DataDirect Networks Technology Partners Infrastructure Storage Software Digital Media Applications Storage Technology Partners Fujitsu Hitachi Sanmina Seagate Xyratex Storage Networking Partners Brocade Cisco Systems Emulex Qlogic Voltaire   Storage Software Partners File Systems Exanet HP Polyserve IBM GPFS iBrix Quantum StorNext SGI CXFS Storage Applications Falconstor Single Instance Repository Falconstor VTL Quantum Storage Manager SGI DMF Symantec NetBackup Tivoli Storage Manager   Digital Media Application Partners Apple ASSIMILATE Aspera Inc. Canopus Dayang InfoValue Computing Matrox Video Products Group Media Power Pinnacle Systems Quantel Real Networks Sobey Digital Technology Sony Telestream Thomson TWI Interactive Industry Associations     Open Fabrics Alliance SNIA

 

Storage Technology Partners:

 

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused information technology and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position us to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for our customers' success. 

 

Hitachi, Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company, with approximately 347,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2004 (ended March 31, 2005) consolidated sales totaled 9,027.0 billion yen ($84.4 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors, including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. Hitachi, Ltd. has 985 subsidiaries, including 486 overseas companies.

 

Sanmina-SCI is a leading EMS provider focused on delivering complete end-to-end manufacturing capabilities and highly complex solutions to technology companies around the world.  

Seagate is the world's leading provider of storage technology for Internet, business and consumer applications. The Company's products include disc drives for the Enterprise, PCs and Consumer Electronics, as well as Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions and Server Appliances. Seagate's market leadership is based on delivering award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage.

 

Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and network technology. Building on over 20 years of research and development experience in disk drive development, storage systems and high-speed communication protocols, we design and manufacture enabling technology that provides our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and disk drive manufacturer customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. 

 

Storage Networking Partners:

Brocade Communications Systems - The Brocade SilkWorm® family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks around the world. Cisco provides the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses, or around the world.

Emulex Corporation is a leading supplier and developer of storage and server networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. Storage networks provide data centers with high-speed, scalable, and highly available storage access. Server networks enable the creation of high-performance server clusters for database and transaction processing. Emulex's product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership.

QLogic is a leading supplier of high-performance networking solutions. The company produces the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage and HPC networks for Global 2000 corporations. QLogic delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes adapters, switches and management tools for a variety of network topologies including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand. QLogic products power solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems, and are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world by a global community of OEM and channel partners.

Voltaire provides grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. The company focuses on improving data center efficiency by enabling grid computing deployments on commodity server and storage offerings. Voltaire's fully integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the highest performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. ??Voltaire solutions are used for high performance computing (HPC) applications and grid computing environments in enterprise data centers and by government and research institutions.

 

 

Storage Software Partners:

 

 

HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies.

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.

IBRIX delivers increased application performance to enterprise computing environments utilizing a unique, software-based parallel file system solution. Its patented Segmented File System TM is the basis for IBRIX Fusion TM, a suite of software products that comprise the most scalable, economical, multi-purpose file system solution available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise computing environments. IBRIX Fusion simplifies management, delivers maximum flexibility, and reduces total cost of ownership. The IBRIX Fusion Software Suite is available through leading OEMs.

Exanet’s clustered NAS solution, ExaStore – ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management), delivers a new data storage paradigm to address the trends that are driving the future of data centers: virtualization, standardized hardware, and applications demanding the most extreme standards of performance, availability and scalability. Exanet’s enterprise-class search solution, ExaSearch, is designed to integrate with ExaStore – ICM. 

Exanet’s software-based open architecture delivers the best price/performance ratio in the industry, dramatically increased utilization and, for the first time, offers a no end-of-life storage solution. ExaStore – ICM has been adopted by customers ranging from traditional enterprises such as manufacturing and graphic arts to next generation ventures including telecoms, active archiving, digital broadcasting, video surveillance and storage service providers, with well over 3 PB of content managed by Exanet software. 

With headquarters in Israel, US headquarters in New York and offices in Europe and the Pacific Rim, Exanet sells its flagship ExaStore – ICM solution and its ExaSearch enterprise-class search engine through its channel partners worldwide.

