Cygnet Storage Solutions and WebWare Media Asset Management Partnership Provides Ultra-High Capacity CD and DVD Storage Solutions for the Corporate Archive, Pre-press and Broadcasting Markets.MILPITAS and SAUSALITO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999-- WebWare MAMBO Supports Cygnet's SmartDAX Cygnet cygnet a young swan. Storage Solutions, Inc. and WebWare Corporation announced today that they have joined forces to solve the digital asset management issues created by the exploding volume of text, image, video and other assets other assets Assets of relatively small value. For financial reporting purposes, firms frequently combine small assets into a single category rather than listing each item separately. in many organizations. Under the agreement, Cygnet and WebWare will work together to implement a seamless digital archival solution, enabling mid-sized and Global 2000 customers to gain control over their sprawling on-line and archived media assets. WebWare MAMBO, the leading web-based media asset management solution, has multiple capabilities such as catalog, search, transformation, version control, and check-in/check-out from any 4.x or higher web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . MAMBO provides robust support for text, image, vector illustration, audio, video and compound document formats such as QuarkXPress, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe InDesign. SmartDAX is the first in a series of CD/DVD mass storage and archival library devices to be supported by WebWare MAMBO. Support for the entire Cygnet Infinidisc line is scheduled for the near future. MAMBO keeps all the metadata, thumbnails and proxy representation of the assets online, and can archive the high-resolution versions to the SmartDAX based on elapsed time e·lapsed time n. The measured duration of an event. Noun 1. elapsed time - the time that elapses while some event is occurring from last access, a user-defined expiration date Expiration Date The day on which an options or futures contract is no longer valid and, therefore, ceases to exist. Notes: The expiration date for all listed stock options in the U.S. , or when the asset is superseded with a new version. This provides clients with the ability to retrieve any version of any asset quickly and easily from any desktop. "Bringing SmartDAX and MAMBO together represents an immense benefit for the digital asset management, pre-press and broadcasting verticals, actively targeted by both Cygnet and WebWare," said Wayne Augsburger, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing CD/DVD with Cygnet. "The combination of Cygnet and WebWare technology will become the solutions of choice for companies in search of fully-functional, enterprise-wide digital asset management systems. By joining our efforts and pooling our creative resources together, we are providing our customers with the perfect tool for transforming chaotic files, disks and tapes into a secure, managed, and easily accessible library of media assets." SmartDAX breaks new ground providing the performance and media longevity of a CD/DVD solution with archiving cost per Megabyte that make it a very compelling alternative to tape libraries. With a maximum capacity of 468 Gigabytes over 720 CDs, easily expandable to as many units as needed as needed prn. See prn order. , SmartDAX can be configured in any varying combination of CD writers and readers lending itself perfectly to the implementation of customized solutions. SmartDAX is network based with an Ethernet interface for integration into 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). , 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 Mac environments. SmartDAX's many standard features include CD copying and an easy upgrade to 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. . "When we mention the work we are doing with Cygnet to a number of our customers in various industries," said Seamus Hatch, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition of Sales and Marketing at WebWare,"the reaction is always the same: 'How much does this cost?' very quickly followed by 'I want one'. Needless to say we are very excited about the possibilities this technology opens up for our customers." About Cygnet Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. is proud to be the choice provider of an increasingly wide array of CD/DVD storage and automated recording solutions, both hardware - such as CD/DVD jukeboxes, CD autoloading au·to·load·ing adj. Semiautomatic. Adj. 1. autoloading - (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously; "an autoloading rifle" self-loading, semiautomatic replicators/duplicators, CD towers, network attached storage devices and network servers - and supporting storage management software for a number of vertical markets including banking, government, healthcare and entertainment. In the field of optical storage, Cygnet's Series 1800 12-in. library is installed by more imaging and enterprise-class storage end-users than any other large-format optical library. Headquartered in Milpitas, California Milpitas (IPA pronunciation: mɪlpitʌs; inhabitants are called 'Milpitans') is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of Highway 237 and generally between Interstate freeways 680 and , Cygnet markets its products worldwide through partnerships with leading storage, imaging and network solutions providers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Visit Cygnet at http://www.cygnet.com or email at sales@cygnet.com About WebWare WebWare, founded in 1996, is the leader in the web-based media asset management solutions. WebWare's MAMBO product suite combines the ease of use of a browser interface with the unmatched power and scaleability of WebWare's three-tier, object-oriented architecture. The company is privately held and based in Sausalito, California Sausalito is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area situated in Marin County, California, United States. The population was 7,330 as of the year 2000 census. Viña del Mar, Chile, home to "Sausalito" stadium and "Sausalito" lagoon, is a sister city of Sausalito, which features a , with a sales office in Boston, Massachusetts. For further information, including a live demonstration, please visit http://www.WebWareCorp.com or email info@WebWareCorp.com. Infinidisc, InfiniDVD, InfiniWriter, id 100, id 100 Duplicator, Panorama(+), DVD 100 and Cygnet Series 1800 are trademarks of Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. SmartDAX is a trademark of Chess DAX BV. WebWare, MAMBO and Media Asset Management By Objectives are trademarks of WebWare Corp. All other product names are registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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