Publishing Industry Turns to DataCore To Expedite Pre-press Processing.Business Editors FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2003 SANsymphony Software Streamlines Document Flow, Speeds Job Completion DataCore Software has gained significant traction in the data-intensive publishing, pre-press and print media sectors, where improving the rate at which huge, multi-gigabyte files can be saved, accessed and transferred translates directly into greater revenue and profitability. These customers find that DataCore's SANsymphony(TM) storage control software boosts storage performance and raises uptime - enabling better utilization of large capital investments in printing equipment. The results deliver significant competitive advantage and enhanced productivity. "For publishers and prepress shops, the performance of applications, storage and presses are of primary concern. By increasing the number of production and printing projects that can be completed within extremely tight deadlines, SANsymphony delivers a direct financial impact," said Pat Taylor Pat Taylor may refer to:
Banta Corporation Banta Corporation was a major printing, imaging, and supply chain management company of the United States, based in Menasha, Wisconsin. Founded in 1901, it was acquired by Chicago-based RR Donnelley in 2006. , the seventh-largest printer in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , processes enormous digital files for printing educational and general books, calendars and B-to-B catalogues. Like most large printers, Banta requires a high-performance and reliability to keep presses running 24x7 and avoid thousands of dollars lost per hour of downtime. 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. a solution that would increase availability and simplify management, Banta Book Group's prepress production manager, Tom Clifford Tom Clifford is a former municipal politician in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He served twenty-seven years as an elected official as School Trustee for the Toronto Board of Education and as a City of Toronto Councillor representing the East Toronto and Riverdale , turned to SANsymphony. By centralizing management tasks of Banta's mission-critical operations, including hardware running on MacOS, 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. / 2000 and Unix platforms, SANsymphony eliminated many of the administrative headaches and significantly increased uptime. The outcome: a single, easy-to-use solution that maximizes existing resources while recouping ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). through improved productivity. DataCore has also worked with other publishing and communications customers to address similar needs: -- One West Coast printer specializing in commercial products such as high-end catalogs, publications and promotional materials invests in leading-edge technologies such as SANsymphony to empower the company. Allocating and reclaiming capacity quickly is an important element of their digital prepress vision. -- A multinational commercial print media firm assembled a Powered by DataCore(TM) SAN to serve very large files quickly between pre-production stages. In addition to cost savings, the solution has resulted in a fourfold fourfold Adjective 1. having four times as many or as much 2. composed of four parts Adverb by four times as many or as much Adj. 1. increase in data-transfer rates, and the ability to drive jobs faster to multi-million dollar presses. "Like many industries accustomed to only marginal performance increases from one year to the next, our printing clientele are amazed at the impact that auto provisioning and a 2x or 3x I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output speed up immediately has on their document flow and ultimately on their bottom line," said Augie Gonzalez, director of product marketing for DataCore Software. "SANsymphony helps them eliminate long setup periods and much idle time The duration of time a device is in an idle state, which means that it is operational, but not being used. in these highly serialized processes." About DataCore Software DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. The company's award-winning SANsymphony software provides unprecedented purchasing flexibility and future proofing by empowering customers to fulfill portability and price/performance requirements across a broad choice of systems and devices. Global 2000 enterprise data centers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and storage subsystems rely on this comprehensive software platform to centralize and automate storage management for Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS and NetWare systems. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com DataCore, the DataCore logo, Powered by DataCore and SANsymphony are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation DataCore Software is a privately held, computer software corporation founded in 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. DataCore manufactures storage virtualization software, focusing in Storage Area Networks (SAN), Continuous Data Protection (CDP), and Software Acceleration and . Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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