Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM) is the leading global storage company specializing in backup, recovery and archive. Combining focused expertise, customer-driven innovation, and platform independence, Quantum provides a comprehensive, integrated range of disk, tape, and software solutions supported by a world-class sales and service organization. As a long-standing and trusted partner, the company works closely with a broad network of resellers, OEMs and other suppliers to meet customers’ evolving data protection needs.

Breece Hill manufactures innovative and cost-effective information storage and retrieval solutions, including the ISTORA 4000 D2D2T storage appliance family, Integrity Storage Management Software, tape autoloaders and libraries, and MaxOptix Magneto-Optical (MO) drives and media. The Breece Hill tape automation line, continuously marketed and supported since 1993, spans from entry-level autoloaders to mid-range libraries, with more than 25,000 units shipped worldwide. Breece Hill’s Information Storage and Retrieval Architecture (iStoRA), introduced in 2003, is a disk-to-disk-to-removable storage platform.

The companies will combine Front Porch’s market-leading DIVArchive archive management application with Breece Hill’s iStoRA 4000 hardware platform. The new "Archive in a Box" storage solution is ideally positioned to meet the start-up digital archive needs of small to medium broadcast facilities.

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Jon Cheney
Breece Hill’s United Kingdom Sales Director

"We have been careful to select a partner that exhibits the same concern and compassion for their customers as we do at Breece Hill. DIVArchive is an excellent complement to the Breece Hill iStoRA 4000 appliance, and Front Porch Digital is known for its excellent product quality and customer support services. We believe our integrated solution is very compelling for first time buyers of entry level digital archive projects."

IBM is recognized around the world for its best-of-breed technology and systems integration capabilities, and they have a global focus on the Digital Media space.

Front Porch has become an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and we've proven that our integrated solution can provide broad interoperability and maximum performance within the broadcast workflow. DIVArchive and BitScream are both running on IBM platforms within three North American broadcast operations, and Front Porch is working closely with IBM in their Bethesda, Maryland Media and Development Lab.

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Warren Hart
Vice President, Worldwide Sales, IBM Digital Media Solutions

"IBM is on a mission to help customers lower costs, improve efficiencies and shorten cycle times, and we deliver this value on open standards-based hardware and software. In our efforts to support the global media and entertainment industry, we seek to partner with industry leaders who share our vision.

In the realm of archive management and transcoding software, Front Porch Digital is a perfect fit.

Front Porch and IBM are already delivering this value in the marketplace today with three joint installations in North America, and we're enhancing our capabilities through deeper integration and optimization efforts in the IBM Broadcast Integration Center in Bethesda , Maryland . Our intention is to build on our current success with Front Porch, and we will be working closely together to pursue new opportunities around the world."

Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content, enabling enterprises to transform data into information - and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combine Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing it.

World-class companies in the areas of media and entertainment, Internet services, cable and telecommunications, oil and gas, life sciences, manufacturing and government are using Isilon's products to streamline their workflows, increase productivity and significantly improve their bottom lines. Visit Isilon on the web at www.isilon.com.

Nexsan Technologies is the worldwide leader in innovative and secure storage solutions. Nexsan develops and markets secure storage appliances and modular, high capacity disk storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, compliance and litigation support, primary storage, disk-based backup, digital video security, medical imaging, and rich media. With a complete line of storage systems that offer the ultimate in price/performance, Nexsan is the choice of Fortune Global 500 companies, major governmental agencies, and leading universities worldwide. Nexsan is the pioneer of secure storage and leads the industry with a comprehensive secure storage architecture that delivers a broad array of best-of-breed intelligent storage features including file-level encryption, Content Addressed Storage (CAS) including de-duping functions, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), integrity checking, authentication, multi-media archiving and backup while maximizing storage efficiency through true single-instance storage. Visit Nexsan on the web at www.nexsan.com.

Spectra Logic is pleased to announce partnership with DIVArchive in broadcast opportunities worldwide. This partnership will further ensure that Spectra Logic digital archives provide broadcast application interoperability with leading media asset management solutions. In conjunction with strategic partners such as Front Porch Digital, Spectra Logic's digital archives provide near-line storage, archiving and asset management for broadcast workflow solutions.

