Data Management Software

• Highly scalable, AJA Diskover Media Edition efficiently and quickly indexes unstructured data fragmented across multi-platform storage, both on-premises and in the cloud, and makes all of your data searchable and reportable in one global view, accessible via a web-browser.

• Powered by ElasticSearch, AJA Diskover Media Edition’s extraordinary indexing speed allows facilities with massive amounts of data movement the ability to index all of their data multiple times per day.

• AJA Diskover Media Edition provides a global index in a non-proprietary format, enabling organizations to maintain data independence and allow their workforce to avoid time-consuming permissions and access issues.

• Highly secure, AJA Diskover Media Edition provides users with visibility into their data without potentially destructive accessibility.

• Offline media indexer allows facilities to scan, index, search and analyze storage media that spends most of its time offline, maintaining a record of where valuable assets are stored even when they’re completely offline.

• 100% open-source platform allowing for unlimited expansion and plugins integration.

• Harvests valuable MediaInfo metadata from all of your media assets (resolution, framerate, codec, etc) and makes all of those file attributes instantly searchable and reportable.

• Telestream GLIM and Vantage integration.

• Powerful purpose built Plug-Ins from CineSys and Oxagile.

• Workflow automation through configurable scheduled tasks.

• Hash differential plug-in allows for instant verification of critical file transfers, even for remote users.

• Illegal file-name plug-in helps users quickly identify illegal characters in filenames, long filenames or file paths that can disrupt workflows.

• Find and copy file paths to any file you have indexed, regardless of where it is located, from your web browser, no matter where you are.

• Integration with Azure, DropBox, Qumulo and LucidLink cloud platforms.

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Learn more about AJA Diskover Media Edition in this introductory video.

Take a look at the AJA Diskover Media Edition interface with this in depth walkthrough video.

• AJA Diskover Media Edition enables everyone to accurately answer questions with the simplicity of search queries, which provide immediate information.

• The clever views, file search tools, repeatable reports and other smart features assists business users for in-depth analysis of data, informed decision making, as well as rigorous data management.

• AJA Diskover Media Edition allows all stakeholders to have their own relationship with data.

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Users can narrow their searches using the built-in filters. Filters can also be applied to refine existing search results.

The user analysis report gives a snapshot of data utilization per user and per group; it is designed to help with operating costs management, as well as customers’ storage consumption for billing accuracy.

Pushing the limits of search and results accuracy, the AJA Diskover Media Edition harvests media info attributes and makes them easily findable. This feature assists with narrowing down the list of search results and improves their accuracy.

If a file at the source doesn’t include media attributes, those details won’t be harvested and/or searchable.

Media attributes can be searched and a summary viewed in the file results pane.

Oxagile’s IMF Validator Plug-In, exclusively for AJA Diskover Media Edition, allows users to scan and validate IMF packages before delivery - from any location, regardless of the location of the IMF Package data. Commenting on the new Oxagile plug-in, Matt Pinckley, US Director of Business Development at Oxagile, shared, “We are excited to provide this service to AJA Diskover Media Edition customers, as it will help quickly cue more content creators and providers into when their content is ready to share with their distribution partner or client by meeting IMF packaging requirements. We’re confident this will save them both time and money compared to the processes currently required to validate content.”

Through seamless third-party platform access via the Diskover UI - users can preview and validate their media assets instantly, in their favorite web-browser, regardless of where their media assets are stored, with CineSys’ powerful CineViewer application.

AJA Diskover Media Edition users can index, search, analyze, and take action on data stored within Qumulo workspaces. The Qumulo SHIFT platform enables users to trigger data movement using granular metadata, and find and tag data for movement to/from Qumulo on-premises, Qumulo Cloud, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Telestream GLIM is designed to allow media professionals to quickly preview media files in high resolution, with color accuracy via any web browser, without generating a proxy file.  GLIM can generate these previews for files located on-prem or in cloud storage.  Files are shown with SCTE-35 markers, waveform view, and audio metering to ensure compliance standards on the fly, for any user, in any location.

• The Telestream GLIM application can be launched via AJA Diskover Media Edition Interface using File Action > Open in GLIM menu selection.

• GLIM application launches automatically upon selecting “Open in GLIM” menu option (User must have an active GLIM account and be logged in prior to launching the plug-in)

• The file can now be viewed and validated along with its metadata without giving the user destructive access to the source file.

AJA Diskover Media Edition offers Telestream Vantage integration, significantly enhancing workflows for users of both applications.

Telestream Vantage is a powerful platform for transcoding media, generating proxy files, and generating deliverable packages. The AJA Diskover Media Edition Telestream Vantage Plugin allows end-users to submit files for transcoding directly from the AJA Diskover Media Edition user interface. This process can be utilized by all end-users without needing access to the production tools and source files.

• The plugin eliminates many steps from going back and forth between the two applications.

• Vantage offers several transcoding options which can be confusing to non-technical users > the plugin allows for limiting the number of options to only the ones relevant to the end-users.

• Creating a Vantage account for an end-user is intensive as it requires complex and time-consuming configurations > single end-user accounts for Vantage are not required with the plugin as all they need is access to AJA Diskover Media Edition.

• End-users with a Vantage account also means that they have access to your production network > the plugin keeps your network secure as the end-users only have access to read-only information via AJA Diskover Media Edition.

• Files are very easy to find within AJA Diskover Media Edition's global index compared to Vantage where one needs to know where to look.

• The learning curve is quick and easy for new end-users.

Even though several data features will be added over time, AJA Diskover Media Edition will mostly remain a search and read-only tool for the end-users; data integrity and protection being the ultimate objective.

AJA Diskover Media Edition allows all end-users to have access to the data via a global index in a read-only format, for them to make informed decisions, and then in turn for the System Administrators to methodically curate the data in a safe and controlled environment.

AJA Diskover Media Edition also offers broad types of user support, allowing users to search and access content at a level appropriate to their needs and production role:

Executives: Those in a position of overall responsibility that need to be aware of resource drains and the costs associated - this tool will allow them to see actual costs associated and they can then manage their teams to ensure costs are being managed efficiently.

System Administrators: System Administrators have to deal with the management of storage resources, locations, and stress on infrastructure. This tool helps them visibly understand what is happening across a range of platforms.

Operators: Various productions will have a number of teams, internal and external to deal with. Understanding where to direct these teams for their storage needs and actively understanding the costs of those decisions enables them to achieve executives' goals.

Creative teams: Creative artists need to understand where to draw their content from and where to post their content after their work is done. Diskover provides various teams with an understanding of exactly what paths they need to follow on a network - whether local or cloud based.

AJA Diskover Media Edition is covered by a one year warranty, renewable with the annual subscription. AJA Video Systems provide support for all basic installation and set up queries. For more focused issues beyond installation and setup, Diskover will provide direct support. Please see the individual Product’s Manual for additional specifics around warranty conditions for the product itself.