Chaparral Demonstrates Industry Leading Performance and Interoperability at National Association of Broadcasters 'NAB' in Las Vegas.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2003 BOULDER, Colo. and LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2003 Chaparral chaparral (chăpərăl`), type of plant community in which shrubs are dominant. It occurs usually in regions having from 10 to 20 in. (25–50 cm) of rainfall annually and with a Mediterranean-type climate. Network Storage, Inc., a developer of specialized appliances that delivers high-performance access to data rich media environments, will be demonstrating the high performance, fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and high definition capabilities of its 2-Gigabit/second (2Gb/s) Fibre Channel RIO DISK Storage Subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show April 7-10 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. , Nevada. Chaparral will be located in the SAN Pavilion Booth #C4162f. Chaparral will be demonstrating the high definition video streaming See streaming video and video stream. to and from its RIO DISK Storage Subsystem connected to a Macintosh G4 running Apple's Final Cut Pro editing application. The RIO DISK storage subsystem is able to sustain transfer rates while supporting 1080p and 1080i, a video format for high definition. In addition, Chaparral and Sanbolic will be demonstrating a distributed and shared journaled file system, Melio FS. Sanbolic's Melio FS is specifically designed for 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. storage environments that require a single shared storage pool available to all connected heterogeneous servers. Chaparral products will be available to view at various partners' booths at NAB. CommandSoft will be demonstrating the certification of their FibreJet(TM) high-speed SAN-sharing software and the RIO DISK storage subsystem at booth C4162e in the SAN Pavilion. Advanced Video Designs will be demonstrating the Chaparral R2500 storage subsystem with multiple workstations accessing shared common storage in a post-production workflow in booth SU6219. "We are pleased to be able to demonstrate the high definition streaming capabilities of the RIO DISK storage subsystem," said Cooper Cowart, Chaparral vice president of marketing. "Chaparral's RIO DISK and R2500 storage subsystems have the fault tolerance and availability characteristics to fully protect our customers' data in today's video and film SAN environments, while maintaining the streaming performance required to support their applications." Live Demonstrations at NAB Chaparral products will be demonstrated at NAB, April 7-10 in Las Vegas, NV in the SAN Pavilion Booth #C4162f. About Chaparral (www.chaparralnet.com) Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., 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. headquartered in Boulder, Colo., designs and markets storage appliances that provide simple solutions to common storage networking problems. Chaparral specializes in advanced performance devices that deliver data efficiently within the network, and sells protocol bridges, data routers, RAID controllers A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. and disk array appliances that are network ready. Chaparral's storage networking appliances feature 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. and FC connectivity, easy device configuration and management tools, and tested interoperability with leading SAN products and storage resource management software. Chaparral's family of 2Gb/s Fibre Channel appliances allows any system administrator to build high performance storage networks on a manageable budget. Chaparral's solutions are available through select storage OEMs, resellers, and distributors worldwide. FibreJet(TM) is a trademark of CommandSoft, Inc. |
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