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Terrablock
Multiple Windows and Mac OSX clients may simultaneously write to a virtual volume without any third party software. Content updates occur in real time. The TerraBlock achieves this with no per seat licensing, external metadata controllers or complex networking.
The TerraBlock's versatility offers both Fibre channel and Ethernet Connectivity. The TerraBlock's Ethernet option is the optimal solution for low bandwidth or high client count environments. Facilities that require high bandwidth can make use of the standard 8Gb Fibre connectivity available on the TerraBlock. Clients may direct connect to the TerraBlock without the use of a Fibre channel switch. Both the Ethernet and Fibre clients can access the same Multi Write volume at the same time.
The TerraBlock is the only shared storage solution that allows you to dynamically change volumes based on your needs. You can change a volume from Single User write to Multi User write and back with a click of a button. Any volume can be assigned Read Only permissions to avoid accidental writes or deletions. The TerraBlock can easily be configured to optimize your workflow.
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Xsan 2.2
Share terabytes of data over an ultrafast Fibre Channel network with Xsan 2. This easy-to-use, enterprise-class, high-performance storage area network (SAN) file system for Mac OS X enables you to share one or more RAID devices with multiple servers or workstations.
Combining enhanced performance with Apple’s legendary ease of use, Xsan 2 makes it easier for first-time users to quickly set up and deploy a SAN. It also introduces MultiSAN, which allows users on a single workstation to access multiple SANs at the same time. Xsan 2 is fully integrated with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server and is qualified to work with third-party RAID storage hardware.
The SAN file system for Mac OS X
Xsan is a powerful and scalable solution for storage consolidation, enabling businesses to reduce data duplication and more efficiently use and share data in demanding IT data centers, video post-production, and television broadcast workflows.
Top New Features in Xsan 2
Xsan 2 makes it easier for first-time users to quickly set up and deploy a SAN. And the completely redesigned administration application simplifies day-to-day SAN administration.
Now a single workstation or server can access Xsan volumes simultaneously. MultiSAN is ideal for users who need to access multiple Xsan volumes from the same workstation or server.
Support for Spotlight, Cover Flow, and Quick Look in Mac OS X makes it easy for users to find and access content on your SAN volumes.
Mac OS X Server features such as Mail Server and Podcast Producer integrate with Xsan 2 to support clustered file systems and improve performance and scalability.
Xsan 2 is qualified to support RAID storage hardware including Xserve RAID and the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID Subsystem.
Active Storage
ActiveRAID
The ActiveRAID is designed for Enterprise class 24/7, 365 day deployments and the severe-duty cycles of Post-Product and Broadcast environments. It is highly optimized for Apple Xsan, Quantum StorNext and Mac OS X Server applications delivering the highest throughput and reliability under severe use conditions.
The Active Storage ActiveRAID provides the highest level of performance, reliability and scalability in its class.
OVERVIEW
The ActiveRAID delivers high-performance, high-availability, massive capacity, and the first native Mac OS X storage management suite.
Developed with one goal in mind, to deliver the best overall experience for media professionals – performance, reliability, capacity, and out of the box ease of use. The ActiveRAID represents an evolution in storage for media professionals.
From the highly redundant architecture to the artfully designed enclosure, the ActiveRAID is a truly differentiated RAID system with the styling and performance that media professionals and Apple users demand. Whether deployed in a direct-attached server environment or a complex Media SAN configuration, the Active Storage ActiveRAID is the ideal solution to your storage needs.
The system is fully configured and ready to use out of the box. Simply install it into your equipment rack, attach power, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel cables. Power it on and walk to your Mac or PC. Insert the Active Admin CD and discover the newly installed RAID through Bonjour on your Mac or select the ID on your Windows PC. Select your environment, name the system, and you are ready to go!
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Active Storage
ActiveRAID ES / Storage for Apple users
The ES is based on the original ActiveRAID and provides the same ease of deployment and management, but is better suited to non-24/7, 365-day small and medium business class or university deployments using Mac OS X Server.
Perfect for Wiki, Calendar, Email, iChat, file or Web serving applications, it is also ideal for disk-to-disk back up and archive of critical data.
INTRODUCING THE ACTIVERAID ES
The ActiveRAID ES is the affordable high performance RAID storage solution for Apple® users. Active Storage designed ActiveRAID ES using the same principles of the original ActiveRAID, while achieving a previously unobtainable level of value by providing the capabilities of the ActiveRAID in a lower cost configuration that does not sacrifice the performance, reliability or ease of management. The ActiveRAID ES was carefully designed for use in business critical applications where organizations require a high level of data integrity with ease of installation and management, but not the 24/7 365 day duty cycles of a large enterprise or Post-production or Broadcast facility.
The ActiveRAID ES provides redundant power, redundant cooling and redundant Fibre Channel connections, and the same powerful, yet easy to use management suite of the original ActiveRAID. The ES differs from the original ActiveRAID in that it has a single high performance RAID controller and uses business class hard drives with a smaller cache size. This results in a very robust RAID solution ideal for business class applications.
