Los Angeles, CA, January, 2012 – Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) has designed and implemented at Burbank’s Visual Data Media Services (VDMS) a new high performance transcoding system and shared storage workflow. Key components in the new VDMS install are a Rhozet Carbon Coder transcode farm from Harmonic, Inc., combined with EMC Isilon’s no compromise scale-out NAS to create a large private cloud for asset management services.

Pictured in Burbank, CA is John Trautman, CEO of Visual Data Media Services.

John Trautman, CEO at VDMS, explained, “With IMT’s guidance, we have launched the backend infrastructure for our new and proprietary asset management system that provides global broadcast file distribution and web publishing of all our clients’ digital assets. With an optimized transcode platform and a large private cloud for storage, it makes managing and moving assets a straightforward and automated process.”

Visual Data Media Services has earned a solid reputation for quality, service and dependability by providing integrated end-to-end post-production solutions for over 15 years. To meet the ever-evolving needs of television, feature film, and new media clients, VDMS focuses on the seamless repurposing and distribution of content for all media outlets, including Domestic Syndication, Network Broadcast, International Distribution, Home Video, Video-On-Demand, the Internet, and Mobile Devices.

As the industry transitions from physical asset inventories and distribution to digital catalogs and deliveries, it is increasingly difficult to manage assets and meet tightened delivery windows. With a multitude of file formats, codec’s, and non-standard delivery platforms to deal with, the traditional methods no longer worked.

“We met with VDMS to determine the best of breed solution that would meet their workflow and performance needs,” explained IMT’s Jason Kranitz. “Rhozet Carbon Coder was the most flexible of the transcoding products and fit their model nicely. For the most comprehensive storage solution, Isilon provided the scalability and flexibility, plus the ultra-performance of their new X200 nodes.”

According to IMT’s Director of Architecture Jose Palencia, “The EMC Isilon system at VDMS accelerates high-concurrent and sequential throughput media applications, speeding access to massive amounts of critical data, dramatically reducing costs and complexity.”

The new Harmonic Rhozet and EMC Isilon X200 installation at VDMS enables clients to manage and distribute their content in a secure online environment. Key features include customizable metadata schemas, file downloads, push files via Aspera, Smartjog and Signiant, full online asset screenings, and unlimited user access for client screenings to assist in licensing content. All major formats and codec’s are supported.

“We realized we had to completely redesign our operation if we wanted to satisfy our clients and continue to grow at our current rapid pace,” remarked VDMS’s John Trautman. “After many meetings with vendors at trade shows and interviewing a number of consulting companies, IMT clearly stood out. They fully understood our complex workflows and gave us the media and storage networking solutions that are working flawlessly. Obviously, we were under a time crunch, but after IMT’s strategy was finalized, we were able to get the entire project turned around in less than 60 days.”

ABOUT VISUAL DATA MEDIA SERVICES, INC.

Visual Data has earned its reputation for outstanding quality, service and dependability by providing integrated end-to-end post-production solutions for over 16 years. Visual Data’s veteran management team, with over 85 years of combined industry knowledge, ensures that customers will be met with a high level of service and efficient turn-around on tight deadlines. Strategically integrated services, all under one roof, allow Visual Data to fulfill complex deliveries and solve difficult problems for clients with ease. Learn more at: http://www.visualdatainc.com

ABOUT INTEGRATED MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (IMT)

IMT is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. IMT addresses three major market sectors: Communications Media & Entertainment (CME), Information Technologies (IT), and Healthcare. Through an active engagement process, IMT consultants and engineers collect, interpret, refine, design, build and maintain technology systems that deliver optimum results for clients.

