New StorNext FX Software for Xsan 1.3.Advanced Digital Information Corp, the leader in Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market, announced today the introduction of the latest version of its StorNext FX data management software. StorNext FX enables greater consolidation of workflow processes in Apple environments, helping users save time and increase productivity by allowing them to share their Xsan storage area networks and Xserve RAID systems with applications running on Linux, Windows, 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. The StorNext FX version 1.3 offers compatibility with the recently released Xsan 1.3. The combination of StorNext FX and Xsan lets users finish projects faster by allowing them to share files between Mac OS X systems and all major Linux, Windows, and UNIX platforms. Apple's Xsan is expanding the benefits of SANs to a wide range of data-intensive industries, including digital media post-production, imaging, scientific modeling, broadcast, and web-based content delivery, In these settings, StorNext FX shortens timelines and improves user productivity by letting Xsan environments support applications that require other, non-Mac OS platforms. It also provides users with an easily implemented path to automated migration of data across different storage tiers using ADIC's iMover technology. "The StorNext FX 1.3 release for Xsan 1.3 provides support for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Sun Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and Cray UNICOS/mp. www.adic.com |
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