Latin America. AJA Video Systems has taken a proactive equity stake in data analytics software developer Diskover Data and simultaneously launched AJA Diskover Media Edition.
The new software is based on open source roots and allows media and entertainment (M&E) professionals to easily search, find and analyze media asset data originating from local, remote and cloud storage, adding associated metadata in a unified global index. The solution enables users to make more informed data decisions, a key capability as the M&E industry is on track to create more data in the next three years than in the past three decades.
AJA Diskover Media Edition is designed to serve a variety of professionals in the M&E industry, from executives to system administrators, IT managers, operational staff, creatives and more. The software allows users to easily index hundreds of petabytes of data and, more easily, locate files, analyze them, and identify misallocated resources. Ultimately, it saves businesses time and expense by helping them identify wasted storage space, outdated and unused files, data changes, and more.
With this system, metadata can also be collected seamlessly to add business context and information to files to inform data decisions and business processes, and to streamline workflows. It includes custom plugins that address the specific needs of M&E professionals around the world, regardless of the physical or virtual platforms used to store multimedia content.
It also allows users to search multiple platforms simultaneously and discover and present data in a master index, while generating reports and cost analysis for a variety of roles in productions or companies.
"We've seen firsthand how difficult data management has become for our clients in producing and publishing content, posing a huge challenge as the M&E market prepares for an unprecedented content boom. The speed at which files proliferate, determining where those files are stored, how much that storage costs, who is leveraging those files, and where they are archived is essential, but that information is often difficult to track," shared Nick Rashby, president of AJA.
