Walt,
Here's some major, minor news on DVD RAM :
Cygnet and Macpeak Team to Provide Macintosh Users and Networks with DVD-Ram Storage for Digital Asset Management...
Business Wire
09-APR-99
MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 1999-- Latest Version of MacJuke Now Includes Support
for Cygnet's Family of DVD-RAM Jukeboxes Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. and MacPEAK Ltd., are pleased to announce that Cygnet's DVD-RAM jukeboxes are now fully supported by MacPEAK's software, MacJuke, a complete management package for Mac clients.
Powered by MacPEAK's versatile software, Cygnet's DVD-RAM jukeboxes write to DVD-RAM media and allow access to CD media of all formats including Apple HFS and HFS Extended. DVD-RAM media, the rewritable DVD format, can also be written inside Cygnet's DVD 100 or InfiniDVD libraries enabling easy and safe backups at any time. The robust features of MacJuke include the spanning of multiple DVD-RAM media to create large Apple HFS Extended volumes that can accommodate huge files required by publishing and prepress applications. Managed by MacJuke, the DVD 100, for instance, can be made to appear as one 260 GB volume (2.6GB x 100).
Additionally, users will be largely benefited by MacJuke's fully featured cataloger that helps them locate files easily and fast, even on media no longer contained in the jukebox. MacJuke also interfaces smoothly with third party database software such as Canto Cumulus bringing the requested information located in the jukebox on the client's desktop at the click of a button. Overall access time is reduced through MacJuke's directory caching that stores the media directory information on the internal startup disk to speed up all searches and finds. All of the AppleShare security privileges are maintained and system administrators have comprehensive control of the jukebox.
"The newly added DVD-RAM support from MacPEAK makes Cygnet's DVD 100 and InfiniDVD the most desirable tools for Mac users working in particular with publishing and prepress applications," commented Wayne Augsburger, vice-president of sales and marketing CD/DVD with Cygnet. "Not only have Mac clients now access to the cutting edge advantages of DVD-RAM technology but when acquiring a DVD 100 or InfiniDVD with MacJuke software users will get the benefits of a CD and an MO jukebox in one. We are confident that the storage and archival solution offered by Cygnet's DVD-RAM jukeboxes with the multifeatured MacJuke software will revolutionize the workflow of publishing, pre-press, design and production businesses resulting in better efficiencies and higher profits."
"MacJuke software brings DVD-RAM technology and Cygnet's DVD-RAM jukeboxes into the Mac world," said Gordon Brown, president of MacPEAK. "It's a simple yet a compellingly powerful product that does not require any special interface for the client, accessing data from the jukebox being as simple as accessing data from any shared disk. Unique and robust, fully supporting UDF, with reading capabilities of all CD flavors and easy writing to DVD-RAM, MacJuke is fully integrated with MacOS and does not need to introduce NT, UNIX or any other operating system outside Mac. Together, Cygnet's DVD-RAM libraries and MacJuke software provide the most efficient and most cost-effective answers to Mac users' storage and archival needs within the Apple environment."
The recommended system requirements for this solution are a PowerMac, running MacOS 8.1 or better and Appleshare 5.0 or better. At least 15MB of RAM are necessary for RAM caching and a startup drive of minimum 2 GB capacity to hold the catalog and provide disk caching.
Flexible, expandable and upgradable, Cygnet's DVD-RAM series jukeboxes offer users unparalleled benefits such as incredible storage volume per footprint, and durable, long-life archival media. With the tower PC-like DVD 100 jukebox, users can create, store, backup, manage and access up to 260 GB for less than four cents per Mbyte. At its maximum capacity, the 19-in. rackmount InfiniDVD provides 1.3 Terabytes of archive or backup storage at 2.5 cents per Mbyte - including media.
DVD-RAM is a fully rewritable high-capacity 120 mm random access media technology compliant with the standards established and approved by the DVD forum. This new high-density optical storage format offers far greater capacity than CD and better performance at a lower cost and has built-in compatibility with previous types of CD-sized media. With files becoming increasingly larger and the spread of multimedia applications, DVD-RAM becomes an ideal format to accommodate the new requirements for secondary and near-line storage, document imaging, publishing, pre-press as well as back-up and archival, offering enhanced storage capacity along with increased data longevity and interchangeability.
Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. is proud to be the choice provider of an increasingly wide array of CD/DVD storage and automated recording solutions, both hardware -- such as CD/DVD jukeboxes, CD autoloading replicators/duplicators, CD towers, network attached storage devices and network servers -- and supporting storage management software for a number of vertical markets including banking, government, healthcare and entertainment. In the field of optical storage, Cygnet's Series 1800 12-in. library has been installed by more imaging and enterprise-class storage end-users than any other large-format optical library.
Headquartered in Milpitas, California, Cygnet markets its products worldwide through partnerships with leading storage, imaging and network solutions providers in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Based in Austin, Texas, and with sales offices worldwide, MacPEAK has been supplying sophisticated mass-storage management products to the Apple Macintosh community since 1989 and is the acknowledged leader in providing total support in reading and writing, CD, CD-R, DVD, DVD-RAM and Magneto-Optical Jukebox and Towers.
Cygnet's World Wide Web Home Page Address: http://www,cygnet.com
MacPEAK's World Wide Web Home Page Address: macpeak.com Infinidisc, InfiniDVD, InfiniWriter, id 100, id 100 Duplicator, Panorama(+), DVD 100 and Cygnet Series 1800 are trademarks of Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. MacJuke is a registered trademark of MacPEAK Developments Limited. All other product names are registered trademarks of their respective owners. * CONTACT: Cygnet Storage Solutions, Inc. |
