"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.

Solutions

Sharing Avid Projects in SAN Environment with metaSAN and MXFserver

Using FilmPartners MXFserver and metaSAN, utilize a workflow in which one MXFserver serves unlimited number of MXFserver clients that have direct high-speed access to the MXF container, stored on the SAN volume.

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Deploying Windows Server 2003 Cluster Services and metaSAN-managed SAN

You can use Windows server cluster technology to create several cluster nodes that appear to users as one server. This way you can ensure uninterrupted access to important server-based resources. Should one of the cluster nodes fail, the other node will take over providing service. Combining this with metaSAN's file-level sharing capabilities in a SAN environment, you can deploy a network with fault-resistant and fast access to common data.

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Deploying Windows Streaming Media Servers NLB Cluster and metaSAN

Using Windows Network Load Balancing Manager you can create a cluster with two or more nodes running Windows Server 2003 and set up to work as Windows Streaming Media Servers. This cluster will be used for streaming media on the Internet and will appear to users as one Streaming Media Server. Should one cluster node fail, another node will take over streaming media. This way you can ensure uninterrupted streaming of media as well as fair distribution of network traffic between the cluster nodes. Combining this with metaSAN's file-level sharing capabilities in a SAN environment, you can deploy a network in which media files to be streamed are stored on the SAN volumes and are made accessible directly over the Fibre Channel to other workstations too.

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Setting Up Render Farm Managed by Apple Qmaster in metaSAN Environment

Get the most out of Final Cut Studio Compressor by deploying a render farm managed by Apple Qmaster in metaSAN environment. The render farm cluster is managed by Apple Qmaster and consists of Mac OS X machines running metaSAN/metaSAN iSCSI/metaLAN software that render source material resident on the SAN storage.

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Setting the Home Folders of Mac OS X Domain Users on the SAN

If your Mac OS X SAN members are part of a domain controlled by Mac OS X Server, you can set up the home folders of domain users to be on the SAN and thus to provide them with fast access through the Fibre Channel instead of the Ethernet. This scenario will guide you through the steps of creating a new domain user and setting this user’s home folder to be on the SAN.

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