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Breece Hill announces iStoRA Video Archive Server for small to mid-sized broadcast and video organizations
Product Combines Innovative iStoRA Appliance with Pictron Media Gateway Software to Deliver First Fully Integrated Solution to Manage and Store Video Content
Louisville, Colorado – April 19, 2005 –
Breece Hill (www.breecehill.com), a leader in information storage and retrieval,
today announced that Breece Hill and Pictron have jointly validated a complete
integrated video acquisition media asset management and archive solution. Based
upon Breece Hill's iStoRA™ Video Archive Server, and designed for small to
medium-sized broadcast stations, post-production facilities, and video editing
houses, the VAS occupies only 4 U of rack space yet can store up to 660 hours of
content @ 25 Mb/sec MPEG2, and manage an unlimited archive of data on the shelf.
Independent and small group stations face the same data growth and archive
challenges as their larger corporate cousins as they move into the digital
data arena and convert to High Definition (HD) broadcasting. The dynamic and
time-sensitive environment of broadcast demands that even smaller organizations
must be able to rapidly access archived video content. Typically, these
broadcasters have neither the IT staff nor the access to easy, automated and
affordable archive solutions.
"The Breece Hill Video Archive Server is an ideal platform for Pictron's Media
Gateway Suite of products," said Darwin Kuan, Vice President of Business
Development for Pictron. "The combination of a Dual Xeon server for fastsearches
in our media database and both on-line Hard Disk and Tape archive storage all
in a single package is perfect for our customers."
The iStoRA VAS, part of Breece Hill's next-generation iStoRA integrated
disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) appliance suite, delivers the most efficient and
feature rich approach to data lifecycle management and archive functions for the
broadcast and video production market by storing data using a combination of hard
disk and digital data tapes. The tapes are easily exported out of the unit to the
shelf and managed by the archive software at any time. In addition, the archive is
not tied to any individual file system for maximum flexibility.
"Our customers need quick and easy access to video data through a solution that
is adaptive, automatic and easily customizable," said Scott Leif, president of
Globalstor. "iStoRA's Video Archive Server gives our customers easy and quick
access to tapes at any time without the hassle of being tied to a particular file
system. The iStoRA VAS also has power in reserve and the high performance dual Xeon
processors makes searching our customer’s data libraries simple and easy."
iStoRA Video Archive Server (VAS)
Breece Hill's iStoRA Video Archive Server provides broadcasters and video producers
with an automated way to archive and easily retrieve video content and related data.
The iStoRA VAS offer unique benefits, both to VARs and their end user customers:
- Easy to install and maintain - disk, tape, server, network connectivity and software for archive management in a single box
- Advanced functionality - for high availability and rich-content archive management
- One contact for support and service
- Lower TCO - typical installation is 30% less than comparable D2D2T solutions
iStoRA VAS technical features include:
- Pictron Media Asset Management Software
- Built-in XenData Video Archive software
- Fully-integrated Video Archive
- Built-in Dual Xeon Server
- Online Hard Disk RAID
- Near-line Digital Data Tape Robotic Library
- Unlimited offline media support
- Compact offline storage
The Pictron Media Asset Management software is used to acquire video content.
Video scene changes are automatically detected and representative key frames
extracted, summarizing the video content into a storyboard format. A text
transcript of the video is extracted from closed caption text or through
speaker-independent speech recognition to provide synchronized full text indexing.
Users can quickly skim through content and search for video segments by visual
cues, text content, and database information effortlessly finding key clips of
interest. The Pictron Media Gateway Search Server is a complete Web application
allowing Internet users to search for and interact with video using standard web
browsers. Web surfers, corporate gurus or anyone interested in the power of video
can search clips based on text, visual content, or database information. Results
are ranked by relevance with representative video frame, text transcript, visual
storyboard and database attributes displayed. Users can browse the visual storyboard
and navigate to specific video clip locations by specifying the key frame or
text transcript line.
The Breece Hill VAS uses XenData's Video Archive Software to manage the video
files stored on both the Hard Disk RAID and the Tape Library. It also manages
content stored on the shelf allowing users to rapidly retrieve archived footage
and restore it to a video server, Web server or computer for use.
XenData Video Archive Software Features:
- Universal Standard Windows File System for easy transfer of data between systems
- File Grouping to specified tape sets
- Fast Retrieval of Small Sections of Large Video Files
- Full bar code support
- Manages archived content on-line, near-line and off-line
- Automatic copies made for Disaster Recovery
- Archive database integrated to Media Asset Management module
Pricing & Availability
Complete systems that include the Breece Hill iStoRA Video Archive Server;
Pictron's Video Gateway and Media and Gateway Server; as well as XenData's
Video Archive software start at $50,000 USD. For more information, visit our
iStoRA d2d2t page.
About Pictron
Pictron (www.pictron.com) is a leading provider of interactive media solutions
making video searchable and interactive on the Internet and intranets. Pictron
products and services are designed to power next generation broadband rich media
applications. Using its advanced video analysis and artificial intelligence
technology, Pictron's Media Gateway Suite automatically segments and indexes video
into meaningful clips based on visual scene changes, speech recognition, human
face recognition, and object recognition. This process allows for exploration and
interaction with video on the Web. Instead of viewing video from start to finish,
users can quickly browse the video content through a visual storyboard format and
instantly navigate to any desired location. The Media Gateway Suite also allows
video search based on keyword text, visual content, and database annotation.
Pictron's dynamic and cost-effective Media Gateway Service provides the best in
video encoding, indexing, search, and distribution services enabling customers to
experience engaging rich media content without any investment in streaming media
infrastructure.
About XenData
XenData develops and markets software for archiving and retrieving high volumes
of data. The company, which was founded in 2001, is headquartered in Cambridge,
UK, and also has offices in Walnut Creek, California and in Munich, Germany.
XenData software provides solutions for managing large volumes of digital data on
a Windows server, storing to both RAID and high performance tape within a library.
XenData software runs on Windows servers and creates solutions that combine
hierarchical storage management, disaster recovery and provide legal compliance.
For more information about XenData software, visit
www.xendata.com.
About Breece Hill
Breece Hill is a leader in information storage and retrieval for
small-to-medium size businesses (SMB) and workgroups. Solving the problems
of backup/recovery and compliance/archiving, Breece Hill provides total solutions
with software, disk, tape, optical devices and software, including: iStoRA™
next-generation appliances with integrated D2D2T, Integrity® data management
software, tape automation, and MaxOptix optical drives. The Company was established
in 1993 and has shipped more than 25,000 units worldwide. Breece Hill distributes
its products through worldwide distribution, reseller and OEM channels.
The company has technical and sales support throughout North America, Europe and
Asia. For additional product information call (800) 941-0550 or visit the Breece
Hill website, www.breecehill.com
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