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Nicholas Harper
Vice President of Business Development

"Front Porch's DIVArchive solution represents an outstanding management tool for digital media assets, and it represents an important new application for Spectra Logic's line of digital archives. With more than 75 installations worldwide, DIVArchive is well established with global media brands. We believe this agreement positions both companies for greater success."

In numerous high-profile worldwide installations, Front Porch Digital supplies the transcode and storage and archive management software solution for StorageTek's massive hardware-based storage systems and installations. BitScream and DIVArchive is StorageTek's preferred choice for such functionality. StorageTek delivers a broad range of storage solutions for digitized data, incorporating tape automation, disk subsystems and storage networking.

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Jorge Rivera
Professional Services Sales

"We include Front Porch Digital products in our Broadcast solutions because they are superior to the competition and they are the market leaders in archive management software. StorageTek has done more than 30 worldwide broadcast installations with Front Porch, and our bundled archive management solutions are proven in the most demanding operations. TV Azteca was amazed when they realized the operational efficiencies DIVArchive produces."

In response to the explosion of digital content produced, shared, and distributed around the world, Open Text Corporation established the Artesia Digital Media Group to provide organizations with sophisticated support for the production, management, collaboration, and distribution of all types of rich media content. Open Text looked to Artesia Technologies, its 2004 acquisition to spearhead and serve as the foundation for this group. Artesia brings a depth of experience and a history as the preeminent provider of digital asset management solutions serving many of the world's largest and most notable companies, Visit Artesia Digital Media Group on the web at www.artesia.com.

Blue Order AG is one of Europe's leading providers of enterprise media management solutions. Blue Order's solutions are used by broadcasters, corporations and public authorities to collect, index, catalog, retrieve and distribute audiovisual media assets. Front Porch Digital's products and Blue Order's Media Asset Management application have been tightly integrated to provide Broadcasters with a complete content management solution that combines archiving, transcoding and comprehensive asset management.

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Ulf Genzel
Chief Sales Officer

"Blue Order's partnership with Front Porch Digital reflects our commitment to offer our customers best of breed content management solutions. Front Porch Digital has a leading reputation for archive management solutions and we believe that working together we can offer to the Broadcast community a more robust global end to end solution from cataloging, indexing, archiving, editing, browsing to distribution. In fact, our two companies have already begun to deploy integrated content management solutions for a number of broadcast installations in Europe and Middle East."

Dalet Digital Media Systems: From content acquisition to production to scheduling to broadcast, Dalet offers an integrated set of easy-to-use tools that simplify and enhance the process of getting to air. Producers and journalists become more productive with tools that allow them to easily search, assemble, and produce text, audio, and visual content at their desktops. Operating worldwide, Dalet solutions are used in over 60 countries by 1,700 customers.

Dalet Digital Media Systems and Front Porch Digital announce the integration of DaletPlus and DIVArchive (Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive). The resulting solution combines the flexibility, workflow and distribution features of DaletPlus Media Library with the powerful and seamless media management functionalities of DIVArchive.

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David Anselem
Vice President

"Broadcasters can now combine their DaletPlus Media Library systems with DIVArchive back-office storage virtualization technology. This really makes it easy for media organizations to deploy highly scalable, cost-efficient digital media libraries running over standard IT hardware."

EVS Broadcast Equipment is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and play out of sport, news and TV programs in live and near-live and studio production. Their innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionized live broadcasting and their technology is now widely used in nonlinear editing and High Definition Television across the television broadcast market worldwide.

EVS Broadcast Equipment gives broadcasters the tools to create the most instant, exciting and high quality programmes available today - programmes that result in record viewings.

The EVS unique production server, XT[2], combines a full range of world-class applications and has become one of the most popular systems in broadcasting and live production today. EVS’ instant tapeless solutions enable OB trucks, studios, broadcast networks and content producers to embrace technologies such as HD television and new media (IPTV and Mobile TV) using as smooth, upgradeable approach.

