Ascent Storage 5 Optical Storage Manager From Kofax Now SupportS DVD-RAM.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 1999--Kofax Image Products (Nasdaq:KOFX) Monday announced Ascent Storage 5, a new DVD-RAM-enabled version of the company's optical jukebox See optical disc library. manager. Ascent Storage offers Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. drive letter emulation while retaining the power to efficiently retrieve, manage and process up to millions of document images. Ascent Storage 5 installs in minutes and requires no programming to install or use. Once installed, an optical jukebox that contains as much as 32 terabytes appears as just another drive letter on an NT network -- or an icon on an end-user's desktop. Ascent Storage 5 now supports the new Satellite and Galaxy families of DVD-RAM A rewritable DVD disc endorsed by the DVD Forum. Using phase change technology, DVD-RAMs are like removable hard disks, and the media can be rewritten 100,000 times compared to 1,000 times for DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first DVD-RAM drives with a capacity of 2.6GB (single sided) or 5. jukeboxes from NSM (Network and System Management) Running and controlling the networks and computer systems in an enterprise. See network management. . The Satellite accommodates 60 to 135 DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. discs and the Galaxy supports 410 to 620, for a total capacity ranging from 150 GB to over 1.6 terabytes, with performance similar to that of an MO jukebox A storage device for multiple sets of CD-ROMs, DVDs, tape cartridges or disk modules. Using carousels, robot arms and other methods, a jukebox physically moves the storage medium from its assigned location to an optical or magnetic station for reading and writing. . "We're delighted that Kofax has collaborated with NSM to make Ascent Storage 5 available at the launch of our high-capacity Satellite and Galaxy jukebox families," said NSM President David Ooley. "Ascent Storage 5 will ensure that Satellite and Galaxy customers will have a storage management choice that offers the highest levels of proven performance, ease-of-use and data integrity." "DVD-RAM promises to deliver the best of the CD and MO worlds. Like CD, it uses an inexpensive, standard medium that is quickly replacing CD in both desktop and production environments," said Kofax Vice President of Marketing Kevin Drum Kevin Drum (born October 19, 1958) is an American political blogger and columnist. He was born in Long Beach, California and now lives in Irvine, California. In 1991 he wed the newly named Marian Drum. . "However, DVD-RAM also provides several benefits found in MO products that make it an excellent choice for imaging and document management environments." DVD-RAM disks store 2.6 GB each, over four times as much as the 650 MB stored on a CD platter. This means more data under the head at one time, less disk swapping, and reduced jukebox thrashing thrashing: see threshing. Excessive paging in a virtual memory computer. If programs are not written to run in a virtual memory environment, the operating system may spend excessive amounts of time swapping program pages in and out of the disk. . DVD-RAM is also infinitely rewritable. Unlike CD-R (CD-Recordable) A writable CD technology using a type of compact disc that can be recorded, but not erased (CD-Rs are "write once" discs). CD-R discs are used to master CD-ROMs, to back up data and to make copies of data for distribution. , which is designed to be premastered in a single continuous operation, files can be written to DVD-RAM disks whenever they are available. This is a critical performance feature in real-time environments such as document imaging, where you are scanning pages and storing them immediately. Finally, DVD-RAM promises performance similar to that of MO. Seek times are lower than CD, transfer rates are higher, and overall file retrieval performance is nearly as good as the best MO jukeboxes. Ascent Storage 5 can be customized with a variety of built-in functions that accelerate file retrieval, file processing and administration of optical jukeboxes. It has been developed specifically for document management, including administration, full optical backup, offline-volume tracking and faster retrieval for document management applications. Event Handlers Retain Performance and Customizability Custom event handlers enable Ascent Storage to retain the power to grow with the application. Simple Visual Basic(R) code may be written to respond to any system event -- from retrieving a whole folder to fast magnetic storage when a specific file is requested to paging a system administrator when an off-line platter requires loading. Scalable Performance Ascent Storage 5's efficient database architecture avoids the performance degradation that occurs with some storage managers when they are required to handle several million documents. Ascent Storage uses an architecture optimized for document imaging storage rather than an off-the-shelf database that bogs down as application size increases. About Kofax Kofax Image Products Inc., www.kofax.com, is a leading supplier of both application software and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished products for the imaging, workflow and document management market. The company specializes in the capture and storage product segments, which are essential to helping paper intensive organizations economically and reliably capture and store critical business information. NOTE TO EDITORS: See A Live Demo April 13-15 in 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. Booth No. 2942 |
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