feature automation & asset management
An archive system in today’s broadcast facility
Feature sponsored
delivers much more than just back-up
by Harris
procedures. Every broadcaster has the tools to
unlock their assets, digitise and repurpose their
content for commercial gain or for the benefit
of national heritage. Having the ability to tap
into new revenue streams is essential in
today’s market. An archive is not just an
investment for the future; it’s an investment for
the here and now. Howard Twine, product
manager at SGL, reports.
At the heart of
the matter
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n order to enhance management (MAM) or automation a broadcaster might originally use its
performance/lower costs, any systems? archive with a tape library for general
highly technical environment production and later decide to expand
benefits from consistent The relationship between the archive by adding the news
equipment review and upgrading the archive and MAM department. The news department is
when possible. In the case of the going to have different desires
broadcast environment, many parts of A MAM system at any broadcast regarding the accessibility of its content
the production and playout chain of facility is a significant capital to provide quicker delivery with a pre-
course benefit from this. But what
Howard Twine,
expenditure. It has dramatic defined timescale for storage on
about the central repository that holds
product manager
at SGL.
repercussions in all parts of the nearline spinning disk. This set-up
all of a facility’s valuable assets - the business and, as a result, when a might be in opposition to the original
archive? Because it sits at the heart of facility deploys a MAM system it has production archive so the archive
a facility and interfaces with so many to be stable, consistent and long system needs to be able to add more
other systems it is vital that it is able lasting. The MAM is the master, it bandwidth and offer soft partitions
to evolve and interface with new being ‘aware’ of automation, servers, between those departments to protect
technologies as they are installed. production, scheduling, rights the bandwidth and functionality on
Central to this, of course, is the storage management - the whole workflow each. The archive has to remain
management system, which interfaces from ingest to transmission. What the consistent and be able to archive
between the archive and the MAM system requires is a dependable material in a different way but present
production and playout chains. interface to the archive. If, for it in such a way that it is invisible to the
The data held within storage example, a broadcaster wishes to MAM or automation systems.
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components - be that nearline expand its archive by adding more Some archive providers will argue
spinning disk or tape libraries - must nearline spinning disks, those changes that the archive should hold all of the
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still be available throughout these must be absorbed by the archive and intelligence, taking control away from
changes. How can this be achieved presented to the MAM system in the MAM and automation systems. Yet
without ‘breaking’ the existing exactly the same way, day in day out. they tend to have far greater
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its serving systems, like media asset changes in the workflow. For example, If you put too much intelligence into
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