EVS solutions are used by more than 4000 operators all over the world and offer a multitude of applications including:

• Quick and simple editing
• Slow motion and video effects packages
• Comprehensive content management
• Clip and playlist creation, browsing and playout

The company sells their branded products in more than 70 countries and is capable of providing service in any region. The company has offices in Belgium, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the United States.

Pierre L’Hoest
CEO of EVS

Like our range of live, near live and studio production systems, Front Porch Digital content storage management solutions have been recognized for their unique reliability, quality and flexibility. We are pleased to collaborate on joint product implementation, highly beneficial for the broadcast market, representing leading technologies.

Harris: Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive and BitScream solutions have been tightly integrated into Harris' Invenio product, an enterprise-wide digital media asset management solution, and Louth automation system. With this combined technology, broadcasters can implement a complete content management solution that combines archiving, transcoding and comprehensive asset management. The combined solution is currently deployed at Rainbow Networks with additional implementations scheduled for the coming year.

Konan Digital is a leading provider of dedicated and focused Media Asset Management (MAM) technologies in the world today. Our products represent the next generation of MAM technologies and are designed to be lightweight, platform agnostic and standards based. KONAN DigitalArc is comprised of a series of interoperable components that seamlessly integrate to form a fully file-based enterprise environment or independent components open to integration into existing systems. Konan has distinguished itself as a thought leader in the digital media sector and proudly holds numerous technology patents including an MPEG-7 International Standard. The company's headquarter, Konan Technology Inc., is based in Seoul, Korea and the US subsidiary, Konan Digital Inc., was launched in California early 2005.

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Jakap Koo
Chief Operating Officer

"Front Porch Digital is the dominant player for video storage and archive management and was the best choice to integrate with our digital asset management solutions at SBS. We are excited to demonstrate our top performing digital solutions and key technologies together with Front Porch to show the ultimate news production environment."

Netia is a leading provider of software solutions for managing and broadcasting television and radio content. The company offers three ranges of audio ( Radio-AssistTM) and video ( ManreoTM and Media LoggingTM) products designed to allow content holders to manage all of their processes--from capture to multichannel broadcasting--over terrestrial channels, the Internet, mobile devices, and other channels. Visit Netia on the web at www.netia.net.

The Cologne based company S4M - Solutions for Media, a subsidiary of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized on the broadcast- and newmedia industry. Today, S4M systems are used in 30 countries around the world. Whether commercial air time sales or video content management; whether program planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation or production planning: S4M has got the solution. Furthermore, the S4M portfolio includes professional consulting services to pass along combined knowledge of media and IT to customers. Visit S4M on the web at www.s4m.com.

Front Porch has been working globally with Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions for more than a year, as the two industry leaders have delivered integrated solutions for large broadcast and cable operators in the U.S., Europe and Australia. These installations are complex, dynamic operating environments, and our teams have been working closely from design and staging through installation and support. Our integrated solutions have been tested and proven in the market, which translates to value and eliminates risk for our customers worldwide.

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Larry Mast
Director, Systems Management Group

"Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions is uniquely positioned to deliver true turnkey solutions to broadcasters and media companies worldwide, and that includes integration and delivery of best of breed technology from select industry leaders. These partners must meet very high standards for functionality, performance and service, and add real value to the solution we're providing to our customers.

Front Porch's DIVArchive and BitScream applications have proven their value in the global media marketplace. We recognize the competitive advantages of Front Porch products, and will continue to introduce this market leading technology to our customers in the U.S. and around the world."

Front Porch Digital has released products that are compatible with Avid Unity as well as various Avid non-linear editing products. Front Porch is currently working to complete installations at CHUM-TV in Toronto, Canada, Cognac-Jay Image in Paris, France, TV Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico, as well as another major broadcast installation in Germany. The work connected with these new business wins delivers important functionality to current and future customers, including:

