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To: Puna who wrote (2017)	7/24/2000 4:46:03 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2283

Most of the problems are simply those of perception. The media refers to ADIC as a "tape" company and views the company in this context. If you look at the latest press release, ADIC's product is used to maximize and unlock the potentials of a SAN environment. This is a BIG difference from a company who's only focus is to keep a backup tape database. Who should we believe? Digital FilmWorks Uses ADIC SAN File System for Collaborative Workflow: A Case Study REDMOND, Wash., Jul 19, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Digital FilmWorks, a leading producer of motion picture digital effects, uses ADIC's CentraVision file system to manage its Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) and give itself a competitive edge. When it can take more than 2.4GB of data to represent a single second of film footage, it's easy to see why storage management is a business-critical task for anyone in the world of digital editing. At Digital FilmWorks (DFW), serverless SAN technology dramatically reduces the time needed to process data, giving the company an advantage in a highly competitive field. "In some ways, digital effects work faces the same problems as any business with large amounts of data that needs to be shared between different users" explains Peter W. Moyer, DFW's president. "We just see bigger files and more time pressure. In a simple effects workflow sequence, a single frame -- up to 100 MB -- might need to be used four times. One workstation cleans up the image. A second might use the frame as a reference to create a new digital image that will be added to it -- a futuristic car, for example. A third might lift an image from the master and alter it for use somewhere else. And a fourth would assemble all the pieces into a final composite. All of them need access to that image." "In the days before SANs and CentraVision, we copied stuff like crazy and carried it between workstations on tape," Moyer explains, "and that's how most people still do it -- standard networks don't have the bandwidth to move that kind of data around. The problem is that it takes forever and people spend too much time waiting for their turn." The SAN that DFW installed over a year ago dramatically altered the workflow sequence. Now, a single digital file is stored on a Fibre Channel disc on a high-bandwidth SAN. Workstations, each with the CentraVision distributed SAN file system installed, access the data over the SAN rather than working on copies. "Each workstation directly accesses the data at local disk speed, and with CentraVision, we have true data sharing," Moyer explains. "Several workstations -- even running on different operating systems -- can use the same file at the same time. It eliminates the waiting and slashes the amount of time a job takes. When revisions are needed, we can often make the changes while the client is in the studio, something we never could have done with the old system....