Chaparral Network Storage and Space Imaging Demonstrate Integrated Solutions for Image Exploration; Scalable, High-Performance Solutions Offer Maximum Results to Geospatial Analysts.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 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 spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. appliances that delivers high-performance access to data in geospatial Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. The term is often used in conjunction with geographic information systems and geomatics. environments, and Space Imaging, the world's leading provider of Earth imagery and related services to commercial and government markets, announce the integration of CARTERRA(TM) Analyst Imaging Exploitation Software with RIO and RIVA Storage Solutions. Demonstrations are available at Chaparral's demo lab in Boulder, Colorado The City of Boulder (, Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. Boulder is the 11th most populous city in the State of Colorado, as well as the most populous city and the county . The combined solutions offer geospatial analysts innovative workstation tools integrated with high-performance storage to maximize their workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. processes. CARTERRA Analyst provides imaging exploration customers the ability to save time, increase productivity and decrease costs by implementing a technology that uses a single user interface with Chaparral's high-performance, high-availability Liberty-architecture Storage Solutions. With the Space Imaging and Chaparral easy-to-use implementation, customers will experience an immediate increase in efficiency in their operator's usage. Combining CARTERRA Analyst imaging software with Chaparral Storage Solutions provides a scalable solution for customers that want the ability to expand their changing storage needs based upon their capacity and data volume needs. Space Imaging also created CARTERRA Analyst to be flexible enough to handle the demands of an enterprise user while remaining simple enough for a novice user to manage. "Chaparral is pleased to partner with Space Imaging and to provide them with the high-performance storage that their customer needs in the geospatial environment, said Dennis Cindrich, Chaparral Vice President of Corporate Development. "Integrating our RIO and RIVA Storage Systems with CARTERRA provides an outstanding solution for customers looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. enterprise performance storage with a leading edge, image exploitation software." Chaparral's RIVA and RIO Storage Solutions are both Fibre Channel-based drive technologies offering over 35TB storage capacity in a fault-tolerant architecture. RIVA and RIO Storage Solutions sustain sequential reads from disk, which translate into optimized high-bandwidth performance. The Chaparral Storage Solutions maintain consistent disk performance under heavy workloads, allowing CARTERRA Analyst to maintain its edge in imaging processing and analysis. CARTERRA Analyst incorporates multiple tools of image collection and analysis into one simple and powerful software tool. Users will benefit from CARTERRA Analyst's integrated tools that handle tasks from image collection, ingesting, cataloging, analyzing and reporting functions in a simple-to-use technology. Demonstrations of CARTERRA Analyst and RIO or RIVA Storage Solutions are available at Chaparral by appointment. To set up an appointment, please contact Deb Ludington, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Distribution Manager, at 303-845-3200, or email dludington@chaparralnet.com. 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 The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. 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. About Space Imaging Space Imaging is the premier provider of satellite imagery Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. History The first satellite photographs of Earth were made August 14, 1959 by the US satellite Explorer 6. enabling businesses, governments and individuals to better map, measure, monitor and manage the world in which we live. Based near Denver, Colo., Space Imaging radically transformed the Earth information market when in 1999 it launched IKONOS, the world's first commercial high-resolution imaging satellite. Today, Space Imaging's products are the cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of the remote-sensing industry. The company supplies the highest quality, most accurate, visual information about the planet's changing natural and cultural features. Space Imaging's customer-centric business lines include imagery from satellites and aircraft, decision-support geospatial solutions, and direct access to its satellites for corporations and governments. With expected 2003 revenues over $200 million, Space Imaging is a privately held company with partners, resellers and 13 affiliate ground stations around the world. For more information on products and services, please visit www.spaceimaging.com. |
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