• Bi-directional transcoding between Avid AirSPACE and Material Exchange Format (MXF) with DV25
• Transcoding and transferring GXF (DV25) into Avid Unity through Avid Unity TransferManager
• OMF (MJPEG) input/output for BitScream Transcoder
• DIVArchive support for Avid API to archive and restore complete compositions to/from Avid Unity through Avid Unity TransferManager
• Transcoding and transferring MXF (DV25) into Avid Unity through Avid Unity TransferManager
• New Non-Linear Editor Plug-In from Front Porch allowing drag-and-drop archiving and restoring between a workstation and external storage managed by DIVArchive

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Adam Taylor
Vice President of Avid Americas Sales, Operations and Customer Service

"A critical piece of our corporate strategy is being open to third party tools and relationships, and we are happy to license our APIs to companies like Front Porch Digital to help create an integrated workflow. Front Porch has shown their commitment to the Avid community with their launch of Avid compatible products."

Harris: Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive and BitScream solutions have been tightly integrated into Harris' Invenio product, an enterprise-wide digital media asset management solution, and Louth automation system. With this combined technology, broadcasters can implement a complete content management solution that combines archiving, transcoding and comprehensive asset management. The combined solution is currently deployed at Rainbow Networks with additional implementations scheduled for the coming year.

Omneon's products are designed specifically as a video server infrastructure for companies that produce and distribute audio and video content for television and the Internet. The Omneon Media Server system offers a cost-effective and scaleable solution for television compromising network interfaces, disk-based storage subsystems, and system software.

DIVArchive integrates with Omneon video server systems to provide an integrated end-to end solution for broadcasters to access and playout their digital assets.

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Geoff Steadman
Vice President, Marketing

"Omneon Video Networks and Front Porch Digital work together closely to ensure that our mutual customers benefit from the highest levels of product integration. To date, we have several successful joint deployments of our products, proving to broadcast customers that their content management requirements can be best served with an integrated Omneon and Front Porch solution."

Quantel has been at the forefront of the use of digital technology as a creative tool for the last 30 years and it is now using its vast experience to create tools for the new digital age - covering everything from terrestrial and multi-channel television, to broadband internet, DVD and d-cinema.

Quantel’s generationQ is a radical, all-encompassing, new concept that offers total scalability in both hardware and software across post production, graphics and broadcast for multiple resolution, team-working production environments. With its sQ server technology, the company produces the world's most popular server-based newsroom systems; its iQ machine is responsible for more digital intermediate work, in more suites, in more countries than any other system; and with eQ it is leading the global transition towards HD production workflows.

Quantel is headquartered in Newbury, UK and has offices in the USA, mainland Europe, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea and Australia. Visit Quantel on the web at www.quantel.com.

SeaChange is a supplier of MPEG-2 digital video server systems based on scalable distributed software architecture and standard computing components, allowing television operators to automate the distribution and management of advertising, movies, and other programming.

DIVArchive integrates with SeaChange video server and media library systems to provide an integrated end-to end solution for broadcasters to access and playout their digital assets.

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Greg Carter
Director of Broadcast Products

"Broadcast MediaLibrary provides universal, failsafe asset storage and management for ingest and playback sources, editors, archives, VTRs and other devices. Front Porch Digital supports our mission to enable media access with its best-of-breed Storage Management and Transcoding products. FPDI's enterprise class middleware allows this storage resource to benefit multiple applications irrespective of the format."

Sony Electronics has certified its SAIT-based PetaSite ® tape storage systems with Front Porch Digital's Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive (DIVArchive) software, fusing storage performance and manageability for broadcast and media companies. The combination of the Sony SAIT PetaSite system and DIVArchive software produce a robust digital archive solution that newsrooms, centralized broadcast operations, television stations, sports broadcasters and digital media companies can confidently rely on for managing and backing up their volumes of video and other data.

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Steve Baker
VP of Storage Solutions for Sony Electronics' Broadcast and Business Solutions Company

"DIVArchive is tailor-made for large and dynamically growing broadcast archives, which is also the sweet-spot for our SAIT-based PetaSite systems . Our integration with DIVArchive allows us to offer additional functionality and value with our PetaSite tape storage systems to provide broadcast and media companies with storage performance and manageability in one combined solution."