FalconStor Software, Inc. is the premier developer of proven data protection solutions that optimize data center efficiency and business continuity for all IT infrastructures. The company’s award-winning storage virtualization, continuous data protection (CDP), disaster recovery, and virtual tape library (VTL) solutions integrate seamlessly to ensure rapid data recovery and simplified storage management. Its products are available from major OEMs, system integrators, and resellers, and are deployed worldwide by governments, educational institutions, and Fortune 1000 enterprises across industries including aerospace, energy production, financial services, healthcare, law, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

Quantum Corporation develops the StorNext® data management software suite. StorNext software lets customers share data faster and store more at a lower cost. Proven in the world's most demanding environments, StorNext sets the standard for high performance workflow operations and scalable data retention. StorNext lets users process, store, and access key digital assets from a shared storage pool extensible to multiple storage tiers.

SGI , also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users.

Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in 40 countries.

 

 

Tivoli Storage Manager can help reduce the risks associated with data loss while helping to reduce complexity, manage costs and address compliance with regulatory data retention requirements. 

 

Digital Media Application Partners:

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.

ASSIMILATE is enabling the DI R-evolution with integrated, real-time, datacentric (for 2K, 4K and beyond) software and solutions for film production. The company is committed to empowering a broad spectrum of creative professionals with state-of-the-art DI solutions that deliver optimal price/performance.

 

Aspera Inc. is a privately held software development company located in Emeryville, CA, creating innovative high-performance bulk data transport technologies. Aspera’s fasp™ 2.0 software transport platform provides maximum speed, complete security, and breakthrough bandwidth control at global distances. With several thousand endpoint and server licenses installed world wide, fasp™ software products are becoming the industry standard for high-speed transfer of digital content in the media and entertainment marketplace, and quickly becoming the technology of choice for large enterprise-wide, Fortune 500 companies. Current customer deployments support transfers between six continents, and the dramatic savings in time, cost, and productivity have resulted in major companies such as Microsoft, Isilon Systems and Hewlett Packard to partner and integrate Aspera software into joint technology solutions. Products include file transfer server/cluster software, desktop and web clients, and complete transfer management applications for centralized scheduling, tracking, bandwidth control, and monitoring, as well as a flexible, open SDK for embedded use. 

Autodesk Media and Entertainment empowers media professionals to realize the visual experience and transform their most evocative and ambitious visions into reality. Our award-winning solutions are designed for digital media creation, management and delivery across all disciplines from film and television visual effects, color grading and editing to animation, game development, Web and design visualization. Autodesk Media and Entertainment - based in Montreal, Quebec - was established in 1999 after Autodesk, Inc acquired Discreet Logic Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix®.

Dayang was founded twelve years ago and is developing hardware and software for CG and NLE use. Dayang's primary market is providing solutions for environments that need high quality equipment that is price sensitive. The CG software is based on our own custom designed boards (DigiTitle) and is compatible with Matrox boards. The NLE software is mainly based on DigiSuite and Genie-DVE. Dayang is OEM for Matrox and Pinnacle, and is the most successful CG and NLE producer in China. Dayang produces a whole family of high quality video products including CG, NLE, Slow Motion, Time Delay, Comprehensive Non-Linear Editing TV Station Network Solution. With eleven years' experience in manufacturing leading video products, we are able to reduce implementation and operating cost without giving up specialized functionality. Dayang products are specially designed for, flexibility, efficiency, stability, and can be tailored to your specific needs.

Canopus designs and markets award-winning digital video and graphics solutions for video professionals and enthusiasts. The company combines innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards in performance, functionality and reliability. Industry leaders worldwide recognize Canopus's advanced HD, HDV, DV and MPEG codec technologies, which are featured in the company's acclaimed video editing solutions, transcoding products and network-based video distribution systems.

Incite Multimedia Corporation designs editing software used by independent editors, post-production facilities and TV broadcasters around the world. Incite's product line offers professional end-to-end solutions to efficiently capture, cut, finish, and deliver high quality video and audio in a collaborative workflow environment. Building on relationships with leading technological partners, Incite Multimedia supplies versatile and scalable products for today's content creators delivering to TV, the web, tape, and DVD.

