"Fast access to and efficient management of data, and hardware, and particularly software innovations, such as Tiger Technology’s metaSAN, are the catalysts for success in today’s collaborative, heavy-bandwidth work environments."

 

Robi Roncarelli, Market Analyst, PIXEL Inc.

"I am giving metaSAN five stars! If I ever end up working in another facility that needs to implement a SAN, I will definitely recommend it. I’d also recommend it to anyone involved in video that needs a file-level sharing SAN."

 

Joe Kirby, Assistant Chief Engineer, FOX 54 – WZDX TV

"With metaSAN/metaLAN in place, every artist has instant access to data by simply clicking on the local hard drive in “My Computer” – and all this without having to perform sophisticated network administration."

 

Alex Rizov, FX Supervisor, Topform Studio

"I recommend metaSAN to anyone investigating a shared storage solution, especially to anyone Final Cut Pro based production house wanting to maximize their multi-station editing workflow."

 

Graeme Nattress, President of Nattress Productions Inc.

"metaSAN is the ideal SAN management solution for Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Gigabit Ethernet networks. So far, we have tested metaSAN with Huge Media-Vault and Fibrenetix Storage systems, Qlogic SANBox switches, and Atto Celerity host bus adapters and have never experienced any compatibility issues."

 

Jörg Hoffman, PSIBER GmbH

"I’m using an HP xw9300 with 4 x SATA2 drives and a Bluefish444 HD Lust board. Whenever trying to capture DPX files, the system would run for 100-250 frames and then drops frames. After installing metaSAN and using DDO and FSO the system can now capture DPX files without any problem!"

 

Gerbrand De Ridder, Trans Tec bv

"Our customers have been clamouring for tools that will help them add intelligence to their workgroups. We are very pleased to be working with Tiger Technology to address this demand."

 

Howard Solomon, President, Integrity Data Systems

"By turning off-the shelf storage and networking components into versatile, easy to support, and highly scalable shared storage workgroups, metaSAN is ideally suited to solve a wide range of workflow configurations at a great price."

 

John Connolly, Midwest Media Group President

"metaSAN’s unique ability to allow multiple cross-platform users to share content and collaborate efficiently while maintaining very high bandwidth will afford us a highly efficient, reliable, centralized and secure storage solution."

 

Michio Fujii, CEO and President, MIC Assosciates, Inc.

Vicom Systems and Tiger Technology Deliver Simplified Storage Management and High Availability No Downtime Storage Access

Creative professionals in the media and entertainment market gain continuous access to video content and enterprise class SAN storage management.

Santa Clara, Calif. – December 1, 2011 – Vicom Systems, a leading provider of transparent wire-speed data services for systems and storage, today announced that Vicom Systems Vmirror™ product has been certified for metaSAN, a high speed file sharing SAN (storage area network) management application from Tiger Technology, a provider of SAN and workgroup management software solutions for creative professionals.

The certification allows joint customers with large-scale video SAN storage infrastructures to add continuous high availability access and data protection to existing metaSAN customers. The combination of Vicom’s Vmirror™ appliance and metaSAN simplified storage management provides customers with an enterprise class SAN storage solution tailored to meet their budget and performance requirements.

“Performance, reliability and affordability are three of the most sought after SAN requirements. Given storage often represents the single largest SAN expense, users are always looking for ways to save money without sacrificing reliability” says Alexander Lefterov, CEO at Tiger Technology. “Vicom Vmirror™ allows full redundancy to be achieved across multiple off-the-shelf and affordable RAID units. In addition to providing bullet-proof reliability, the Vmirror™ effectively doubles the available SAN throughput.”

“We are delighted to be entering this key partnership with Tiger Technology. This is part of our ongoing commitment to provide customers in the media and entertainment market with integrated enterprise SAN storage solutions at affordable prices. metaSAN’s ease-of-use, ability to share digital content at high speed, and cross-platform SAN, along with Vmirror™ continuous high availability features, make it a compelling solution for video content creators", said Horatio Lo, managing director of Vmirror division, Vicom Systems.

About metaSAN

metaSAN is a high-speed, cross-platform, file-level sharing SAN management software that sets new standards for workgroup collaboration. metaSAN enables multiple users to share access to common data files in workgroups where heavy bandwidth requirements are the norm. Targeted to the needs of digital content creation professionals involved with the creation of animation, digital intermediates, audio, graphics, satellite imagery, video clips, etc., as part of the production process, the software also meets the needs of a wide range of enterprise users in other markets including imaging, digital prepress and corporate/government.

For more information on metaSAN, please visit www.tiger-technology.com

About Vicom Systems

Vicom specializes in the delivery of transparent, wire speed data services for systems and storage. Vicom’s technology and solutions deliver on the long-standing promise of SANs: seamless consolidation, any-to-any connection, simplified management, and high availability. The company’s customers include Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Ceva Logsitics, Intelsat, Turner Studios, and Korean Broadcasting.

For more information on Vicom, please visit www.vicom.com.