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Stratacache Launches OmniCast 3.0; Terabyte File Capacity, Improved Bandwidth Management, Full TCP/Internet Support, Windows File System Security Highlight List of Improvements.


DAYTON, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873.  -- Stratacache, the leader in scalable content delivery solutions for broadly distributed organizations, today announced OmniCast 3.0, the latest version of the world's most popular content distribution software. OmniCast, which is already used by the world's largest enterprises to distribute data, software, and video files simultaneously and cost-effectively to hundreds of thousands of branch facilities, now features greater security, capacity, and flexibility. Currently in final testing, the software will be available on January 16, 2006.

Already known for proven scalability that enables it to distribute files of up to 30 gigabytes to as many as 100,000 endpoints from a single server, OmniCast 3.0 offers several new features in response to customer demand and the company's ongoing determination to remain at the forefront of content distribution technology.

Sales of OmniCast have skyrocketed over the past two years as companies increasingly need reliable and low-cost methods of ensuring fast and consistent data distribution throughout their worldwide facilities. From applications ranging from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to brand consistency to in-store video signage and distance learning applications, OmniCast offers a scalable, cost-effective distribution solution that is highly flexible and can be installed and configured con·fig·ure  
tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures
To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses:
 in minutes.

"In order to compensate for reduced branch office IT staffing and to achieve corporate compliance and security goals, many companies have centralized cen·tral·ize  
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 the storage of corporate data. At the same time users are demanding faster access to this information," said Joe Skorupa, research director at Gartner, Inc. "Content distribution products can be a good way to provide rapid access to information without major network upgrades."

New OmniCast 3.0 features include:

--Site-specific time and bandwidth controls for improved network bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager.  

--Upgraded file size capacity into the Terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time.

(unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes.

(Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix.
 range

--The ability to pass Windows file system security controls along with content files, ensuring that only authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal  have access to distributed content

--Enhanced proxy content injection features, which provide transparent content access to edge site users

--Improved resource utilization controls to empower greater system automation and self healing The ability to restore a failure situation such as a broken transmission line or a missing program file that is part of a software application. See self-healing network.  

--SNMP event handling to integrate OmniCast with standard network management platforms.

"There are literally millions of underserved branch facilities in the corporate and government landscape today, starving starve  
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1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.

2. Informal To be hungry.

3. To suffer from deprivation.
 for video, rich media and simple software update solutions. OmniCast 3.0 is the simplest and most cost-effective way to empower scalable edge data delivery and high performance application access at those locations," said Chris Riegel, 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.  of Stratacache. "Many of our customers are finding that with OmniCast, they can leverage their existing IT fabric to enable effective global data synchronization Keeping data in two or more computers up-to-date so that each repository contains the identical information. Data in handheld devices and laptops often require synchronization with the data in a desktop machine or server.  and higher performance for all key applications."

About Stratacache

Stratacache is the world leader in efficient, scalable and cost effective content distribution and application acceleration solutions for highly distributed, network connected organizations. Serving Global 2000 customers and mid-tier organizations in the retail, finance, service, manufacturing and government markets worldwide, Stratacache's products transparently solve large-scale content distribution and application performance challenges while immediately providing tangible return-on-investment and dramatically improved user satisfaction. Stratacache is based in Dayton, Ohio USA and is privately held. For more information please visit www.stratacache.com or e-mail info@stratacache.com
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