Minimum Requirements:

• Coding in Apex, especially outbound webservice invocations and handling inbound webservice calls (RESTful webservices) to integrate with external system touch points
• Experience with customizing Partner/Customer Portals
• JavaScript and CSS expertise
• Java development expertise
• Ability to thrive and deliver in a fast-paced, small engineering environment
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a BS in Electrical Engineering

Experience in the following areas is a bonus:

• SFDC developer with experience developing customer VisualForce pages

We offer a competitive compensation package with generous benefits. Please send all resumes and referrals to kate@imtglobalinc.com

In this picture: Nomad's Smoke Bay

Los Angeles, CA, September, 2011 — Integrated Media Technologies Inc. (IMT) has completed a new 120TB SAN storage system and expanded fiber networking for LA’s Nomad Editing Company. The project was designed specifically by IMT to satisfy the considerable needs of a high volume, editorial, sound and graphics services company that caters to major television commercials, advertising and feature films. At the heart of the Nomad installation is Quantum’s StorNext filesystem, ActiveRAID ES Storage and QLogic Fibre Switches serving as a primary tier #1 storage feeding multiple Final Cut Pro on Mac and Autodesk Smoke on Linux workstations.

“IMT works differently than other vendors who just sell products,” explained Scott Carleton, VP at Nomad, whose clients include Pepsi, Visa, TD Bank, Chevy, Nike, Hyundai, Proctor & Gamble, Apple, and Gillette. “IMT talks to you about your workflow, how you need to work today, and how you would like to work in the future. They partner with you from the business side and the workflow side, but they concentrate on the workflow first and engineer a complete system from there. Their team came in and did a thorough evaluation of our needs and came up with a well thought out redesign of our facility.”

“Growth at Nomad has been tremendous,” explained IMT’s EVP of Broadcast Chan Mahon, “and they were facing considerable networking and data storage limitations. Rather than further pushing their existing setup, we suggested an entirely new scalable system that can grow incrementally as Nomad grows. The results were so compelling that they suggested it to one of their key clients who also needed a major upgrade and they opted for a similar system design. Now that Nomad and their key client are on the same platform, there is much greater interoperability between the two for real-time daily activities.”

Scott Carleton added, “The fact that we are using the same systems and talking the same language, means that we can bounce things back and forth between the support teams and the IT staff. We now have two separate teams working on the same projects, but sharing media more efficiently. In a sense it ties us that much closer, because we are not working on separate islands.”

As the leading Quantum StorNext systems integrator for media and entertainment, IMT acts as both a technology and business partner with clients. “We have a strategic relationship with both Quantum’s software and tape hardware business units that allows IMT to provide solutions that are highly optimized for performance,” said Jason Kranitz, VP/Sales at IMT. “The combination of the StorNext Filesystem with Active Storage is an unbeatable solution for big data requirements.”

IMT built and configured the Quantum StorNext SAN that is the central shared storage pool used for all post production HD and SD Workflows at the Nomad editing facility in Santa Monica, CA (additional offices are in New York and London). The foundation of the Nomad SAN is StorNext Metadata Controllers with ActiveRAID ES Storage Systems and Qlogic Fibre Channel Switches. IMT Professional Services were contracted by Nomad to provide workflow consulting, project management, implementation, training, documentation, and ongoing 24/7 support.

About Nomad

NOMAD provides creative editorial, sound and graphics design services for television commercials, Internet advertising and feature films. Recent clients include Pepsi, Visa, TD Bank, Apple, and Gillette. NOMAD has offices in Santa Monica, New York and London. http://nomadedit.com

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

IMT is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. IMT addresses three major market sectors: Communications Media & Entertainment (CME), Information Technologies (IT), and Healthcare. Through an active engagement process, IMT consultants and engineers collect, interpret, refine, design, build and maintain technology systems that deliver optimum results for clients.

IMT is ranked 303 in Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America.

Los Angeles, CA, July, 2011 – Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) has announced new managed services for tablet computers and mobile devices.  IMT’s Mobile Device Managed Services (MDMS) offers IT organizations the ability to increase workforce productivity with comprehensive solutions that meet enterprise business objectives for security, software management, and application development.  These Managed Services are designed to maximize the value of tablet computers and other mobile devices across an enterprise.

