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New
product line expands company's leadership
in real-time storage systems for professional
content creators
 Tewksbury,
Mass. - February 28, 2006 - Avid Technology
today unveiled the Avid VideoRAID family
of storage systems that deliver up to
5 terabytes (TB) of high-efficiency storage
with guaranteed real-time access for multi-stream,
high-bandwidth standard-definition (SD)
and high-definition (HD) workflows. Unlike
other competitive RAID products that suspend
performance in the event of a drive failure,
the new Avid VideoRAID line delivers uninterrupted
real-time performance, even during a drive
rebuild. The new systems - the Avid VideoRAID
RTR320 and RTR320X - are the first in
a series of low-cost parity RAID storage
products that Avid plans to introduce
as a result of acquiring Medéa
Corporation in January of 2006. While
terms of the acquisition were not disclosed,
the deal further expands Avid's position
as a leading provider of high-performance
storage solutions for content creators
in film, video, audio, broadcast, and
animation.
"Avid's
storage products are recognized industry-wide
for their guaranteed real-time performance
capabilities. With Medéa's low-cost
RAID offerings in our portfolio, we now
have a tremendously compelling entry point
to the Avid family of storage solutions,"
said Chas Smith, vice president and general
manager of Avid's Video division. "Avid
has an extremely diverse mix of customers,
all of whom work within different production
environments and have unique storage demands.
Now, Avid can meet the needs of virtually
any professional in the industry - with
cost-effective RAID storage for standalone
editing and finishing systems, facility-class
Ethernet or Fibre Channel shared-storage
systems for networked collaboration, and
enterprise-class shared-storage with distributed
intelligence and unlimited scalability."
Martin
Bock, former president of Medéa
and recently appointed vice president
of business development for the Medéa
product family at Avid, said, "Our
VideoRAID products have had great success
in the market because of the unmatched
resiliency of our parity RAID technology
and the real-time, high-bandwidth performance
that enables completion of multi-stream
SD and HD projects in record time. When
compared to competitive RAID solutions,
customers will find that Avid VideoRAID
systems deliver superior performance at
a lower price per gigabyte."
The
Avid VideoRAID product line leverages
the combined bandwidth of multiple drives
- with capacity of either 250GB or 500GB
per drive - in storage arrays that provide
real-time access to SD and HD media assets.
The VideoRAID RTR320 and RTR320X systems
are built around five-drive and 10-drive
storage arrays, respectively, with one
of every five drives functioning as a
parity drive to deliver extremely robust
data protection without interrupting performance
during drive rebuilds. The line, which
comes in a range of configurations at
low-cost price points, is qualified on
the following Avid editing systems: Avid
Liquid™ Chrome HD; Avid Liquid Pro;
Avid Xpress® Pro; Avid Xpress Studio;
NewsCutter® XP (with or without Avid
Mojo®); Media Composer® Adrenaline™
and Media Composer Adrenaline HD; NewsCutter
Adrenaline; Avid DS Nitris®; and Avid
Symphony™ Nitris.
Specific
features of the VideoRAID RTR320 and RTR320X
systems include:
- Guaranteed
real-time performance and availability
(even during drive rebuild);
- Scalable
storage capacity ranging from 1.25TB
to 5TB;
- An
Ultra320 LVD SCSI, 68-pin VHDCI connection
(dual channel for RTR320X);
- Single
or dual Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller(s);
- Single
or dual 250-watt power supply module(s);
- Hot
swappable drive modules; and
- Support
for up to four RTR320 or two RTR320X
units for a maximum 10 TB of raw storage
per Avid-qualified workstation.
About
Avid Technology, Inc.
Avid
Technology, Inc. is the world leader in
digital nonlinear media creation, management,
and distribution solutions, enabling film,
video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast
professionals to work more efficiently,
productively, and creatively. For more
information about the company's Oscar®,
Grammy®, and Emmy® award-winning
products and services, contact
your CEV
representative.
©
2006 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights
reserved. Product features, specifications,
system requirements, and availability
are subject to change without notice.
Avid, Digidesign, Film Composer, Media
Composer, Pro Tools, Avid Liquid, Avid
Xpress, Newscutter, Avid Mojo, Adrenaline,
Nitris, Symphony, and VideoRAID are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of
Avid Technology, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries
in the United States and/or other countries.
Avid received an Oscar statuette representing
the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award
for the concept, design, and engineering
of the Avid Film Composer® system
for motion picture editing. Digidesign,
Avid's audio division, received an Oscar
statuette representing the 2003 Scientific
and Technical Award for the design, development,
and implementation of its Pro Tools®
digital audio workstation. Oscar is a
trademark and service mark of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Emmy
is a registered trademark of ATAS/NATAS.
Grammy is a trademark of the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
Inc. Believe it or not, all other trademarks
contained herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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