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A Media Asset Management (MAM) system must manage archives, wherever they are.

Companies and institutions that produce audiovisual content have a growing need for space to store their digital media.

Usually, media files begin their “lifecycles” on faster disk arrays, on RAID, locally or in the cloud, where they are quickly accessed for editing and publishing, and then moved to safer, longer-lasting and lower cost per terabyte media, often offline.

Thus, it is necessary to move files that are not needed by current productions to external storage. This process requires organization and a constant expenditure of time by media management professionals. The choice of process type, manual or automatic, and the type of external storage will depend on operational details and technology preferences, such as NAS systems, LTO tapes and cloud stores.

Being able to manage all these storage technologies, allowing users to create their “mix” of solutions and enabling them to make use of the best option for each phase of the workflow is fundamental for a media asset management (MAM) system. Welcome to Alfred 2!

Ready to send assets directly to external storage devices without the need for third-party software or applications, Alfred manages archived media on any type of technology, both on-premises and in the cloud, providing quick access to everyday or archived material, wherever they may be.

Assets can be moved between stores manually, through a simple and intuitive interface, or in a completely automatic workflow, using pre-configured routines.

This flexibility is achieved through a software “plug-in” architecture. And in addition to already being compatible with most of the main storage technologies, we can, as part of a deployment, develop plug-ins to make specific technologies accessible by the MAM system.

This is what we call Universal Archive!

In addition to deployment requirements, Alfred is regularly updated and made compatible with the newest storage options, such as AWS and IBM cloud storages services, among others.

Alfred creates lighter visual representations of media files that remain “online”, making it easier to search content, allowing its immediate reviewing and even its use in editing, through proxies. Besides allowing easy recovery of the original files whenever necessary, of course.

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Alfred 2: The Evolution of MAM