IMT’s new Mobile Device Managed Services include:

• Mobile device order procurement and processing
• Wireless service activation
• Configuration of mobile devices with customized profiles
• Security for protection of corporate assets
• Application and data migrations
• Repair and loaner devices
• Help Desk Support with instructions and data recovery

“The mobile device revolution of the post-PC era is real,” said Mike Braico, EVP of Sales at IMT.  ”The number of enterprise tablet deployment requests (500 units or more) IMT has received is promising.  I think companies are finding use cases where tablets and mobile devices are more appropriate and cost effective for their workforce than PCs.  We are seeing the most interest in medical, law enforcement, and sales force automation market segments.  In addition, the number of requests we are receiving for tablet operating system software development is increasing, too. I know this will make many PC veterans uneasy but I can see it happening right before my eyes.”

As an authorized Apple Value Added Reseller, IMT’s new MDMS is prepared to bring mobile devices to a wide variety of industries.  Tablets support Mobile Device Management, giving businesses the ability to manage scaled deployments of mobile devices across organizations.  Integrated Media Technologies gives IT departments the ability to securely enroll tablets in an enterprise environment, then remotely configure and update settings, monitor compliance with corporate policies, and deliver tight control over all managed mobile devices.

Learn more and request a quote.

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. Customers rely on IMT to deliver mission critical solutions and services focused on media technologies, storage, asset management, high performance computing, networking, and 24/7 support.

IMT addresses three major market sectors, Communications Media & Entertainment (CME), Information Technologies (IT), and Healthcare. Through an active engagement process, IMT consultants and engineers collect, interpret, refine, design, build and maintain technology systems that deliver optimum results for clients.  

Los Angeles, CA, June, 2011 – Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) has announced that LAIKA, the studio that produced the Academy Award-nominated Coraline, has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its end-to-end animation and computer graphics (CG) workflow, simplifying big data management to increase artist collaboration and accelerate project completion.

LAIKA's stop-motion film, Coraline

LAIKA and Focus Features, responsible for Coraline, are re-teaming for LAIKA’s next two projects.  The first of the duo, ParaNorman, will be released nationwide in August, 2012. Following the groundbreaking Coraline, ParaNorman, directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, is only the second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D.  In the comedy thriller, a small town comes under siege by zombies and calls on misunderstood local boy Norman, who is able to speak with the dead.

During LAIKA studio’s production and post-production of Coraline, they faced a need to expand quickly and to considerably upgrade their storage capacity. With one facility in Portland, Oregon and another 20 miles away in Hillsboro, and their second much-anticipated animated feature already in pre-production, LAIKA didn’t want to change course and invest in an expanded brick and mortar data center.  Instead, they called on Integrated Media Technologies (IMT) to design and implement two portable 20-foot storage containers to house all of their new data transfer and storage solutions.

As a result, LAIKA has deployed more than a petabyte of EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its end-to-end animation and computer graphics (CG) workflow, simplifying their huge data management to increase artist collaboration and accelerate project completion.

Working with IMT and using Isilon’s SmartPools software application, LAIKA has unified three performance tiers into a single file system, consolidating its compositing, computer graphics and stop motion workflows onto a single, shared storage resource, streamlining production operations and improving IT efficiency.

Jonathan Rozes, LAIKA director of IT

“We need our artists focused on the creative process, not waiting for render jobs to finish or content to migrate, so a single, shared storage resource that can accommodate a range of access patterns and performance requirements is a game-changer for us,” said Jonathan Rozes, director of IT, LAIKA. “Before Isilon, we had to manage our workflows separately, which made management a hassle and limited our productivity. By moving to Isilon, we’ve consolidated our entire production operation on one, simple solution, which not only minimized management, but helped expand our bandwidth for new projects.”

