Army National Guard Selects Leading Digital Media Solutions for Distributive Training Technology Project.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROCKVILLE, Md. & FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2001-- Artesia Technologies, Inktomi and Virage to Enable Live and On-Demand Delivery of e-Learning Content to Army National Guard Members Artesia Technologies, Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq:INKT INKT Inktomi, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) INKT I Never Knew That ) and Virage Inc. (Nasdaq:VRGE) today announced that the Army National Guard has selected digital media encoding, distribution and management solutions from their companies as key components for the Army National Guard's Distributive Training Technology Project (DTTP dTTP n. One of the two pyrimidine nucleotides that are used to synthesize DNA. [d(eoxy)- + t(hymidine) + t(ri)p(hosphate).] ). Established in 1995, the DTTP is a federal distributed training project that allows Guardsmen the opportunity to receive highly effective and timely training in classrooms across the country. In addition to improving military readiness, the DTTP yields significant time and cost savings for the Army National Guard and enhances recruitment and retention efforts through the availability of improved educational resources. "The DTTP initiative is designed to improve readiness and the overall command and control process while providing an e-learning technology foundation that federal and state agencies, academia, business and industry can leverage," said Susan Dix, chief technology officer, DTTP initiative. "A critical component of this effort is providing secure, reliable and effective online education and training to National Guard members. With the support of leading technology providers like Artesia, Inktomi and Virage, we have assembled a proven team to help us meet this requirement." The technology foundation for the DTTP initiative is a new architecture, the Guard Content Management System (GCMS GCMS Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer GCMS Government Contractor Monitoring Station GCMS Global Communication Management System (Sajan, Inc.) GCMS Gas Chromatography Coupled Mass Spectroscopy ), which pre-positions e-learning content at the edge of the Army National Guard's network in hundreds of classrooms. In designing and building the GCMS, the Army National Guard has selected leading solutions for capturing and encoding, distributing, logging, storing and managing live and on-demand video and other forms of rich media content. Through the effective organization, delivery and management of these rich media assets, the Army National Guard will gain the ability to more quickly and efficiently provide e-learning content for individual, group and global training initiatives. -- Artesia's TEAMS solution will function as a back-end digital media repository for managing multiple types of media and supporting front-end applications such as learning management systems and media portals. -- The Inktomi(R) Content Networking Platform will allow the Army National Guard to deliver rich, live and on-demand video training content to more than 280 classrooms in its initial phase. Inktomi content networking software will distribute and store this information close to users for high performance delivery. -- Virage's SmartEncode Suite will provide automated capture, encoding and indexing capabilities for on-demand video. All of these technologies support the Department of Defense's Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM SCORM Shareable Content Object Reference Model (web-based e-learning standard) SCORM Shared Courseware Object Reference Model SCORM Shareable Courseware Object Reference Model ), an XML-based standard for ensuring the interoperability of educational content regardless of access device, enabling users throughout the Army National Guard to find, access and share content from a variety of federal sources. About Artesia Technologies Artesia Technologies is the market leader in enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM). Artesia's core product, TEAMS, enables organizations to capture, manage, and dynamically re-express valuable rich-media assets -- video, audio, images, graphics, and text -- and leverage them to exploit new business opportunities requiring targeted delivery of rich media. In addition, TEAMS' open API Open API (often referred to as OpenAPI) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other by using SOAP, Javascript any other web technology. and support for industry standards such as Java, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global , and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , enable the creation of enterprise-scale solutions. Artesia's blue-ribbon customers include thought leaders as impressive and diverse as Time Warner Trade Publishing, General Motors, Random House, Herman Miller Herman Miller may refer to:
For additional information on Artesia Technologies, please visit our web site at www.artesia.com. About Inktomi Based in Foster City, Calif., Inktomi develops and markets network infrastructure software essential for global enterprises and service providers. Inktomi's business is divided into Network Products, comprised of industry leading solutions for network caching, content distribution, media broadcasting, and wireless technologies; and Search Solutions, which include general Web search and related services, and enterprise search. Inktomi's customer and strategic partner base includes leading companies such as America Online See AOL. , AT&T, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , Microsoft, Nokia, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Yahoo! The company has offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Asia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.inktomi.com/. About Virage Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Virage is the leading provider of video content management and publishing solutions. The Virage Video Application Platform transforms video into an effective online medium that is easy to publish, manage and distribute on the Internet or corporate intranets. The Virage platform provides content owners with the complete infrastructure for seamlessly integrating 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. into business, entertainment and information applications. From ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. to Yahoo!, well over 300 customers across a broad range of markets have turned to Virage to help them improve production efficiencies and create new revenue opportunities with video. Check out Virage at http://www.virage.com. Artesia and TEAMS are trademarks of Artesia Technologies. Inktomi and the tri-colored cube design are trademarks or registered trademarks of Inktomi Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other names are the property of their respective trademark holders. Virage and VideoLogger are registered trademarks. The Virage logo, Virage Application Server and SmartEncode are trademarks of Virage, Inc. Other company product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others, and are hereby acknowledged. |
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