SANRAD Dances around Problems of Digitizing Ethnomusicological Video for Two Universities.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- iSCSI V-Switch Solution is Music to the Ears of University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. in Bloomington SANRAD Incorporated, a leader in developing and delivering intelligent iSCSI SAN solutions, announced today that its award-winning V-Switch is helping the University of Michigan and Indiana University in Bloomington permanently preserve libraries of videotape documenting musical and dance traditions from around the world in digital format before the content is lost forever due to degradation of age. The Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA EVIA Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis EVIA Estes Valley Improvement Association (Estes Park, CO, USA) EVIA Electric Vehicle Industry Association ) Digital Archive project The Digital Archive Project (DAP) was originally created as a means of sharing and preserving, in a digital format, episodes of the cult classic TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. is a joint effort between the two universities, with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a foundation endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation. , to preserve the video recordings of university instructors and make them easily accessible for future teaching and research. The project utilizes a high-speed storage infrastructure built around SANRAD's iSCSI V-Switch. Implementing an iSCSI-based SAN with the SANRAD V-Switch solved the storage and file transfer problems of the universities' initial plan. The size of the video files and the speed required to transfer the files between locations proved problematic. The V-Switch has 2 Terabytes of disk capacity attached on the SAN, and UM's high speed network makes its possible to write the 50mb/second video files directly to the iSCSI SAN located across the campus. "With iSCSI, as I'm encoding in real time, this stuff is going to where it belongs in real time so I don't have to set up this file transfer to run all night and secure the room so no one messes up my transfer," said Dan Hague, Senior Video Engineer for the Information Technology Central Services at the University of Michigan at the time of the project. "As soon as that first video is done, I just stop it and put in the next video. The time savings really start to make a difference when you have 30 instructors' lifetime work to encode." "SANRAD's V-Switch eliminates the complexity, cost and distance problems that are inherent in ambitious projects such as the EVIA Digital Archive," said Uli Gal-Oz, SANRAD CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "By removing barriers associated with large file sizes, remote locations and transfer speeds, we are helping to make learning tools and educational content available to students and facility alike. In fact, campuses around the country are embracing the SANRAD iSCSI V-Switch for its performance, value and high-availability architecture." SANRAD's innovative iSCSI V-Switch introduces all-in-one iSCSI storage networking, guaranteeing the fully availability and seamless management of stored information across standard Ethernet networks, affording a complete storage continuity solution that is easy to deploy with excellent price/performance. The iSCSI V-Switch is a convergence of functions, which include protocol bridging, storage routing, switching, security, load-balancing, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and volume management within a single easy-to-manage platform designed to reduce the inherent complexity of storage networks at a fraction of the cost of a comparable performing Fibre Channel-based SAN. About SANRAD SANRAD delivers intelligence at the network layer and is the leader in intelligent IP Storage Networking, enabling hundreds of organizations worldwide to effectively access, share and manage storage across standard Ethernet environments. SANRAD delivers a new dimension in the continuity and simple management of vital business information by coupling standard IP connectivity with network-based storage services to create IP-based Storage Area Networks. SANRAD IP SANs enable full data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. , effective resource provisioning and complete data protection with excellent price/performance. SANRAD's U.S. sales, marketing and support offices are located in Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, Calif., with research and development and international sales offices in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel. SANRAD is backed by leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. and is a member of the RAD Group, a family of more than 20 independent companies that together make up one of the largest multi-national revenue producers in networking. |
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