InfoValue Computing Founded in 1994, InfoValue is the leading provider of comprehensive streaming software that transforms off-the-shelf computers into video on-demand and multicast servers. An industry pioneer, InfoValue is recognized for advancing the video streaming technology that has set the pace in performance, openness, and scalability. InfoValue's QuickVideo Suite is a comprehensive suite of streaming software that is currently being used by corporations, government, educational institutions and telecommunication providers around the world. The QuickVideo Suite offers interactive video-on-demand and video multicast capabilities as well as integrated video indexing, distributed video caching, server clustering and video service management capabilities.

Matrox Video Products Group is a Emmy award-winning technology and market leader in the field of digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, and web streaming applications. Broadcasters and video post-production facilities use Matrox DigiSuite -based acquisition/playout servers and editing/graphics workstations connected via a SAN to build all-digital Networked Broadcast Studios that benefit from complete file format compatibility and true media sharing.

Media Power supplies the global marketplace with world-class, innovative digital television solutions. The company is specialized in digital video integration in multi-vendor and multi-protocol environment. Media Power offers expertise in management, technical and information services to digital networks, television providers, and production studios. The company operates globally, with numerous sales and service facilities throughout Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Pinnacle Systems provides digital video solutions that help its customers communicate and connect more effectively. From beginner to broadcast, the Company targets distinct sets of customers with audio and video hardware and software to create, enhance and share video.

Quantel is dedicated to creating new tools for the new digital age, covering everything from terrestrial and satellite television to broadband internet, DVD and d-cinema. Quantel’s generationQ is a radical, all-encompassing, new concept that offers total scalability in both hardware and software across post production, graphics and broadcast for multiple resolution, team-working production environments. generationQ for post and graphics comprises: iQ for digital intermediate; eQ resolution co-existent HD editor; QEdit Pro mainstream editor; gQ resolution co-existent graphics platform; QEffects and QPaintbox software for the PC, offering the same tools and the same interface as iQ/eQ and gQ respectively.

RealNetworks is the global leader in Internet media delivery. It develops and markets software products and services designed to enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web.

Sobey Digital Technology Company is a privately held Chinese company providing storage solutions and networked video systems to the Chinese Video and Broadcasting marketplace. The company is the largest video, multimedia, and video integration supplier in China with over 400 employees and has deployed over 150 storage area networks that include CG, Nonlinear Editing, Virtual Set, Video Server and News/Post-production Systems.

Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.

Telestream and its award-winning Flipware(tm) infrastructure products simplify encoding and delivery of streaming media and broadcast-quality video via the Internet. Telestream's MPEG appliances and automation software eliminate today's time-consuming, manual process of media acquisition, encoding and delivery to servers. Telestream's FlipFactory transcoding automation products provide file format independence and universal media exchange between DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliance, streaming servers, broadcast servers, edit stations and other systems. Simple, fast and reliable are reasons why CNN, NBC, Time Warner and other high-profile media companies rely on Telestream technology. Located in the "video valley" region of Nevada City, California, Telestream is privately held and managed by a team of seasoned video experts.

Thomson provides end-to-end solutions (technologies, equipment and services) to the entertainment industries. To advance and enable the digital media transition, Thomson has four principal divisions: Content and Networks, Consumer Products, Components, and Licensing. The company distributes its products under the Technicolor, Grass Valley, THOMSON and RCA brand names.

TWI Interactive, Inc. is the digital media and technology arm of IMG, the world's premier sports & entertainment marketing and management agency and TWI, the largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming.

As a global leader in delivering new media services to the world of sport and entertainment, TWIi leverages this experience by providing solutions that enable the acquisition, management, production and distribution of traditional and digital media, from multiple sources to multiple output platforms including Internet, mobile/wireless platforms, interactive TV and television.

 

 

Industry Associations:

OpenFabrics Alliance develops transport agnostic open source software for RDMA fabric technologies. Founded in June 2004 as the OpenIB Alliance to develop a Linux-based InfiniBand software stack, the organization has expanded its charter to support iWARP (RDMA over Ethernet). The OpenFabrics Alliance provides tools, communications and resources for vendors and developers to create, refine and publish standard open source software stacks for RDMA capable data center fabrics.

 

DataDirect Networks is a Corporate Member of the OpenFabrics Alliance.