Atempo Signs root6

Atempo, Inc. has signed root6 ltd, a supplier of technology to the UK broadcast, film and post-production communities, to resell its Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) and Atempo Time Navigator (ATN) to data-intensive environments across the media and entertainment industries.

The partnership supports Atempo’s momentum in the creative industry. It gives root6 customers the benefit of Atempo’s backup, recovery and file archival software solutions that are designed to simplify the data management process and integrate into their project workflows. root6 will feature Atempo’s cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions in its post-production demonstration facility in Soho, central London.

root6 boasts a customer list including The BBC,Channel 5, MTV, The Moving Picture Company, The VTR Group, The Farm, Molinare and London South Bank University. File-based workflow experts in film and television environments, root6 has partnered with facilities of all sizes to enable them to achieve operational and commercial objectives.

Mark Jackson, sales director at root6, said: "There is a growing need among our larger customers for a robust, richly-featured and fully-integrated data protection and digital content archiving platform that supports complex and expanding data-intensive workflow processes. After evaluating the Atempo platform extensively, we were impressed with how it suited many of our customers’ cross-platform environments where the protection of high-value digital assets is a business imperative."

"As one of the UK’s most experienced technology consulting firms for the film and post-production industry, root6 offers a high degree of technical competence and a deep understanding of its customers’ priorities and processes. As such, partnering with such an established player represents a major milestone for Atempo and enhances our growing credentials in an important market and outlines. It also emphasize Atempo’s commitment in providing best of breed data protection and archiving solutions to our media customers such as Deluxe Digital, Efilm, Reelz Channel, National Film Board of Canada and new prospective customers," said Stéphane Kirchacker, managing director, Northern Europe and business development at Atempo.