What the duck, I'll reply to myself:
Edward Bramson, Ampex's Chief Executive Officer, stated: "MicroNet represents the first step in Ampex's recently announced strategy to expand its technology base in electronic image processing and storage by acquiring businesses that address these markets. MicroNet has developed some interesting new products that extend beyond their current disk array base, and these products, which support both UNIX and Windows NT, are a major reason for our interest in MicroNet. We continue to look at other acquisition opportunities that could be synergistic with Ampex and MicroNet." he added.
I've highlighted the above statement for an obvious reason. This is some pretty high-performance, highly reliable stuff - I'd like to see how they will "extend beyond" this product:
The DataDock family of products is aimed at Pre-press/Publishing and Digital Audio/Video storage. The DataDock family of transportable drive systems consists of high performance disk arrays, hard drives, DAT, AIT, optical, CD recorders and CD-ROM devices. DataDock's award-winning technology is ideally suited for use in Digital Imaging where workflow and ROI go hand-in-hand, as well as in the emerging Digital market, where rapidly moving gigabytes of storage is commonplace.
The award-winning DataDock 7000 data storage solution provides dramatically-improved performance, scalability and reliability for mission-critical server applications such as video, OPI, File and the Internet/Intranet. DataDock 7000 offers RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5 and 0+1, with transfer rates up to 40 MB/sec. Optimized configurations and multiple RAID levels ensure the highest performance and fault-tolerance in the most demanding applications. DataDock 7000's redundant components enhance DataDock 7000's reliability to preserve data integrity. This increased data security allows DataDock 7000 to provide nonstop operation even in the event of a component failure. DataDock 7000 provides unmatched flexibility by utilizing hot-swappable modules including hard drives, DAT, AIT, and magneto optical. Each seven-drive enclosure can handle up to 108 GB of data storage plus a global hot-spare drive.
Check out the product specs - micronet.com
Cooling fans, power supplies are monitored for failure. I think it can even call your pager in the event of failure or even for status on the system. 128 MB disk cache with battery backup. They can be chained together to provide over a terabyte of storage.
Look who needs help:
Digital Video Product Manager
Currently seeking a Product Manager for digital video storage systems. This position reports directly to the Vice President of Engineering, and is responsible for integration and qualification of MicroNet storage and third party hardware and software.
...The ideal candidate will posses a good working knowledge of Media 100, MicroSphere, MacOS, Windows NT, and SCSI peripherals. An engineering degree with 5 years experience in project management or test engineering is required.
Perhaps these companies: Media 100 & MicroSphere will yield more clues.
Again I ask, why the need for a product in-between performance of the DST and this DataDock 7000? Is there a gaping hole there? |
