For Immediate Release

 

Starin partners with EditShare to deliver shared storage and media management solutions for the media and entertainment industry

Chesterton, IN - October 17, 2023. Starin, a value-add distributor of broadcast and pro AV products, is pleased to announce a distribution relationship with EditShare, a leading provider of network shared storage and media management solutions that power smart workflows for the media and entertainment industry. This partnership enables Starin to offer EditShare’s full technology portfolio, including on-premise, hybrid, and cloud configurations, across all markets and market tiers in North America.

“EditShare’s EFS shared storage, FLOW media management, and FLEX cloud solutions provide a high-performance, highly collaborative solution to a broad range of verticals, including Higher Education, House of Worship, and Sports, all areas where Starin and its channel partners have proven expertise,” comments Rich D’Angelo, Executive Director of Business Management - Broadcast, Starin. “Engineered specifically for media production, EditShare gives our channel partners a platform for designing end-to-end workflows to fulfill a broad range of requirements.”

“Starin is the perfect partner to bolster EditShare’s expansion among system integrators and value-add resellers,” says Mike Wright, Vice President of Sales - Americas, EditShare. "This development is especially thrilling after our recent merger with Shift Media, which brings the well-known brands of MediaSilo, Wiredrive and Screeners.com into the EditShare portfolio. With Starin we share a passion for understanding the opportunities and challenges facing our customers. Together, we will work to simplify the process of storytelling with solutions that enable collaboration and improve the production process.”

The EditShare product family includes:
● EFS: a powerful, distributed scale-out storage platform developed for the most intensive media workflows. It's designed from the ground up to support resilient, large-scale workgroups requiring high-bandwidth, high-volume media ingest, transcoding, online collaborative editing and multiplatform distribution of HD, 2K, 4K, and beyond.

● FLOW: provides a powerful production media asset management platform for creative control of all files during the production process including 4K and remote editorial workflows. FLOW will tag, organize, and manage media, improving efficiency and multiplying productivity.

● MediaSilo: cloud-native light asset management and video collaboration HQ. MediaSilo acts as the collaboration conduit between video creatives and non-creatives throughout the production pipeline. Videos, stills, pdfs and other documents can be uploaded, tagged, shared and reviewed by key internal and external stakeholders.

About Starin
Headquartered in Chesterton, Indiana, Starin, a Midwich Group company, which serves the US market, is a value-add distributor of pro AV products. Starin has a strong focus in Unified Communication, Education and Broadcast markets, with a brand portfolio including BirdDog, PTZ Optics, Shure, LG, Crestron, Logitech, DTEN, Neat, Barco, SMART and more.

About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader that enables collaborative media workflows on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration. With customer and partner success at the heart of EditShare’s core values, our open software solutions and robust APIs improve workflow collaboration and third-party integrations across the entire production chain, ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none. The high-performance software lineup includes media optimized shared storage management, archiving and backup, and media management, all supported with open APIs for extensible integration.

EditShare’s cloud-enabled remote editing and project management technology was recently recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) with a prestigious 2021 Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering.

For more information about EditShare, or to become an EditShare channel partner, please visit https://starin.biz/g/editshare

Press Contact: Brendan Crise, CTS [email protected]