Alacritech Accelerators Enable the Highest Performance and Efficiency in Data-Intensive Digital Media Environments.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2003 Top Post Production Houses Integrate TNICs to Cost-Effectively Speed Systems, Increase Content Creator Productivity and Extend IT Resources Alacritech(R), Inc., the innovator of data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems, today announced that its Accelerators are rapidly penetrating the digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. market. Leading newsrooms, post production houses and visual effects companies have recognized the value of integrating TCP/IP Offload Engine See TOE. Network Interface Cards (TNICs) in their servers to cost-effectively increase system performance and content creator productivity in their data-intensive environments. "Digital media environments place heavy demands on networked systems," said Kim Peyser, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "Post production companies and high-profile newsrooms are incorporating Alacritech Accelerators to maximize system performance and improve organizational efficiency by eliminating bandwidth and scalability limitations." In networks used by digital content creators and teams making special effects for major motion pictures and television, technical directors require solutions that allow systems to efficiently handle large files. Post production houses also demand rapid delivery of large media files between servers, render farms and editing stations to meet shorter time-to-market deadlines. Alacritech Accelerators are ideally suited for the data delivery demands of digital content creation, freeing artists and producers from unnecessary network delays. Leading Visual Effects Companies Benefit From TNICs "Stargate Digital produces the visual effects for TV shows such as CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International :, ER and Third Watch, as well as television movies and feature films," said Dr. Joseph Meier, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Stargate Digital. "Our 2D and 3D digital content creators work on up to 15 visual effects projects simultaneously and under tight deadlines. Alacritech's Accelerators significantly increased the performance of our servers to efficiently move data, so our graphic artists have the processing power they need, and the network servers aren't burdened by the transfer of large video files." "We needed to find a cost-effective way to move our large amounts of graphics-intensive data through our two servers to our SAN," said Joe De Michelis, information systems administrator, Rainmaker Rainmaker An employee of a brokerage firm who brings a large amount of wealthy individuals or corporations to the brokerage firm's client base. Notes: Rainmakers are usually compensated very well for their efforts (or connections). Limited Partnership. "After a careful cost/benefit analysis, we installed Alacritech Accelerators in our existing machines and saw throughput quadruple to 60MB/s in our production environment. The Alacritech Accelerators provide tremendous ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). as they enabled us to inexpensively maximize both our technical resources and our staff productivity." For more information on how Stargate Digital and Rainmaker Limited Partnership are benefiting from the use of Alacritech Accelerators, please visit http://www.alacritech.com/html/case_studies.html. About Alacritech Acceleration Technology As systems and servers move increasing amounts of network data, new solutions are needed to solve both efficiency and throughput challenges. Alacritech's SLIC SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC Scottish Library and Information Council SLIC System Licensed Internal Code SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card SLIC Session Layer Interface Card (Alacritech, Inc. Technology(R) supplements the TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. software control plane with distributed hardware data planes to maximize data movement through Ethernet-based networks. This patented Data Path Offload (DPO DPO Direct Public Offering (finance/investment) DPO Direct Public Offering DPO District Police Officer (Pakistan) DPO Days Payables Outstanding DPO Document Process Outsourcing DPO Days Past Ovulation ) architecture is designed to maximize server and storage performance and efficiency. All Alacritech products offer industry-standard failover and link aggregation. Availability Alacritech Accelerators are a complete line of Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet TNIC TNIC TOE (TCP Offload Engine) Network Interface Card TNIC Telex Network Identification Code (ITU-T) TNIC Theater Network Integration Center TNIC Toe Network Interface Card products based on SLIC Technology, Alacritech's revolutionary DPO architecture. Alacritech Accelerators are available for $999 (copper version) or $1,399 (fiber version) each. Digital media products from leading companies such as Avid Technologies and Pinnacle Systems also ship with Alacritech Accelerators. About Alacritech, Inc. Alacritech, Inc., led by industry visionary Larry Boucher, was founded to provide data acceleration solutions that enable the highest performance and efficiency in networked systems. Today, Alacritech is the first and only supplier of TCP Offload Engine TCP Offload Engine or TOE is a technology used in network interface cards to offload processing of the entire TCP/IP stack to the network controller. It is primarily used with high-speed network interfaces, such as gigabit Ethernet and 10 gigabit Ethernet, where processing (TOE) Network Interface Card (TNIC) solutions. Alacritech's complete line of high-performance server and storage accelerators is based on the company's patented SLIC Technology to optimize data delivery in servers, network-attached storage and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology, the first fully compatible and scalable TOE technology, is being delivered in the industry's leading storage and server products. Alacritech is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com. Alacritech, the Alacritech logo, SLIC Technology, SLIC Technology logo and Accelerating Data Delivery are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Alacritech, Inc. in the United States. Other marks belong to their respective owners. |
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