Vista Worldlink Installs Front Porch Digital

Front
Porch Digital, Inc. announced that media
solutions service provider VISTA
Worldlink (formerly VISTA Satellite Communications Inc.) has installed a
complete CSM and migration suite that includes an advanced DIVArchive CSM
system, a DIVAdirector media asset manager (MAM), a SAMMAsolo migration
appliance, and access to the LYNXSM cloud-based DR and media asset storage
service.

With the new system in place, VISTA now includes online archival service and
management in its portfolio of services available to clients around the world.

"Many
of our clients had been asking about digital archiving, DR, and tapeless
workflows, so we decided to put a system in place that would give them a
customizable way to organize and manage their asset libraries online,"
said VISTA president Roy Liemer. "By
offering content storage management to our clients, we’re taking something that
has typically been a capital purchase and turning it into an economical
service. Our service supports all of a customer’s locations without the expense
of multiple location-specific capital investments. With secure access to VISTA,
users have instant online access to their content from anywhere in the world."

VISTA serves clients with
many different types of content and differing CSM requirements. Using Front
Porch Digital’s CSM solution, VISTA’s service enables the customer to digitize
and archive each individual asset in a single pass, thus preserving the value
of the content and the original asset.

The SAMMA process moves the unprotected content from videotape to digital
files, creating preservation and intermediate (edit) masters, as well as proxy
and XML metadata files. SAMMAsolo delivers the files to DIVArchive for
management and protection and, at the same time, delivers proxies and content
metadata to DIVAdirector for online access.

"A
lot of what we do is time-sensitive, so it’s important to do it as quickly as
possible," Liemer said. "Whereas
before it would have taken multiple passes to process a given piece of content,
now we can process content more efficiently – whether it’s a live event or
recorded material – because the system performs multiple processes simultaneously
and automatically, which saves us both time and manpower and meets our clients’
needs for urgency."

The DIVAdirector MAM offers a
browser-based search interface for keyword searching of client archives. Search
results are viewable using the archive proxies, allowing authorized users to
see the video before ordering restoration. Clients order the content for
restoration via DIVAdirector, which triggers DIVArchive to deliver the restored
content to FTP sites or to specific areas within VISTA for copying to HDDs or
other physical media.

With LYNX, VISTA offers clients an
additional level of library protection via a hosted, off-site content
protection service. Content that has been migrated by VISTA’s SAMMAsolo and
managed by its DIVArchive CSM can be automatically replicated to LYNX, or VISTA
can ship data tapes to the LYNX site. Depending on client requirements, VISTA
can also use LYNX and DIVAdirector together as the access and distribution
point for client content.

Front Porch Digital’s CSM and migration
suite met all of VISTA’s requirements for a complete, robust CSM solution – the
most important of these requirements being reliability, service, and
scalability. The CSM system has the flexibility to integrate with VISTA’s
existing MAM system, and it provides a customizable, intuitive interface with
processes and actions that are familiar to clients. The technology is
backward-compatible and flexible enough to evolve and grow with VISTA’s needs.

"Front
Porch Digital has supplied VISTA with an end-to-end solution that has allowed
it to expand its business into content preservation and library management – a
new endeavor," said Mike Knaisch, president and CEO of Front Porch
Digital. "VISTA started with the
cost-effective suite to launch its service, knowing that our solutions can
expand to any size required to match growth."

Front Porch Digital will display its
products at the 2013 NAB Show.