ADIC and Hitachi Data Systems Demonstrate Fastest SAN Solution for the Rich Media Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB 2002 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2002 Hitachi Freedom Storage Provides Muscle for Powerful Video File Sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. Solution Based on ADIC CentraVision Software The new SAN-based video file sharing solution will be shown at this year's NAB show (April 8-11, 2002, Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. ) in both the Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. Booth (L6603) and ADIC Booth (S6637). Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) and Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT), today present the fastest and largest capacity SAN-based video file sharing solution for the video production and digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a industry. The new solution demonstrates to customers the ability to successfully manage both anticipated and unanticipated rapid increases in requirements to access stored files 24 hours a day. This directly addresses the problem of performance and capacity shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw. Shortcomings may also be:
NFS - Network File System and CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. solutions The solution combines ADIC's high speed file sharing system, CentraVision(TM), and Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) to deliver an extremely high throughput video engine. ADIC's CentraVision sharing layer connects the video production team's individual heterogeneous workstations to the centrally stored video footage, enabling them to work on files at the source. This eliminates the cumbersome task of individuals having to manually copy the piece of video that they want to work on from the central archive and then copy it back once they have completed their work. Furthermore, this degree of enhanced access allows video production and broadcasting companies to greatly improve workflow for applications such as video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. , streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. over IP, and digital broadcasting. The technology also provides dramatic performance gains for other high data volume industries, including pre-press, seismic analysis Seismic Analysis or Earthquake Engineering is a subset of structural analysis and is the calculation of the response of a building (or nonbuilding) structure to earthquakes. , and high performance computing. Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) provides this solution with powerful performance and scalability, speed and reliability, and brings data-center levels of resilience to the studio environment. The Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) Thunder 9200(TM) is well-suited for studio environments while larger broadcaster centers will enjoy the Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) Lightning 9960(TM). The Lightning 9960 is an intelligent data storage system that delivers up to 88 terabytes of non-disruptive scalability. The unique Hi-Star(TM) switched architecture of the Lightning 9960 combines with up to 32 Fibre Channel ports to deliver bottleneck-free performance in SAN environments. This connectivity and performance level enables the whole production team to access video files at the same time. In addition, the CentraVision environment allows the stored video to be striped across all ports to create an extremely wide funnel for fast, high volume throughput. "Hitachi Data Systems provides an ideal storage infrastructure for data-intensive, rich media applications," said Glenn Brackenridge, Performance Consultant, Hitachi Data Systems. "By working closely with ADIC, we have clearly demonstrated the power of Hitachi Freedom storage for high performance video file sharing environments. This demonstration clearly shows that the combination of Hitachi Freedom Storage and ADIC CentraVision can meet the requirements of the largest rich media applications. This is especially important with the inevitable move toward digitization of more business processes." Paul Rutherford
About Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Data Systems, the fastest-growing enterprise storage provider, is a leading supplier of storage hardware, software, solutions and services. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), Japan's largest electronics company, Hitachi Data Systems is committed to providing the storage infrastructure for the world's most information-intensive corporations. With 2,600 employees, Hitachi Data Systems does business through direct sales and resellers in the public and private sectors in 170 countries on six continents. Its customers include more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.hds.com. About Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1999 (ended March 31, 2000) consolidated sales of 8,001 billion yen ($75.5 billion(1)). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at www.hitachi.co.jp. (1) At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar. About ADIC(R) Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace, offering a broad range of Intelligent Storage(TM) products designed to enhance organizations' abilities to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC products include technology-independent automated storage systems, specialized storage management software, and multiple-protocol storage networking (SAN/NAS) connectivity and management tools. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and 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) . Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. ADIC is a registered trademark and Intelligent Storage and CentraVision are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. Freedom Storage, Lightning 9900, Hi-Star, and Thunder 9200 are trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems. All other trade or service marks in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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