StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation), the data storage solutions expert, and Avid Technology, the worldwide leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management and distribution solutions, today announced a strategic alliance agreement that enables Avid to resell StorageTek’s premier L-Series and SL-Series tape libraries and associated tape drives to enterprises in the broadcast and postproduction industries. Through this agreement, customers will benefit from the combined expertise of two industry leaders to achieve advanced management and protection of their valuable digital media assets. This archiving process is managed by Software Generation Ltd (SGL), a leading provider of video archive management solutions and provide a fully integrated end-to-end hardware and software-based archive storage.

This solution consists of the following:
1) Archiving Server.
2) Shared Storage.
3) Disk Archive.
4) Tape Library.