LAIKA features two divisions: LAIKA’s Entertainment division, which produces animated feature films and shorts, including Coraline, and LAIKA/house, the commercial division behind animated campaigns for Frito Lay, M&M’S and Planters. Prior to Isilon, LAIKA’s traditional NAS system segregated its range of workflows across disparate file systems, complicating management, slowing application performance and limiting artist collaboration.

“IMT has an excellent understanding of the feature film industry, and animation in particular, ” explained Rozes.  ”After we evaluated competitive proposals, IMT asked the most intelligent questions and came up with a solution that was the best fit for us.  The fact that they decided to go with Isilon was a reflection of their knowledge of the industry and what our needs were.”

Working with IMT, LAIKA deployed three tiers of Isilon scale-out NAS – the high-performance 5400S for its IOPS-intensive compositing workflow, the 10000X-SSD for metadata-intensive computer graphics applications, and the 12000X for highly concurrent stop motion effects. Using SmartPools, LAIKA has unified these three performance tiers into a single file system, simplifying management to less than one full-time equivalent (FTE) and unifying all of its production operations on a single, shared pool of storage.”

During the production and post-production of Coraline, LAIKA faced a situation where their facilities were both in Portland and 20 miles away in Hillsboro.  With their second animated feature already in pre-production, they didn’t want to change course and invest in an expanded brick and mortar data center. Instead, they called on IMT to design and implement two portable 20-foot storage containers, housing all of their new storage solutions.

“IMT designed our new data centers and helped us through that complex implementation process,” explained Jonathan Rozes.  ”Our most critical asset is the animation and CG artists, and the more iteration they can get in a fixed period of time, the better the film looks and the better it is for the studio.  Having an integrator that grasps high performance, massive data storage and a reliable infrastructure is essential.  IMT understood the sensitivity and pressure of any kind of disruption, and got everything set up quickly and made the transition as seamless as possible.”

Using Isilon’s cost-efficient NL-Series in combination with Isilon’s asynchronous replication application SyncIQ, LAIKA can backup its projects to a secure, highly reliable off-site cluster, ensuring maximum data availability and business continuity in the event of data loss or disaster.

“Efficient artist collaboration is key to great production in today’s media industry and with the influx of big data – created by advanced CG techniques, new media formats and more – leading media companies now have unprecedented opportunities for collaboration and creativity,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon. “By using Isilon scale-out NAS to consolidate its entire production workflow and scale its storage resources in-line with artists’ needs, LAIKA is seizing the big data opportunity and leading the way in a new era of media and entertainment.”

“Coraline is a landmark work of art in the history of animation,” commented Mike Braico, EVP of Integrated Media Technologies.  ”Animation is a passion for us at IMT and working with LAIKA was both a challenge and a dream come true.  We are looking forward to their upcoming feature, which is sure to be as groundbreaking.”

About LAIKA

LAIKA, an independent animation studio, specializes in feature films, commercials, music videos, broadcast series and short films. Owned by Nike Co-founder and Chairman Philip H. Knight, LAIKA draws on a 30-year history of award-winning filmmakers, designers and animators.

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. Customers rely on IMT to deliver mission critical solutions and services focused on media technologies, storage, asset management, high performance computing, networking, and 24/7 support.

IMT addresses three major market sectors, Communications Media & Entertainment (CME), Information Technologies (IT), and Healthcare. Through active engagement, IMT consultants and engineers collect, interpret, refine, design, build and maintain technology systems that deliver optimum results for clients.

From the left: Al Hart (EVP Engineering Modern Videofilm), James Gleason (Media Academy Coordinator), Mike Braico (EVP Sales, Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.), Evelyn Seubert (Media Academy Teacher), Cathee Cohen (Media Academy Founder)

According to Mike Braico, Co-Founder of IMT, “the Media Academy is a shining star in the LAUSD and they need the support of private businesses. Many companies have benefited from the film and television industry in our area and it’s time to give back. They are training the next generation of media and entertainment professionals.”

