AditiNet's iMageTurbo Moves Graphic Arts Industry's Media Assets from CD Cabinets to Online Networked Storage.Business/Technology Editors 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 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Geared-for-Mac Solution Offers First Step to Media Asset Management By Providing Fast Access to Thousands of Mirrored CDs AditiNet, Inc., a technology leader in static information Network Accessed Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ), today announced LANRedi iMageTurbo(TM), a designed-for-Mac solution that enables graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving. firms to move their media assets from CD cabinets to networks. The product enables creative professionals to instantly access thousands of CDs and hundreds of DVDs across the network for fast re-use, re-purpose, and re-expression. By mirroring CDs onto hard disks and making them instantly accessible over the network, iMageTurbo offers a first step to effective media asset management. iMageTurbo also increases productivity and reduces risk of damaging originals. "Content on CDs represents years of work and is the most valuable asset for many graphic arts companies," said Kanti Purohit, chief executive officer of AditiNet. "Leaving those CDs on shelves and not leveraging this media asset for fast re-use, re-purpose, or re-expression is like keeping your money under your mattress. Bringing the full library of CDs online is the first step towards effective media asset management." Purohit added, "With iMageTurbo, marketing agencies and departments, and firms engaged in color pre-press, publishing, and printing can now affordably share thousands of CDs and hundreds of DVDs instantly and simultaneously across the network." A corollary to Moore's law "The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months." By Intel co-founder Gordon Moore regarding the pace of semiconductor technology. He made this famous comment in 1965 when there were approximately 60 devices on a chip. states that with each doubling of microprocessor speed (for a media-producing computing platform See platform. ), the daily amount of information produced by creative professionals quadruples. As a result, companies engaged in graphic arts "burn" hundreds of CDs to store their creative media output. These CDs are then indexed and, in many cases, stored in a safe place. Later, when a particular CD is needed, users search the index for the CD. Even in today's networked age, oftentimes graphics professionals must then actually "sneakernet" from their desks to the CD cabinet and back to begin using it, if it isn't already checked out. Frequent handling may also damage originals. Sometimes companies choose CD jukeboxes A CD player that holds multiple audio CDs. The term may also refer to a CD-ROM jukebox. See CD-ROM server and digital jukebox. when needing to share a large number of CDs, more than conventional CD-ROM towers can accommodate. As with CD-ROM towers, access through jukeboxes is slow. When the limited number of drives are already in use, access to additional CDs is denied. By replicating CDs and DVDs onto iMageTurbo, everyone on the network can now access the full library of CDs and DVDs instantly and simultaneously. Designed for the Mac, iMageTurbo also accommodates PCs with Windows, OS2, Unix, and Linux 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. for simultaneous access to the same information from a single physical medium. Availability and Pricing The LANRedi iMageTurbo is immediately available for volume shipments in standard tower and rack configurations as well as those designed for added portability, scalability, and space-savings. Custom configurations are also available. Prices range from $5,245.00 for 75 CD titles to $101,591 for 2,250 CD titles. About AditiNet, Inc. AditiNet, Inc. is a technology leader in static information Network Accessed Storage (NAS). Nearly 80% of online information is static or near-static across a broad range of industries. The company's LANRedi Turbo(TM) family of hard disk based (1) Refers to devices that use magnetic hard disks for storage. It often refers to portable devices such as digital music players that have hard disks rather than flash memory. All desktop and laptop computers are presumed to have hard disks, and most servers have hard disks. archive and CD/DVD mirroring solutions enable users to share static information online at near-line prices. By offloading static information onto LANRedi Turbo products, companies can free up their general-purpose servers to perform mission-critical tasks faster as well as speed up file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. for everyone on the network. LANRedi Turbo products can be up and running in less than 15 minutes and are easy to manage using any web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. from anywhere on the network. AditiNet, Inc. was formerly TAC 1. TAC - Translator Assembler-Compiler. For Philco 2000. 2. TAC - Terminal Access Controller. Systems, Inc. For more information, send e-mail to info@lanredi.com, visit www.lanredi.com or call 256-721-1976. AditiNet, LANRedi, LANRedi Turbo, CD/DVDTurbo, ArchiveTurbo, TeraTurbo, iMageTurbo, MediaTurbo, PortableTurbo, and SlimRackTurbo are trademarks of @fax, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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