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DataDirect Networks Demonstrates Storage Platform Capable of Streaming Multiple, Real-Time Uncompressed 4K Content (22/5/2008)

DataDirect Networks, Inc., the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world-including more than 400 broadcasters and post production facilities globally-today announced that it is the first company to enable end-users to stream multiple, uncompressed, real-time 4K content streams from a single, integrated storage platform. This enables multiple artists and editors to work from a single, centralized storage platform to perform real-time operations such as ingest, color grading, dust removal and scaling, simultaneously.

Comparative offerings require multiple, isolated and externally striped storage systems and a complex array of switches to deliver these capabilities-posing issues such as key frame drops and content degradation. DataDirect Networks provides an integrated storage appliance complete with switching, RAID and caching built-in, including real-time parity algorithms and Reed-Solomon Parallel RAID processing, ensuring extreme data integrity, massive throughput and scalable capacity.

"4K content is here now and only DataDirect Networks enables customers to stream such massive content from such a small footprint," said Scott Genereux, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Marketing & Support, DataDirect Networks.

Genereux added, "With DataDirect Networks S2A9900 extreme storage platform, customers can purchase fewer systems, fewer switches and utilize significantly less floor space, thereby lowering their capital and operational investments in their broadcast, post production and digital intermediate infrastructure. Additionally, companies can take on an increasing amount of projects and, most importantly, accelerate overall business productivity."

S2A9900 Global Sales Momentum The Company also reported that the recently introduced S2A9900 StorageScaler(tm)-the pinnacle of DataDirect Networks S2A technology and the core of its 2008 NAB Show 4K content streaming demonstration-is experiencing rapid sales growth across the markets that the Company currently serves. Customer demand for the extreme storage platform-capable of delivering up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput in a cluster formation and streaming a multitude of 4K streams concurrently-has enabled the product to ascend on a rapid sales trajectory that the company expects will contribute materially to DataDirect Networks' 2008 business performance.

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