ADIC And North Plains Systems Debut Integrated Digital Asset Management Solution At AIIM.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. 2000 REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2000 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) and North Plains Systems Corp. announced today an agreement to complete integration and compatibility testing Compatibility testing, part of software non-functional tests, is testing conducted on the application to evaluate the application's compatibility with the computing environment. of the ADIC AMASS (Archive Management And Storage System) Tape management software for Unix from Quantum Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (www.quantum.com). Originally developed by ADIC, AMASS makes the tape library look like an infinite disk drive to the application. (R) archive management software and the North Plains TeleScope(TM) digital asset management (DAM) system. Demonstrations featuring the combination will be shown next week at the at the AIIM 2000 Exposition in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (booth 1213). TeleScope efficiently tracks, manages and retrieves multimedia digital files and significantly reduces production costs by allowing people to do their jobs instead of searching for files. Its flexibility allows it to be easily integrated into existing workflow systems to quickly improve performance and efficiency. AMASS is an advanced archiving software that allows users throughout a network to automatically access data stored in automated storage libraries by using a simple file-system interface. AMASS presents data in automated storage libraries, including both optical and tape media, as a single mount point, making it appear as a single large magnetic disk. The integration of AMASS and TeleScope will dramatically increase the useable capacity of tape and optical libraries while at the same time significantly reducing the cost of DAM storage for a wide variety of data-intensive applications. "North Plains offers a simple and intuitive user interface that allows highly effective management of a wide variety of graphics, video, audio and other media files," said Dave Uvelli, executive director of software at ADIC. "When coupled with AMASS and ADIC automated libraries, this combined solution provides high capacity, very low per-megabyte storage costs, and easy management of digital asset archive." "Integration of TeleScope with the AMASS file system offers a seamless solution to our customers. The two products form a natural combination which extends the capacity range of digital asset management while retaining unprecedented flexibility and ease of use," said Hassan Kotob, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of North Plains. "This solution has already proven it can manage digital asset pools of more than 200 TB, it will now become a practical tool for a complete range of DAM projects." About North Plains Systems www.northplains.com North Plains Systems Corp. is a prominent provider of global media and content management solutions. At the workgroup and enterprise levels, North Plains' leading edge software technology manages all forms of digital media including images, audio & video files, text documents, web files and more. Together with its partners worldwide, North Plains provides fully integrated and scalable Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions and a complete range of services including needs assessment, workflow design, implementation services, training, custom development and post-sale support. North Plains' clients include Sony Music, The Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace. Mayo Clinic voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723] See : Medicine , Quebecor and The West Group. About ADIC www.adic.com With more than 55,000 automated tape libraries installed and a suite of innovative software solutions and Storage Area Networking (SAN) products, ADIC is a leading global provider in the growing market to manage and protect information for computer networks. Marketed under ADIC and ADIC/GRAU brands and the brands of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Inc. (USA), Milpitas, CA, www.fujitsu-siemens.com) Fujitsu Siemens Computers USA is a wholly owned research and development subsidiary of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Exabyte and Unisys, the Company's automated tape libraries are available with DLTtape, AIT, D2, half-inch, and 4mm tape technologies, and are supported by leading backup and storage management software products for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and mainframe operating systems. The Company's own storage management tools include AMASS(R) and CentraVision(TM)software products which provide users with shared access to network data. A pioneer in Storage Area Networks, ADIC'Open SAN solutions combine open-system SAN hardware and software with installation services and single-call support. ADIC, AMASS, CentraVision, and Scalar are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. TeleScope is a trademark of North Plains Systems Corp. All other product and service marks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners. |
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