Lagardère Active, the broadcasting division of leading French media group Lagardère, has installed Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive system (Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive) as part of a major makeover of its audiovisual archive facilities. Lagardère Active is the leading French producer of prime-time drama and comedy, operating 11 special-interest television channels and 16 production companies, and is also a creator of interactive content.

Lagardère Active began a phased migration from its previous archiving system in May 2005, replacing it with a DIVArchive system and integrating it with a Sony automation system and video server with 100 TB of storage on a Sun StorageTek library at the broadcaster’s Paris facility. In the most recent phase, Lagardère extended functionality of its archive system with the addition of a disaster recovery facility, based upon Front Porch Digital’s DIVAnet solution, that came into service in February 2007.