ADIC and ICF Sign Technology Reseller Agreement: New Digital Video Arc

ADIC and ICF Sign Technology Reseller Agreement: New Digital Video Archive Debuts at NAB

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
    NAB2005
    April 16-21, 2005
    Las Vegas

    LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2005--

New ICF Solution Makes Deep Broadcast Archives Faster to Access, Easier to Manage and Cheaper to Own
    Interactive Content Factory (ICF), a developer of software products for the media industry, announced today the signing of a global value-added reseller agreement with ADIC (Advanced Digital Information Corporation, NASDAQ: ADIC), leader in Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market. Under terms of the agreement, ICF will integrate ADIC's StorNext management software technology within ICF Media Platform Archive solution, a broadcast video archive solution which ICF is presenting to broadcasters and service providers at this year's National Association of Broadcasters' show in Las Vegas, April 18 through 21.
    ICF Media Platform Archive is an add-on to ICF's existing media asset management solution, which has been deployed with ADIC's StorNext technology in several large-scale customer installations, including ones for MPS Broadband, TWI, British Telecom (BT) and Telecom Italia.
    "ICF and ADIC have been working together on this project since early 2004," said Max Haot, ICF General Manager "and we have proven the technology in a wide variety of extremely challenging environments. That success led us to work with ADIC to develop our new archive solution"
    The new solution will allow broadcasters and users in other content-driven industries to save time and money by allowing them to remotely search, browse and select video segments for transcoding and delivery using partial restore technology.
    For example, if a user has selected a five-minute clip of a two-hour movie by viewing the Windows Media proxy, the partial restore solution selectively retrieves only those five minutes of high-resolution MPEG2 video from the digital tape archive. Without partial restore the user would have to wait for whole movie to be retrieved from storage, which would take up to 40 minutes and use additional storage resources. With ICF Media Platform Archive partial restore, users search a low resolution proxy, and with a single click the selected video content can be restored from the archive, transcoded and delivered to external editing systems, playout servers or external third parties.
    Paul Szemerenyi, global account manager for ADIC said, "We are pleased to working with ICF as it offers a badly needed new solution by combining the strengths of our two companies' technologies. ICF understands the global broadcast market and has proven it can deliver and support the kinds of truly innovative solutions that the industry needs to take full advantage of digital storage and content delivery."
    Max Haot, ICF General Manager said, "When we initially reviewed the market for a file system vendor to work with, ADIC was the obvious choice due to the strengths of its StorNext software which is robust, productised and feature-rich. The combination of ICF's expertise in video formats with ADIC's products and leadership in storage management enables us to deliver a feature such as partial video restore to the broadcast marketplace within a short timeframe."
    ICF's Media Platform is a digital asset management solution that covers the breadth of asset management functions from ingest, logging, proxy editing, integrated craft editing, workflow, transcoding and delivery to multiple platforms.
    This week ICF is launching the release of ICF Media Platform v2.1, which will be demonstrated at the ICF stand (number SL2461)at NAB. ICF Media Platform V2.1 includes the first version of the Archive Module including integration with ADIC StorNext Storage Manager.
    The Media Platform Archive with its partial restore feature will be available globally from ICF in August 2005.

    About ADIC

    Advanced Digital Information Corporation (NASDAQ: ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the worlds largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(a) The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-based backup and restore solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers, OEMs and partnerships, including Apple, Cray, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com

    (a) Market Share: Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems
    Market Shares, 2003, F. Yale, April 2004. ADIC, Pathlight,
    StorNext, and Scalar are registered trademarks, and
    Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital
    Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks
    mentioned in this document should be considered the property
    of their respective owners

    About ICF

    ICF is a software company wholly owned by TWI (part of the IMG Group). ICF's products are ICF Media Platform and ICF Netedit. ICF Media Platform is a software product for the ingest, management, production and delivery of digital content. ICF NetEdit is the only solution for Windows Media editing over IP networks. ICF clients include British Telecom, Telecom Italia, MPS Broadband Sweden, Mobix Interactive and TWI. More information can be found at http://www.icf.tv/

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CONTACT: Interactive Content Factory Kim Duncan, +44 208 233 7621 info@icf.tv or Prompt PR Hazel Butters, +44 208 996 1653 / +44 7780 687813 hbutters@prompt-pr.com

KEYWORD: NEVADA TRACK INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELEVISION/RADIO CABLE SOFTWARE TRADESHOW PRODUCT MARKETING AGREEMENTS SOURCE: ADIC

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