Empress partners with 1 Beyond to provide a comprehensive and cost-effective archive solution.

Empress Media Asset Management

New York, N.Y.--February 13, 2014

Empress partners with 1 Beyond to provide a comprehensive and cost-effective archive solution.

Empress Media Asset Management, LLC www.empressmam.com (Empress), a digital asset management and workflow management solutions company, and 1 Beyond, Inc. www.1Beyond.com, a manufacturer of purpose-built professional video systems, have announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive and cost-effective archive solution for organizations to archive and manage video libraries using LTO technology

The combined solution at a favorable price point includes:

•  eMAM™, from Empress Media Asset Management , offering a complete media asset management system with web-based proxy search, preview, and collaboration tools, combined with the ability to move and manage the digital files in the storage and archive.
• 1 Beyond EzStor™, a complete LTO library archive system, addressing the problems of complexity and cost and offering a scalable 24, 48, or 96-slot LTO LTFS robotic archive with intermediate NAS storage for instant file access.

One of the world’s largest media companies has now installed the combined solution to manage internal content up to 4K.

LTO archive systems are becoming increasingly attractive as a storage option for rich content, especially video, because of the low cost of archive storage, the long term data security of the LTO tape, and the ease of use and universality of LTFS (Linear Tape File System).  With eMAM, users can rapidly access and restore archived content from a simple web interface. eMAM moves content between different storage and archive locations directly from the web interface. The 1 Beyond EzStor is a combined software and hardware solution that manages the movement of the content onto LTO tapes and the movement of the tapes of the library. Large quantities of data can be stored in the EzStor library without the purchase of archive software middleware, traditionally a major expense of archive systems.

The combined solution will be showcased at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in April.

“We are very excited to market this combined solution so we can offer a powerful and scalable archive management system at a low cost, especially at a time when many organizations are seeing their budgets shrink,” said Empress COO David Miller.    

Terry Cullen, CEO and Founder of 1 Beyond adds, “The partnership with Empress has combined the eMAM and the EzStor products into one powerful unified system, which makes asset management and archiving for the user an easy, quick, and efficient process in a production or corporate setting.”

About Empress

Empress Media Asset Management, LLC is a privately held company providing digital asset management and workflow management solutions for broadcast, media, and corporate clients including its eMAM Online, eMAM EZ, eMAM Vault, eMAM Workgroup, and eMAM Enterprise product lines. It is part of the Empress family of companies, which includes Empress Cybernetic Systems Private Limited, specializing in customized software development, and Empress Media Inc., one of the largest distributors of blank recording media and supplies. For more information, visit www.empressmam.com.

About 1 Beyond

1 Beyond designs and manufactures purpose-built professional video systems for all aspects of the workflow from production through post, streaming, media asset management and archiving as well as SAN storage. Our reputation is for innovation, ruggedness and high reliability at a fraction of the cost of traditional high-end systems. Our value leadership is built on constant technical innovation including 16 years of video-industry firsts. For more information, visit www.1beyond.com.