised and feature-rich. The combination of ICF's expertise in video formats with ADIC's products and leadership in storage management enables us to deliver a feature such as partial video restore to the broadcast marketplace within a short timeframe." ICF's Media Platform is a digital asset management solution that covers the breadth of asset management functions from ingest in·gest tr.v. in·gest·ed, in·gest·ing, in·gests 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat. 2. , logging, proxy editing, integrated craft editing, workflow, transcoding and delivery to multiple platforms. This week ICF is launching the release of ICF Media Platform v2.1, which will be demonstrated at the ICF stand (number SL2461)at NAB. ICF Media Platform V2.1 includes the first version of the Archive Module including integration with ADIC StorNext Storage Manager. The Media Platform Archive with its partial restore feature will be available globally from ICF in August 2005. About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (NASDAQ: ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the worlds largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(a) The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-based backup and restore solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers, OEMs and partnerships, including Apple, Cray, Dell, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com (a) Market Share: Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares, 2003, F. Yale, April 2004. ADIC, Pathlight, StorNext, and Scalar are registered trademarks, and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks mentioned in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners About ICF ICF is a software company wholly owned by TWI (part of the IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there Group). ICF's products are ICF Media Platform and ICF Netedit. ICF Media Platform is a software product for the ingest, management, production and delivery of digital content. ICF NetEdit is the only solution for Windows Media editing over IP networks. ICF clients include British Telecom, Telecom Italia, MPS Broadband Sweden, Mobix Interactive and TWI. More information can be found at http://www.icf.tv/ |
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