Tuesday April 20, 10:59 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SANergy SAN-O/S Running On More Than Seventy
Video Workstations At NAB Via The SANaganza
Thirteen video equipment manufacturers and thirty Fibre Channel SAN equipment manufacturers
cooperate to build eighteen SANs around the show using SANergy.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 1999-- At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show here on
April 19-22, SANergy software from Mercury Computer Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY - news) is being used on more than
seventy video workstations throughout the show. In participation with the ''SANaganza'' sponsored by the Fibre Channel
Community, Mercury has provided SANergy software and SAN configuration expertise to enable the construction of eighteen
SANs in as many different company's booths around the show.
SANergy is enabling file sharing between workstations running applications from thirteen different video equipment
manufacturers representing a broad slice of creation tools for the video industry. Included are eight different brands of
non-linear digital video editors, a digital audio editor, three special-effects creation and compositing tools, one DVD authoring
tool, and six different brands of a new class of product called Video SAN Recorders (VSRs). Anybody know what these things are>
SANergy is enabling SANs in 18 booths around the NAB show with mixes of workstations using Sun Solaris(tm), SGI
IRIX®, Windows NT®, and/or Mac®OS operating systems. These SANs are built from a variety of products from thirty
different fibre channel SAN equipment manufacturers, all members of the Fibre Channel Community.
Shipping since February 1999, SANergy 1.5 provides true file-based heterogeneous data sharing among all computers
connected to a storage area network. SANergy works on computers using Sun Solaris(tm), SGI IRIX®, Windows NT®, and
Mac®OS operating systems. With SANergy, every workstation connected to a SAN can use the same files on the same disks
at the same time with no copying or moving of materials and no need for local media storage or servers. SANergy enables
corruption-free data sharing across a SAN with full file-level and byte-range locking. All computer-based video applications
can benefit from SAN-based data sharing using SANergy 1.5. Small-file/small-I/O operations such as highly-compressed
MPEG2 video and digital audio editing applications benefit as much as large-file/large-I/O applications such as uncompressed
video and DTV resolution video creation and manipulation.
''The SANaganza at NAB'99 is an excellent forum to spotlight how SAN technology is changing the world of digital media
production and distribution'' says Barry Burke, vice president of the Shared Storage Business Unit at Mercury. ''The
interoperability of SAN hardware coupled with the heterogeneous data sharing capabilities of SANergy represents a
performance breakthrough that is changing the way people use computers across a variety of applications and industries, as
evidenced by these exciting demonstrations.''
''Storage Area Networks (SANs) are the basis for a new video distribution system,'' says Dimitri Chernyshov, Entertainment
Marketing Manager for Mercury Computer Systems, Inc's Shared Storage Business Unit. ''SANs empower entire teams of
people to focus on the process of creation and creative collaboration rather than the nagging concerns on how to best move
digital materials between workstations.''
SANergy is available from a growing community of more than 50 OEMs, resellers and systems integrators worldwide.
About Mercury
Mercury's Shared Storage Business Unit develops and markets software products that manage the shared access to common
storage in heterogeneous environments. SSBU products support high-performance/high-throughput I/O environments such as
digital video, digital prepress, and enterprise computing.
Other business units of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY - news) produce high-performance image and
digital signal computer systems that transform sensor data to information for analysis and interpretation on a real-time basis.
Visit Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. on the WWW: mc.com.
For more information on SANergy, visit sanergy.com.
SANergy is a trademark of Mercury Computer System |
