Aspera and Vidispine partner to deliver comprehensive MAM development platform
Aspera’s faspTM transfer SDK and Vidispine media asset management APIs simplify creation and deployment of multi-site content repositories
SMPTE (Booth #303)—HOLLYWOOD—October 23, 2012 —Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s large data at maximum speed, and Vidispine, creators of the Vidispine software platform for media software innovation, announced a global partnership and technology integration combining Aspera’s high-speed fasp transport software and Vidispine’s innovative API media asset management platform (MAM).
Vidispine and Aspera share the common philosophy of eliminating the legacy tradeoffs that companies have had to endure when deploying solutions to create, transfer, manage, store and process audio-visual content. Aspera’s universal high-speed fasp transport supports all data, infrastructure and storage types, regardless of location, and transfers the largest files with maximum speed, regardless of network conditions.
Vidispine’s flexible MAM platform enables users to find and work with any type of media, from any repository, in any type of editor, with anyone, anywhere. The combined solution delivers a complete media asset management backbone with all the features and capabilities necessary to support the most complex workflows with flexibility and ease.
“Vidispine’s platform allows users to build and implement structured workflows for remote content repositories that seamlessly manage file formats and resolutions,” said Erik Åhlin, CEO of Vidispine. “Integrating Aspera high-speed transport extends our platform allowing our customers to easily deploy their content anywhere it’s needed.”
Aspera’s high-speed transport platform, with a rich set of APIs, can be embedded into any application or platform to deliver fast and secure transfers of file-based content and metadata over the wide area network. The platform SDK includes server side components, web applications, and mobile options enabling transfer to and from virtually any device.
“More and more media companies rely on multiple distributed content repositories,” said John Wastcoat, vice president for Aspera. “Combining the Vidispine and Aspera platforms enables fast and seamless movement of content across repositories, supporting global workflows with the appropriate process controls and necessary file format validation.”
Media Contact: Rebecca Edwards, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, 44 (0)207 403 8878, rebeccae@rlyl.com
About Aspera
Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented fasp™ protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer experience. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. More than 1,800 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.
About Vidispine
Vidispine is an enterprise grade Media Asset Management backbone. The capabilities are exposed by well-documented and robust RESTful APIs, which work with any modern programming language. Vidispine lets software developers and service providers easily build new innovative rich media solutions. Vidispine scales from small archives to multi-site deployments and is agnostic in regards to OS, storage, media formats, application servers, databases and IT infrastructure. www.vidispine.com
Media contact:
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
US/Asia: Kim Willsher ( 1) 310 569 2603
UK/Europe: Rebecca Edwards 44 (0) 20 7403 8878
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