Avid Technology Taps Data General CLARiiON Full Fibre Channel Storage for Networked Digital Media Solutions.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999-- Data General CLARiiON and Avid Team Up at NAB '99 to Demonstrate Avid Unity; Avid's Collaborative Digital Media Production Solution The CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division of Data General Corporation announced today at the NAB '99 Conference that its CLARiiON FC5000 full Fibre Channel storage array will provide the networked storage backbone for Avid's newly announced digital media production solution, Avid Unity. In order to deliver true collaborative digital media creation solutions with simultaneous access to media during the post-production process, Avid Unity relies on the high-performance, high scalability and integral data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. provided by the CLARiiON FC5000. As post-production processes are continually evolving into digital-only environments in the broadcasting industry, advanced storage solutions, such as CLARiiON, play a critical role in successful digital media production. "Avid Technology "Avid" redirects here. For the "Advancement Via Individual Determination" educational program, see AVID. Avid Technology, Inc NASDAQ: AVID is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology; specifically, digital non-linear media editing (NLE) , an innovator in digital media technology, is continually developing products that are revolutionizing the digital audio and video community," said Dennis Hoffman, director of product marketing of networking and storage for Avid Technology. "CLARiiON has been a long-time provider of advanced disk storage solutions to Avid, and as the first storage provider to deliver complete, end-to-end Fibre Channel storage solutions, has played an important role in our ability to develop such innovative solutions as Avid Unity." "CLARiiON recognized very early on that full Fibre Channel storage solutions would play a critical role in emerging multi-media and video technology applications, such as Avid's Unity," said Joanne Masingill, vice president of marketing at CLARiiON. "Avid Technology has been a long-term business partner of ours because they also recognize the added value Added value in financial analysis of shares is to be distinguished from value added. Used as a measure of shareholder value, calculated using the formula:
CLARiiON Fibre Channel Storage Gets a Starring Role at NAB `99 Proven, high-speed storage has quickly become a critical component in the evolution of audio and video applications. CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage solutions are meeting this need with its family of high-performance, high-capacity, scalable and reliable storage solutions and are enabling new, innovative processes for production and delivery of video and audio content in the broadcasting industry. For example, a single CLARiiON RAID subsystem can broadcast and record several simultaneous video streams from the same disk array - impossible to accomplish with traditional video processes. In fact, more than 20 terabytes of CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage will be present in over 30 booths on the NAB show floor. Visiting CLARiiON at NAB '99 NAB '99 is being held Monday, April 19 through Thursday, April 22, at the 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. and Sands Exposition Center in 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. , NV. CLARiiON full Fibre Channel storage solutions and demonstrations can be seen at the CLARiiON booth (# S5141) in the Sands Exposition Center. About CLARiiON The CLARiiON Advanced Storage Division of Data General Corporation is the first major vendor to ship end-to-end Fibre Channel disk arrays. Having shipped more than 90,000 disk arrays and over six and a half petabytes (6,500 terabytes) of usable RAID-protected storage, CLARiiON is recognized as the world's leading storage supplier to OEMs. Our high-availability solutions, provided through resellers and direct from CLARiiON, feature flexible, scalable products for 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. and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. They include full Fibre Channel and SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. disk arrays and Navisphere(R) storage management software. For more information about CLARiiON, visit our web site at www.clariion.com. About Data General Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), based in Westborough, Massachusetts For other uses of "Westborough", see Westborough (disambiguation).
AViiON, CLARiiON, and Navisphere are registered trademarks, and Multidimensional Storage Architecture and TermServer-in-a-Box are trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand and product names referenced in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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