AIC Highlighting Convergence of A/V Storage and Servers

Advanced Industrial Computer, Inc., a storage and server OEM/ODM solutions provider, announced its lineup of product demonstrations highlighting the convergence of storage and severs at NAB Show 2010 at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 12-15, 2010.

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Among the solutions showcased will be AIC’s ground-breaking Orion and Gemini-based servers, the industry’s first Avid Certified Xtore Studio series, the portable Xtore MobilRAID and Xtore MiniBod storage series, and a wide selection of SBB 2.0 compliant enclosures for flexibility and cost effectiveness. In addition to the live demonstrations, industry experts will be on hand and prize giveaway contests will be held daily.

"Our Avid Certified line of Xtore Studio storage products have been engineered to maximize the rapid delivery and management of the expanding footprint of digital content," said Gene Lee, senior vice president, AIC. "At NAB, we’ll be showcasing Xtore alongside other innovative storage, server and enclosure solutions that provide audio and video content professionals the ability to maximize both Mac and Windows environments while simultaneously managing their budgets."

AIC NAB 2010 Show product highlights include:

• Avid Certified Xtore Studio Series – The industry’s first Avid Certified local storage, the AIC Xtore Studio series offers affordable professional-grade storage specifically optimized for content creators in film, video, audio, broadcast and animation. The Avid certification process ensures professionals using qualified Xtore Studio products with Media Composer, Symphony and NewsCutter video editing solutions will experience the same system reliability and performance that Avid customers have come to expect.
• Orion Unified Storage Server – Based on the recently released Intel Xeon C5500/C3500 ‘Jasper Forest’ processor and AIC’s dual Orion controller in a 4U 24 bay SBB 2.0 enclosure, this solution will also be on display at the Intel Storage Solutions Theatre in the North Hall.
• Gemini FlashServer – The fastest on the market optimized for solid state drives, the AIC 2U 24 SFF 2.5" Bay Gemini FlashServer is breakthrough technology at 1 million+ IOPS and 6,000 MB/s of sustained throughput, dramatically boosting performance of video on demand, digital video/audio downloads or video streams.
• Xtore MobilRAID – This ultra portable storage series is rugged and Ready-to-Go On and Off location with a medical grade power supply and support for the industry’s latest I/O high-speed interfaces.
• Xtore MiniBod – Also optimized for portability, the Xtore MiniBod storage devices are the first 6Gb/s SFF portable JBOD showcased with 8 SAS solid state disks.