The school has seen its share of challenges in the midst of LAUSD’s $408 million budget deficit. According to Cohen, “The Media Academy gives students from a disadvantaged Title 1 LAUSD school the opportunity to learn traditional moviemaking, digital, and audio-visual communication skills along with survival skills they’ll need to land jobs in the areas of film, television and Internet content creation.”

The Media Academy is an internationally-known program with students that have gone on to the most prestigious film and media schools around the country. Their films have won over 100 local, national and international awards including a Student Emmy, a United Nations Global Issue Award and first place at the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival for a film which was screened at the Cinerama Dome and hosted by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow and Oscar-nominee Jason Reitman. The Media Academy’s Teen International Media Exchange (TIME) program has taken students to Korea, Scotland and Belize to work on collaborative video projects with foreign students. TIME recently won the 2010 California Teachers Association Peace and Justice Student Activist Award for its work raising money for a computer center in Sierra Leone and activism against child soldiers. The Media Academy was chosen in 2011 to be the pilot program for the Breaking Boundaries Digital Storytelling project, which brings together students from the disabled and able-bodied communities to tell their stories of struggle and triumph.

“This is only the beginning of our fundraising goal of $100,000 and we are grateful to IMT for being the first,” says Seubert. For more information on how to donate, please contact Evelyn Seubert.

Contact
Evelyn Seubert, Instructor
evelyn.seubert@sbcglobal.net
818.512.1337

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.
Integrated Media Technologies Inc. is a leading systems integrator for media entertainment, and information technology. The company delivers products and services that enable clients to achieve their strategic business goals. Through an active engagement with the client, IMT defines the project requirements needed to design the best solution to fulfill the customer’s needs. IMT’s award-winning staff designs, procures, installs, trains, and supports a project from beginning to end and offers ongoing support through its Remote Managed Services, lowering project risk, cost, and assuring maximum uptime. For more information please call 877.761.9770.

Ken Adelson, IMT's Vice President Media & Production Consulting

Los Angeles, CA, May 23, 2011 – Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) has named Ken Adelson as the company’s Vice President Media & Production Consulting.  An Emmy Award-winning sports television leader and innovator, Adelson brings over two decades of broadcasting and digital media experience to his new role with IMT.

“IMT has made an incredible impact on the media and entertainment market with a deep expertise in digital file-based media technologies and their unique approach to seamless integration,” remarked Adelson.  “My background with sports production and broadcasting will help East Coast media and broadcast customers implement next generation technologies using IMT’s unique solutions.“

In his prior position as Senior VP of Production Operations and Planning for NBA Entertainment, Adelson helped launch NBA TV in 1999, the first cable/satellite network created by a sports league.  A pioneer of one of the nation’s first all digital newsrooms, he was at the forefront of the design and development of the NBA’s ground-breaking integrated digital media management and influential in the league’s initial development of 3D Broadcasting.

“Ken comes to IMT with lots of experience in moving existing operations through technology transitions and restructuring,” stated Bruce Lyon, CEO of IMT.  “Ken really knows what it takes to design and deliver next generation media technology systems that drive new levels of production and workflow efficiency in top tier broadcast environments.  That’s what IMT is all about.”

In 2008, Adelson launched the Oklahoma City Thunder’s broadcasting department and digital media operations.  As Senior VP and Executive Producer, he managed the daily operations for the NBA’s newest franchise, overseeing high definition television and radio game broadcasts, and the organization’s digital production facilities.

Before joining NBA Entertainment, Adelson worked for 10 years as a sports anchor, reporter, producer and writer at network television affiliates in Phoenix, AZ, Hartford, CT, Salt Lake City, UT and Wilmington, NC.  He has also worked as a consultant for industry leading sports media organizations and is a sought after speaker for national conferences and advanced media forums.

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. Customers rely on IMT to deliver mission critical solutions and services focused on media technologies, storage, asset management, high performance computing, networking, and 24/7 support.

Scalability and simplicity of storage design has become an essential element in the production of highly technical feature films which incorporate advanced CGI, 3D animation and stereography.

