Crossroads Partners With Empress Media

Crossroads Systems, Inc. and Empress Media Asset Management, LLC, provider of media
asset management software, announced a partnership that offers the media and
entertainment industry a joint solution for the management and archival of
digital content.

Through the Crossroads-Empress partnership, StrongBox, Crossroads’ LTFS NAS
archive solution that serves as shared storage for data archive and
preservation, now works with eMAM, Empress’ signature software package that
provides Web-based platforms for managing digital assets. Crossroads partnered with Empress due to its proven technology and its market presence within the media and entertainment industry.

StrongBox, an enterprise storage solution to leverage LTFS technology, allows tape storage to walk and talk like expensive
disk-based storage. It’s the non-proprietary, file-based and  portable storage solution that offers cost-efficient
file archiving across a range of industries.

By
combining StrongBox technology with eMAM, organizations gain maximum content
management capabilities, while gaining cost savings by utilizing tape-based
archives instead of disk. The joint solution provides quick search and proxy
preview of content and makes archiving and restoration steps in the
production process performed from the eMAM Director user interface.

"With
the interest we’re seeing from media and entertainment organizations
surrounding the reliability and cost-savings available through StrongBox, it
seemed ideal to partner with an asset management innovator such as
Empress," said David Cerf, EVP of business and corporate development
at Crossroads. "Our joint customers benefit from
unmatched storage capabilities and superior management platforms that make
content archival a smooth, efficient process in the media and entertainment
work flow."