SDVI closes investment round with Fox, Discovery & Turner

SDVI Corporation has closed a strategic investment round with the Fox Networks Group, Discovery Communications and Turner. The SDVI platform provides dynamic management of the technical supply chain, enabling media companies to improve the agility and efficiency of their media infrastructures.

The technical, business and legal teams for each strategic investor were led respectively by Fox Networks Group Executive Vice President & General Manager Richard Friedel, Discovery Communications Chief Technology Officer John Honeycutt, and Turner Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Legg. Executives from Fox, Discovery and Turner will join the SDVI Board of Directors.

SDVI Rally is a media supply chain management platform, previewed at NAB, that provides SaaS-based, dynamic management of applications and compute, storage and networking resources. SDVI Rally optimises the infrastructure of a media facility using analytics to characterise the applications and resources to be applied to each workflow. Provisioning is based on availability, budget and commercial propriety versus all other active workflows. The applications and resources managed by SDVI are public or provide cloud-based, or on premises.