“IMT is an expert in every aspect of media workflow,” said Leonard Iventosch, vice president of channel and OEM, Isilon. “We’ve already collaborated on a number of large installations and in production studio environments, pre or post, IMT’s expertise from software to network to data center infrastructure helps set best practices for the industry.”

With Isilon, IMT can enable visual effects laden film and television productions to take advantage of any location and talent pool in the world, with the highest level of performance for computing, storing, and rendering the industry’s most sophisticated imagery.

“We chose Isilon,” stated IMT CEO Bruce Lyon, “because of their worldwide leadership in scale-out NAS for mission-critical applications with our media customers.”

In addition to installations at a number of major motion picture studios, one particular case study demonstrated how IMT boosted the stereoscopic 3D pipeline throughput by a factor of four for I.E. Effects by deploying Isilon’s IQ6000x storage system at the company’s Culver City location.  Recent I.E. Effects projects include “Gulliver’s Travels,” Michael Jackson’s “This Is It,” and new 3D attractions for the World’s Fair in Shanghai, China.

The workflow at major studios and post production facilities requires varying capacity and performance storage systems. “Isilon is an ideal solution for media workflows,” remarked Mike Braico, IMT Executive VP/Sales, “because its network attached storage (NAS) scale out storage platform enables our customers to easily grow and manage data efficiently.”

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. Customers rely on IMT to deliver mission critical solutions and services focused on media technologies, storage, asset management, high performance computing, networking, and 24/7 support.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out storage. Their scale-out storage platform is a powerful, yet simple way to manage data and applications, enabling enterprises to expect much more from their storage.

IMT at NAB 2011, April 11-14, Las Vegas

IMT will be hosting a number of technology briefings in their hospitality suite on the second floor of the Renaissance Hotel located at 3400 Paradise Road. The hotel is conveniently located across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center. For inquiries please call 877.761.9770.

Chan Mahon, IMT's Executive Vice President of Broadcast Systems

“I bring to IMT firsthand experience from both a producer and facility manager’s perspective, which is essential to the understanding of today’s broadcast and new media solutions,” Mahon emphasizes. “IMT is focused on exactly the advanced work flows our industry’s end users are looking to design and implement to be competitive.”

The son of film director and producer Barry Mahon, Chan Mahon started out with CBS in-house productions in the early 80’s. In the early 90s, after successfully supervising many television and feature film productions, he moved to the new 24-hour cable and broadcast Network One, serving as Executive VP and General Manager.

“Chan comes to IMT with an impressive background in entertainment media and a clear view of today’s complex production, post-production and broadcast requirements,” stated Bruce Lyon, CEO of IMT. “He thoroughly understands the logistics of high-end media and broadcast technologies and works with our clients as a systems designer and integrator with a true insider’s perspective.”

Following stints with CBS, Columbia Pictures Television, Imagine Films and Network One, Mahon founded Programming Services, Inc., which pioneered the use of new digitization technologies in satellite programming. In the new millennium he was president of C3D Digital, best known for its highly regarded stereoscopic tools for the conversion of standard 2D content to stereo-3D.

In 2003, Mahon became president and general manager of TV Pro Gear, which specialized in high-end video systems and integrated solutions. By 2006, he had transitioned the company from exclusively a studio equipment liquidation company to an international systems design and integration company.

Prior to joining Integrated Media Technologies, Mahon was VP of Integrated Services at Key Code Media, winning major contracts and implementations with media companies such as AOL, the CBS/Dr. Phil Show, Endemol Productions, The Conan O’Brien Show, and Trinity Broadcast, to name a few. Mahon quickly established Key Code as a leader among the nation’s most successful competitors.

“When selling technology, we don’t sell components and products, we sell solutions,” Mahon concludes. “You have to do a thorough analysis and figure out the client’s objectives. I have been in their shoes and it is tremendously helpful with high-end clients to fully understand what their business objectives are. If they succeed, we succeed.”

