CentraVision 2.0 Enhanced for Broadcast and Web-Serving Applications; Faster Failover Supports Digital Broadcast and Large-Scale Web-Serving Users.Business Editors REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2002 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) the leader in Intelligent Storage systems, announced today the release of version 2.0 of its CentraVision SAN file system, the industry's leading solution for providing shared access to data in a SAN environment. CentraVision 2.0 adds enhanced support for real-time content delivery applications, including on-air digital broadcasting Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analogue waveforms to carry broadcasts over television channels or assigned radio frequency bands. It is becoming increasingly popular for television usage (especially satellite television) but is having a and web serving, with automated high-speed failover to increase overall system availability. With CentraVision 2.0, if a primary host fails for any reason, the journaled file system is available automatically on a standby system within seconds, allowing broadcast or web delivery operations to continue without interruption. In broadcasting applications, CentraVision lets end users enhance images and perform non-linear editing on broadcast signals using multiple editing stations, all of which can access the data stream simultaneously. "Digital broadcasting allows the kinds of effects we saw in the recent Winter Olympics coverage--things like flags in the ice behind speed skaters The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long track or short track), gender and competing nationality. Long track Male American
Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. sites save time and money by replacing many locally attached Refers to disks, printers and other peripheral devices that are connected directly to a computer via USB or FireWire. Such devices may be designed for desktop use or portability. For example, a locally-attached, stationary hard drive may weigh three to five pounds, while one made for disk resources with CentraVision and a single, shared array See shared disk array. that can be accessed by many servers at the same time. CentraVision lets all host machines share a common data set, down to individual files, allowing web-site managers to reduce management overhead, keep file sets current more easily, and respond more rapidly to shifts in end-user demand. The new failover feature also enhances overall system availability for all of the applications that benefit from CentraVision's file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , including rich media content creation, scientific analysis, large-scale imaging, pre-press, and applications that manage large-files or use collaborative workflow. "We have seen CentraVision 2.0 selected for some of the world's most demanding web hosting systems to enable centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. data sharing," said Mr Rutherford. "Its data sharing is so efficient that even with video and other rich media files, servers can make images available to hundreds of end users from a single shared file. That gives end users tremendous flexibility and greatly reduces the amount of time they spend copying files and moving them around to handle shifting demand." CentraVision allows multiple host computers to transparently share data stored on centralized Fibre Channel disks over a high-bandwidth storage network, supporting Unix, Linux and Windows clients at the same time. Because it lets different users share data down to the individual file level--even allowing multiple users to work on the same file at the same time--CentraVision enables collaborative workflow, reduces the need to duplicate, move, and store different files, and reduces management overhead. In addition to enhanced failover, CentraVision 2.0 also adds enhanced support for Sun Solaris platforms and for Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. . About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace, offering a broad range of Intelligent Storage(TM) products designed to enhance organizations' abilities to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC products include automated storage systems, specialized storage management software, and multiple-protocol storage networking (SAN/NAS) connectivity and management tools. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. ADIC is a registered trademark and Intelligent Storage and CentraVision are trademarks of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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