Vancouver, BC – April 7, 2008 –
Bycast Inc., a leading provider of grid-powered storage management software, today announced it is partnering with Omneon, Inc, a leading provider of flexible media server and active storage systems, to deliver highly scalable data protection and preservation to industries that need rapid access to vital data.
Bycast and Omneon are collaborating to develop native support for Omneon's MediaGrid clustered storage platform within Bycast's StorageGRID® storage management software.
“The robust data protection and preservation strengths of Bycast's StorageGRID software is a perfect complement to the scalable performance of Omneon MediaGrid,” said Dave Frederick, Director of Storage Marketing at Omneon. “We look forward to working together to combine our highly reliable, flexible, and scalable storage systems with Bycast’s content management and preservation software to satisfy the requirements of industries with a need for rapid access to mission critical data.”
The Bycast StorageGRID storage management solution enables companies to overcome their storage challenges and achieve lifetime protection through an integrated, multi-tiered storage grid that spans data centers and leverages existing storage hardware investments. In addition, the solution ensures users gain fast, consistent, and reliable access to stored programming content or data, independent of growth.
“We are very pleased to be teaming with Omneon and are excited about the capabilities that a Bycast-Omneon solution offers in providing ‘tier one through deep archive’ under a single system," said Dean Neumann, Director, Product Marketing at Bycast. “We believe this solution will have broad appeal to any industry that has the need to store large amounts of high value data that must be retained and protected long term.”
Storage, protection and preservation of massive volumes of valuable content for long periods of time is presenting new and tough storage management challenges to the broadcast sector, as well as other industries. StorageGRID delivers a high-performance, high-availability storage platform that protects data and simplifies the management of massive archives by scaling on demand, simplifying migration and automating recovery. StorageGRID delivers a virtualization and protection layer that creates a unified fixed-content storage system across multiple facilities and heterogeneous storage hardware. StorageGRID enables formation of storage systems that can scale to petabytes of data across hundreds of sites.
Bycast will be exhibiting in booth # SU9905 at NAB, Las Vegas, NV on April 14-17, 2008. Omneon’s industry-leading storage systems can be found on Booth # SU9620.
About Bycast
Bycast is the leading provider of grid-powered storage management software that simplifies the management of massive fixed-content storage systems. For organizations whose business depends on access to vital data, Bycast software preserves and protects fixed-content assets over their lifetime. Bycast StorageGRID software enables organizations to optimize their storage infrastructure and ensure the integrity and availability of their valuable data. StorageGRID also enables the formation of regional archives that can scale to petabytes of data across hundreds of sites. StorageGRID is sold globally through OEM relationships with two of the world’s major storage vendors. Bycast Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, BC. To learn more about the company and its solutions, visit www.bycast.com.
About Omneon
Omneon is a leading provider of flexible media server and active storage systems that optimize workflow productivity and on-air reliability for the production, distribution, and management of digital media. Omneon is a pioneer in the use of advanced IT technologies and open systems for broadcast applications, producing a modular and expandable video server architecture in the Omneon Spectrum. The company's MediaGrid active storage system delivers centralized content storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and media-processing power. The company has an extensive global presence with customers in 50 countries on six continents. Omneon is on the Web at www.Omneon.com.
Media Contact
Annette Saliken
Bycast Inc.
Tel.: (604) 692-3083
Email: asaliken@bycast.com
Paulien Ruijssenaars
Omneon, Inc.
Tel.: (408) 585-5421
Email: paulienr@omneon.com |
