CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom,
July 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Global Distribution, today announced the acquisition of
assets of Symply, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of
high-performance storage solutions for collaborative workflows.
Symply products offer a unique blend of enterprise-class five nines
reliability storage and industry-leading StorNext® file system,
which support clients running on Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms.
Symply delivers a wide range of easy-to-use storage solutions that
support connectivity over Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and
Thunderbolt. All Symply products are optimized for rich media
applications, collaborative teams, AI use, cloud connectivity, HDR,
high-frame-rate, 4K and higher
resolution projects.
"Our acquisition of Symply Inc., combines the innovative
customer-centric solutions developed by the Symply team with our
longevity and presence as a specialist distributor in the media and
entertainment industry," said Keith
Warburton, CEO at Global Distribution. "We've always worked
very closely with our vendors but acquiring Symply opens up really
exciting new possibilities for us to expand upon Symply's SAN, NAS
and storage product lines and develop comprehensive solutions for
media workflows through unrivaled interoperable technologies."
Global's acquisition of Symply furthers their partnership with
Quantum (NYSE: QTM) to deliver market leading solutions based on
the next-generation StorNext® 6 storage management platform that is
embedded within a wide-range of Symply products.
"We are excited to partner with Global to bring StorNext® 6 to a
far wider base of creative professionals," said Jamie Lerner, CEO and President of Quantum, "The
unique approach of the SymplyULTRA, and Global's vision for
innovative Apple compatible Thunderbolt solutions are a perfect
match with StorNext high-performance file sharing
capabilities."
The Symply sales, engineering and support teams remain in place,
ensuring all Symply customers continue to enjoy the products,
knowledgeable staff, and world-class support they have come to rely
on.
"We are very pleased to see Symply evolving by joining industry
leader Global Distribution. We rely on Symply in our
post-production workflow to deliver the performance and reliability
we need," said Michael Rogalewski,
Director of IT at Big Breakfast Productions. "As the premier
producer of scripted and unscripted comedic television, our team
depends on Symply to support us in meeting our tight
deadlines."
"We are very excited to hear that Symply is becoming part of
Global Distribution and look forward to seeing what they can do
with the resources of a bigger company," said Andres Lapi, CTO at Teledoce. "We've been using
Symply with great success at our facilities in Montevideo, Uruguay for about a year. When it
came time to choose a workflow for operations at the International
Broadcast Centre of the World Cup in Moscow, Russia, we chose Symply again. We
installed a control room and all the storage operations run through
Symply. We've got editors working on the media, journalists
checking material and technicians organizing the huge amounts of
hours of video being generated at the World Cup. Everything is
running smoothly with Symply, and hope our National team joins our
success on the field."
"Global Distribution has built a strong following and is
considered to be the distributor of choice for Value Added
Resellers that focus on system integration, studio and workflow
design. In recent years Global has aggressively expanded to reach
markets around the world including the Los Angeles film, television and advertising
communities. The acquisition of Symply Inc. will allow Global to
offer specific solutions to requirements that are unique to the
M&E community. With offices in Culver
City, Global is strategically located to help our resellers
support and service the needs of media companies in Burbank, Culver
City, and Hollywood," said
Jonathan Ellihou COO Global Distribution NA.
Symply products with embedded StorNext®6 are immediately
available to order from Global Distribution's worldwide resellers
along with seamlessly interoperable options for asset management,
production workflows, and content archive. For more detailed
information on Symply products and services
visit www.gosymply.com or for more information on Global
see www.globaldistribution.com.
About Global Distribution
Global Distribution, head
quartered in the University City of
Cambridge, UK is a specialist distributor for digital
content acquisition, production, storage, management and archival
solutions within the Media and Enterprise industries. With offices
in Culver City, Munich, Stockholm, Global are dedicated to delivering
class-leading products and solutions with support and development
that is second to none. Global work closely with their vendors,
partners and extensive reseller network in North America, EMEA and APAC to meet the
growing needs of these industries. With a clear focus on
understanding the ever-changing requirements in the industry,
Global are excellently placed to provide technology to fulfil the
current and future demands of users.
Twitter:
@GlobalDist_News
@GoSymply
About Quantum
Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out
tiered storage, archive and data protection. The company's StorNext
platform powers modern high-performance workflows, enabling
seamless, real-time collaboration and keeping content readily
accessible for future use and re-monetization. More than 100,000
customers have trusted Quantum to address their most demanding
content workflow needs, including large government agencies,
broadcasters, research institutions and commercial enterprises.
With Quantum, customers have the end-to-end storage platform they
need to manage assets from ingest through finishing and into
delivery and long-term preservation. See how
at www.quantum.com/customerstories.
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