ADIC Software to Provide Digital Content Management and Distribution with HP; First Customer is Yahoo! JAPAN.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), leading supplier of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open systems market, announced today that it has signed a joint marketing agreement with HP around media storage solutions designed for the rich media content distribution market. Yahoo! JAPAN Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社 , which operates Japan's most frequently accessed website, has just completed an installation of the new system to optimize optimize - optimisation that company's streaming content management and distribution. Under the agreement, ADIC and HP will explore sales and marketing initiatives centering on the HP Media Storage Solution, which provides superior resource utilization and streamlined data management to organizations that broadcast rich media and streaming Web content. The Media Storage Solution is a new offering that integrates HP servers and storage with ADIC's StorNext Management Suite data management software to provide a high-performance, file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. architecture for storage area networks (SANs). The Yahoo! JAPAN installation is used to simplify the management of streamed content. Instead of storing a copy of each rich media file on each of the site's many distribution servers--the traditional way of managing this kind of content--the new system uses a SAN to give all distribution servers common high-speed access to the same content. The solution couples high performance with greater efficiency, and it simplifies management by providing faster content updating. "We are pleased to formalize our already strong cooperative working relationship with HP and to extend this important technology to an expanding customer base," said Bill Yaman, ADIC Vice President, Software. "HP is providing both technology leadership for this rapidly growing market and the overall systems expertise to create and support scalable, standards-based, high performance solutions for rich media distribution. This solution integrates HP servers, storage, and appliance technology with ADIC data management software to give users a better solution -- one that creates many high performance data streams from a single, easily managed pool of common files." "The success at Yahoo! JAPAN demonstrates how HP and ADIC can cooperate to deliver real business value for the customer. With simplified management of streamed content, Yahoo! Japan is more efficient, more agile, and better able to adapt its rich media assets to market need," said Gabriele DiPiazza, Worldwide Director, Rich Media Solutions, HP Network and Services Provider Business Unit. "ADIC's StorNext File System  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . provides a foundation that allows this type of environment to easily mix Windows, 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 Linux hosts. The integrated StorNext Storage Manager lets customers manage data location on different media types to meet Quality of Service needs." Designed for data-intensive SAN environments, StorNext(R) Management Suite (SNMS SNMS Secondary Neutral Mass Spectrometry SNMS Subnetwork Management System (Lucent) SNMS Simple Network Management System SNMS Servo-Null Micropipette System SNMS SONET Network Management System (Hekimian) ) reduces the time and total cost of managing SAN data. SNMS integrates two powerful components, StorNext File System and StorNext Storage Manager, to provide Total Data Life Management. With SNMS, data -- throughout its lifetime -- is always accessible and protected based on levels of service defined by users. The result is a scalable, high-performance data management solution that optimizes the use of SAN storage while ensuring the long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. safety and recoverability of data. SNMS supports Linux, Windows, and UNIX platforms. More information about the Media Storage Solution can be found at the following link: http://www.adic.com/us/collateral/HP_Media_Storage_Solution_brief.pdf About ADIC Software ADIC data management software provides enterprise-scale access and protection for critical digital assets throughout their lifetime, automatically managing data on different platforms, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and media types to give users the maximum performance and utilization from their storage resource investment. ADIC data management software is used in more than 1000 organizations worldwide to manage some of the industry's largest and most challenging open systems data storage environments. About ADIC(R) Advanced Digital Information Corporation (NASDAQ:ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage Solutions(TM) to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(a) The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-to-tape data protection solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Cray (Cray, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.cray.com) A supercomputer manufacturer founded in 1972 as Cray Research, Inc., by Seymour Cray, a leading designer of large-scale computers at Control Data. In 1976, it shipped its first computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. , Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, 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) and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. (a) ADIC and StorNext are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks used in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners. Market share from: IDC 2001 worldwide revenue and unit market share data for all automated systems using DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. , SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. , LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. , 8mm or AIT drives; and Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares, 2002, F. Yale, April 2003. |
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