Performance of the ActiveRAID ES is an impressive 800MB/s throughput and will easily handle most Mac OS X Server applications. The ActiveRAID ES is the ideal storage for business class applications such as File serving, database services, web hosting, calendar, Wiki, Mail, iChat and much more. The ActiveRAID ES is also ideal as archive storage device for near-line and Disk-to- Disk backup of the ActiveRAID or other Enterprise Class storage. Its speed and ease of management make it the perfect choice in tiered storage environments.
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Promise
VTrak E-Class RAID
The PROMISE VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is a High Availability (HA) RAID solution developed to meet the needs of mission critical enterprise and power today’s demanding video workflows. At the heart of the PROMISE VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is a mature RAID engine developed over the course of two decades and four generations of code that delivers cutting-edge performance and data integrity features rivaling any competitor.
VTrak E-Class truly shines in video environments by delivering consistent low latency performance without dropping frames. Used with Xsan in film and video postproduction, VTrak E-Class can help increase user productivity by providing scalable performance and massive capacity to support today’s demanding video workflows.
In a data center, where a single VTrak E-Class may serve multiple host computers simultaneously, it can deliver up to 1400MB/sec of proven read performance and 600MB/sec of write performance. Combined with Xsan, the solution can share multiple VTrak storage volumes over a high-speed Fibre Channel network providing for scalable performance as storage is added.
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Promise
SmartStor
The PROMISE SmartStor DS4600 is a complete 4-bay Firewire/USB/eSATA RAID solution equipped with four 1TB 7200-rpm SATA drives and powerful hardware RAID engine for small servers, creative pro workstations, power users and consumers that need blazing fast external storage, increased data capacity and robust data protection.
Requires “zero” configuration out of the box. Simply unpack, connect power cable and Firewire 800 cable (or cable of your choice) and you are ready to store data and perform backups via Time Machine. Managing the DS4600 is just as “simple” with SmartNAVI Management software for Mac OS X. SmartNAVI has been redesigned to provide the “look and feel” Mac OS X users expect from a graphical user interface.
Digital Media consumes our lives. You need safe, reliable and fast external storage to protect your music, photos and videos. The DS4600 can also provide massive storage space for popular Mac OS X applications such as Garageband, iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie. Backup your invaluable digital media and also your entire computer to the DS4600 with Time Machine.
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QLogic
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From the largest enterprise datacenter to the smallest home business, QLogic offers SAN connectivity to meet the needs of any IT environment. Each QLogic SAN switch comes pre-loaded with all the management tools required to easily connect servers to storage, maximizing the return on both your server and storage investments. |
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| 8Gb / 4Gb / 10Gb | 16 - 256 (dual chassis) | Modular chassis | 4U per chassis | QLogic 9000 | ||||||||||
| 8Gb / 10 or 20Gb | 20 device, 4 stacking | Stackable | 1U | QLogic 5800 | ||||||||||
| 4Gb / 10Gb | 16 device, 4 stacking | Stackable | 1U | QLogic 5600 | ||||||||||
| 8Gb | 8 | Full-rack width | 1U | QLogic 3800 | ||||||||||
| 4Gb | 10 | Half-rack width | 1U | QLogic 1400 |
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QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters offer best-in-class SAN performance and functionality - plus the convenience of a single driver per OS for all 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb adapters. Select a model below for detailed product information. |
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metaSAN
Share rich media in a high-speed, cross-platform SAN
metaSAN is a high-speed file sharing Storage Area Network (SAN) management software that sets new standards for cross-platform workgroup collaboration. metaSAN enables multiple users to share access to common data files in workgroups where heavy bandwidth requirements are the norm. With metaSAN, film and video editors, digital artists, healthcare specialists, and corporate users can simultaneously access a common pool of data files such as video clips, databases, satellite imagery, medical archives, or CAD files - as easily and transparently as if the content was stored on their local drive.
Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, metaSAN innovates with true file sharing, native OS file system and access rights management, virtualization for Avid®, dynamic metadata master arbitration model, and seamless integration with LAN networks. These innovations ensure a perfectly transparent and reliable networked shared storage that can fuel the most creative environments in addition to greatly reducing the cost of managing mission-critical resources.
metaSAN's user-friendly file-level sharing capability offers far more flexibility than the more common volume-level based sharing that imposes serious workflow restrictions.