Front Porch has been working globally with Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions for more than a year, as the two industry leaders have delivered integrated solutions for large broadcast and cable operators in the U.S., Europe and Australia. These installations are complex, dynamic operating environments, and our teams have been working closely from design and staging through installation and support. Our integrated solutions have been tested and proven in the market, which translates to value and eliminates risk for our customers worldwide.

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Larry Mast
Director, Systems Management Group

"Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions is uniquely positioned to deliver true turnkey solutions to broadcasters and media companies worldwide, and that includes integration and delivery of best of breed technology from select industry leaders. These partners must meet very high standards for functionality, performance and service, and add real value to the solution we're providing to our customers.

Front Porch's DIVArchive and BitScream applications have proven their value in the global media marketplace. We recognize the competitive advantages of Front Porch products, and will continue to introduce this market leading technology to our customers in the U.S. and around the world."

AVECO, based in Prague, Czech Republic, was founded in 1992 by a group of engineers who worked in the former TV and Broadcast Research Institute. The institute was an important developer and manufacturer of TV equipment within Central and Eastern Europe. The core who formed AVECO developed software control systems for equipment designed and manufactured by the Institute. Because of this experience AVECO started with a thorough understanding of TV technology. Visit Aveco on the web at www.aveco.com.

Harris: Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive and BitScream solutions have been tightly integrated into Harris' Invenio product, an enterprise-wide digital media asset management solution, and Louth automation system. With this combined technology, broadcasters can implement a complete content management solution that combines archiving, transcoding and comprehensive asset management. The combined solution is currently deployed at Rainbow Networks with additional implementations scheduled for the coming year.

Integrated Broadcast Information Systems Ltd. And IBIS Inc. (in the Americas) are the experts in providing media-management solutions for broadcasters. From sports and newsroom ingest, playout, and archive systems in HD and SD, through central casting and station automation to channel management and traffic solutions, IBIS draws on 15 years of industry knowledge and experience.. IBIS has always recognized that an effective broadcast solution needs so much more. They provide dependable, cost effective, user-friendly systems based on proven technology, giving you all the tools you need to manage and run your broadcast business. Linking and managing acquisition, scheduling, transmission, billing and archiving is a complex challenge. So their systems operate on Dynamic interface IT standards to give you clever modular solutions that integrate workflow throughout your business. Integrated Broadcast Information Systems Ltd. and IBIS Inc. (in the Americas)

With straightforward 'off the shelf' solutions that can be configured to your needs, IBIS gives you a leading edge - just tell us how sharp you want it. Visit IBIS on the web at www.ibistv.com.

Mike Shaw
Managing Director

"IBIS is extremely happy to be working with Front Porch on various archive projects. The work carried out together for ITN demonstrated the depth of understanding between both companies’ development teams. That project was delivered on time and on budget – made possible by mutual respect and a determination to provide the customer with what they need. We look forward to building on this solid working relationship."

IMC Technologies Inc. is a Swiss company based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva Switzerland. IMC develops software specializing in the creation of video/audio production applications for broadcast and post production. They are a front-runner in bridging the traditional world of analog video broadcasting with modern concepts of computer-based, multimedia technology. IMC Technologies offers broadcasters a total solution that is modular, and thereby easily expandable. It provides open architecture with other Windows-based applications, and is transparent with future technologies, especially those technologies that focus on media acquisition, metadata transparency and 3rd party integration. Visit IMC Technologies on the web at www.incite-tech.com.

Omnibus and Front Porch Digital have successfully partnered to bid, install and operate seven joint installations worldwide. The shared client list includes Antena 3, BBC Broadcast, Cognacq-Jay Image, MTV Networks Europe, NOB and TVI.. The new Discovery Channel US installation was just added to this list.

The partnership between Omnibus and Front Porch Digital is based on tight API level integration that allows seamless transfer of extensive data/command sets and robust control of DIVArchive through Omnibus for true interoperability and a single point of functional interface.

Recently, this integration was extended to include Avid Unity and DIVArchive optimizing the workflow and reducing the overall process of editing: Omnibus automation generates an AAFcomposition (list of excerpts to be edited) from which restore or partial restore requests are automatically passed to DIVArchive for transfer from an archive to Avid Unity.

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