EditShare, a technology leader in intelligent shared storage and media management solutions, announced that 24-hour news broadcaster, News Media, has upgraded its Moscow-based LIFE and the recently acquired St. Petersburgh-based LIFE78 news station infrastructures with XStream EFS high-availability, distributed shared storage; integrated Flow production asset management (PAM); and Ark Disk archiving solutions. The major revamp also includes EditShare Geevs, which manages HD-SDI ingest and multi-channel playout for both stations.

Masstech and Snell Advanced Media (SAM) today announced that the two industry innovators have formed a powerful partnership to speed and simplify how television and multi-platform video newsrooms manage and move content between production, archive and distribution processes. Debuting at the upcoming 2017 NAB Show, tight integration between the SAM VIBE News Solution and Masstech's award-winning media management and archiving software empowers SAM users with the ability to easily and efficiently archive, locate, retrieve and share news content between sites. 

Masstech -- the trusted provider of innovative workflow and media asset management solutions -- will launch a powerful new disaster recovery (DR) solution for playout environments at the upcoming 2017 NAB Show. Designed to address the growing risks and consequences faced by today's broadcasters and media organizations, Masstech's easy and cost-effective DR platform helps customers protect their revenues, minimize channel downtime and maximize long-term viewer retention if primary playout operations are disrupted.