With metaSAN, you manage accesses to your shared storage the same way you normally would for any other local drive. There is no need for special disk formatting or management utilities, or for creating or managing special user accounts. Network administrators simply use standard OS account management tools to grant or deny access to the individual users. For those in mission-critical environment, metaSAN's dynamic metadata master arbitration model provides the failover mechanism that ensures 24/7 operations by eliminating the risks of downtime associated with conventional metadata controller-based architecture.
metaSAN can seamlessly integrate SAN and LAN networks. With the addition of metaLAN, a multi-point gateway software that connects your enterprise LAN with your high-speed SAN, your entire facility can now benefit from many unique SAN advantages.
metaSAN represents a major shift from traditional SAN management software. You can choose the network topology that best suits your needs - SAN for bandwidth and real scalability, LAN for lower cost and ease of deployment, or a combination of both! You then choose the building blocks that deliver the performance and scalability you need - Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, and even iSCSI. metaSAN supports the leading vendors of storage and networking technology including Apple, Archion, ADTX, Atto, Brocade, D-Link, Enhance Technology, IBM, Infortrend, Emulex, LSI, Proavio, Qlogic, Seagate, and Xyratex.
The Tiger Technology software turns these off-the-shelf storage and networking components into a high-performance workgroup. metaSAN is fully transparent and compatible with standard applications, Adobe Production Studio and Apple Final Cut Pro. In addition, metaSAN enables efficient collaboration among multiple users of Avid® editing software on the same volume.
Studio Network Solutions
Evo version 2.1 – Now Available
Evo™ – the latest advancement in complete, shared storage solutions for video and audio workgroups. Evo enables everyone on your team to share projects, media and other large files using the most extensive connectivity options available in a single product – including 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel and up to 10 Gb/s iSCSI and NAS.
File-Level and Volume-Level Sharing
Developed specifically for post production workgroups, Evo offers a huge advantage in terms of connectivity and upgradeability – since it integrates a NAS and a SAN into one system, you get the benefits of both file-sharing and volume-locking. By including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS into a single product, Evo assures that creative workgroups will have the best tool for every aspect of a project.
- 1 Gb/s, 4 Gb/s and up to 10 Gb/s Host Connect
- Up to 8 Direct-connect Fibre Channel Ports
- Up to 6 Direct-connect Ethernet Ports
- Up to 64 Terabytes
- File Level Access
- Volume Level Access
- User-defined RAID 0, 5 or 10 per volume
- Supports up to 2K video
- Supports full track count with Pro Tools
- Compatible with SANmp, Xsan/StorNext and metaSAN
Evo is designed for online, real-time use with leading applications such as Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro and Pro Tools.
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Studio Network Solutions
Ellipse™ 4-Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
The Ellipse Fibre Channel HBA for Mac OS X is engineered, tested and optimized for the most throughput-intensive video and audio applications. It offers the ability to effortlessly handle uncompressed HD and up to 4K resolution.
The difference is the Ellipse driver. Advanced read-ahead and write caching actively minimize dips and spikes in the data stream to enhance the performance of your storage system.
Whether you're upgrading, adding more workstations or installing a new SAN, the Ellipse HBA delivers the performance you demand – at a price that will save you money.
Ellipse/SANmp bundle
The Ellipse HBA and SANmp are the perfect match for your storage system.
– our easy-to-use software for Mac/PC – that can have all of your users up and sharing your new storage system in under an hour!
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Studio Network Solutions
SANmp® – Fibre and iSCSI SAN sharing software
Superior performance, versatility and ease-of-use
SANmp enables your computers to concurrently share massive amounts of data over high-speed Fibre and iSCSI Storage Networks. What makes SANmp management software unique is that it enables all of your users to easily share their projects and huge media files on a Storage Area Network. The result? A dramatically increased workflow since all users can capture, record and edit directly onto the storage system in real-time – eliminating the need to copy files locally.
No servers. No metadata controllers. No IT staff.
SANmp requires no server or metadata controller, which makes it a perfect choice for companies without an IT department. Simply install SANmp and within minutes you can be safely sharing all of your Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage.
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Introducing V.3.1, Now Available
The latest version of SANmp for Mac and Windows is now released, and it includes many great new features! This is a free upgrade for all existing users. Upgrade Now!
Archion
The Archion™ Technology storage solutions are all designed for post production and graphical design requirements, including DI (2K, 4K) and uncompressed HD workflows. Ranging from completely integrated, full featured storage area network (SAN) solutions to highly compatible, uniquely intelligent, add-on RAID storage systems for other popular SANs, Archion™ has an advanced solution to meet your growing needs. All Archion™ storage solutions are powered by the award winning Vdisk™ technology for a more flexible and scalable experience.
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COMPLETE STORAGE AREA NETWORK (SAN) SOLUTIONS These high-performance, RAID protected storage area network (SAN) solutions are uniquely capable of supporting cross platforms, file level locking, DI (2K and 4K) and uncompressed HD workflows. |
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There RAID storage systems are designed to enhance other popular SANs, such as Avid's Unity and Apple's XSAN/XSAN2, Tiger Technologies MetaSAN, Quantum's Stornext and others. |
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DIGITAL INTERMEDIARY (DI) STORAGE SOLUTIONS These powerful RAID storage systems are designed for Digital Intermediary and other high bandwidth applications. Built with Fibre Channel infrastructure, all systems are ready to be networked. |
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