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)
Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. Customers rely on IMT to deliver mission critical solutions and services focused on media technologies, storage, asset management, high performance computing, networking, and 24/7 support.

IMT addresses three major market sectors, Communications Media & Entertainment (CME), Information Technologies (IT), and Healthcare. Through active engagement, IMT consultants and engineers collect, interpret, refine, design, build and maintain technology systems that deliver optimum results for clients.

IMT at NAB 2011, April 11-14, Las Vegas

IMT will be hosting a number of technology briefings in their hospitality suite on the second floor of the Renaissance Hotel located at 3400 Paradise Road. The hotel is conveniently located across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center. For inquiries please call 877.761.9770.

Bill Macatee and Jimmy Conners (center) interviewing Maria Sharapova on the set of Wimbledon Primetime, Tennis Channel’s Wimbledon show.

“Recent growth at our network required an expanded approach to production workflow and storage,” said Dean Hadaegh, senior vice president of broadcast operations and CTO, Tennis Channel.  “We contacted IMT because of their well-known expertise in this field, their engineering talent and support services.  Within a short amount of time they diagnosed our specific needs and came up with an across-the-board strategy that allowed us to re-design our operation without any downtime.”

IMT consulted with Tennis Channel to create and implement a new architecture for tiered storage.  The new system connects all of their edit bays running Apple’s Final Cut Pro to a shared storage environment leveraging the StorNext and XSAN File system with high performance Fibre Channel attached storage.

Bruce Lyon, CEO at IMT remarked,  “As big fans of the Tennis Channel, we are especially pleased to have this strategic relationship. The solution we designed was a perfect example of IMT’s fast growing, end to end Professional Services business, which includes our specialized StorNext and Digital Archive Practices.”

IMT worked closely with Tennis Channel to architect an asset management strategy that leverages Apple’s Final Cut Server with custom workflows built by IMT Professional Services.  Tennis Channel can use Final Cut Server to move their content through their file-based workflow from primary storage off to their multi-petabyte capable digital archives managed by MassTech.  Tennis Channel has an LTO archival data tape library at both their Culver City and Santa Monica locations. Utilizing Masstech, they can now move any content file between facilities.

Rob Kobrin, CTO for IMT explained, “This file-based workflow is an excellent example of IMT’s ability to provide comprehensive consulting, design, vendor selection, sourcing, project management, implementation, training, documentation, and ongoing support services.”

The extensive re-design and installation was done entirely at off-hours during a hectic production schedule.  Careful planning was required between the Tennis Channel technical staff, Production Management, and IMT’s Project Management team to assure a smooth transition to the new system.  IMT is also contracted for 24/7 Remote Managed Services as well as Onsite Support Services for the Tennis Channel.

About the Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel is the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle.  A hybrid of comprehensive sports, health, fitness, pop culture, entertainment, lifestyle and travel programming, the network is home to every aspect of the wide-ranging, worldwide tennis community.  It also has the most concentrated single-sport coverage in television, with telecast rights to the US Open, Wimbledon, Roland Garros (French Open), Australian Open, Olympus US Open Series, ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events, top-tier WTA competitions, Davis Cup and Fed Cup by BNP Paribas, and Hyundai Hopman Cup.  Tennis Channel is carried by nine of the top 10 MSOs, Verizon FiOS TV, AT&T U-verse, DIRECTV and DISH Network.

About Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT)

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) is a consulting, design, construction, and systems integration company providing scalable technology systems for business operations. Customers rely on IMT to deliver mission critical solutions and services focused on media technologies, storage, asset management, high performance computing, networking, and 24/7 support.

IMT at NAB 2011, April 11-14, Las Vegas

IMT will be hosting a number of technology briefings in their hospitality suite on the second floor of the Renaissance Hotel located at 3400 Paradise Road. The hotel is conveniently located across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center. For inquiries please call 877.761.9770.