Nexsan ATAboy2x Accepted Into USC School of Cinema-Television

Nexsan ATAboy2x Accepted Into USC School of Cinema-Television High-performance RAID Solution Provides 5.6TB of Storage to Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television has selected a high-performance ATAboy2x as a primary storage subsystem at its state-of-the-art Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010828/LATU016LOGO ) The Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts is a 35,000-square foot digital production and post-production facility that features five sound stages, an expansive digital editing laboratory featuring 50 Avid Xpress Pro editing systems on HP XW8200 workstations, a Vicon 3-D Motion Capture System and more than 175 Sony digital cameras, including two Sony HDWF900 High Definition digital video cameras and related equipment for student use. Nexsan's ATAboy2x provides the Center with 5.6TB of storage for student projects incorporating visual effects, computer animation and synthetic sets. "Our goal in creating a digital arts facility at USC was to empower our students by providing the most up-to-date technologies used in real-world settings of today's entertainment community," said Dr. Richard Weinberg, research professor. "Nexsan's ATAboy2x helps us stay state-of-the-art and will help support future generations of digital artists and filmmakers working in high definition and other digital formats." "The ATAboy2x is ideal for high-performance and high-capacity applications such as high definition television, digital film and video," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "All of the critical components are user pluggable, enabling organizations, such as USC School of Cinema-Television, to maximize the return on their storage investment by extending the capabilities of their ATAboy2x systems with future upgrades for even greater ease of management and flexibility." Nexsan dual controller design supercharges RAID performance to produce sustained RAID 5 reads of over 600 Mbytes per second, making the ATAboy2x an ideal platform for HDTV, digital film and video, and other high-performance and high-capacity fixed content applications. The highly flexible Fibre Channel controller design supports fabric, point-to-point, or FC arbitrated loop modes and is backward compatible with 1 Gigabit Fibre Channel equipment, enabling the ATAboy2x to be seamlessly integrated into any SAN infrastructure. Additionally, each controller is equipped with two gigabit Ethernet management ports. About the USC School of Cinema-Television In the 75 years since Douglas Fairbanks Sr., founding president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), spoke to the University of Southern California's first film class in 1929, the USC School of Cinema-Television has fueled and mirrored the growth of entertainment as an industry and an art form. The School offers comprehensive programs in directing, producing, writing, critical studies, animation and digital arts, production, and interactive media, all backed by a broad liberal arts education and taught by leading practitioners in each field. Its more than 8,000 graduates -- the ranks of which include such stellar figures as Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Bob Ducsay, Ron Howard, James Ivory, Randal Kleiser, George Lucas, Michelle Manning, Bill Mechanic, Neal Moritz, Walter Murch, Jay Roach, Gary Rydstrom, Edward Saxon, Josh Schwartz, Stacey Sher, Bryan Singer, John Singleton, Stephen Sommers, John Wells, David L. Wolper, Robert Zemeckis, and Laura Ziskin -- are among the world's most distinguished animators, scholars, teachers, writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, sound experts, and industry executives. Since 1973 not a year has passed without an alumnus being nominated for an Academy Award. On September 26, 2004, the USC School of Cinema-Television was honored by AMPAS, its founding partner, with a specially commissioned award in recognition of the School's unparalleled record of leadership, excellence, and innovation in entertainment education. For more information, please see the School's website at http://www-cntv.usc.edu/ About Nexsan Technologies Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., is the leader in innovative and correct cost storage solutions. The company creates and delivers award-winning, storage-centric hardware and application-based solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. Next generation Nexsan storage products are designed for corporate, graphics, medical imaging, animation and special effects, real time/event monitored/online/off site storage, Internet delivered content, digital film and video, financial on-line transaction data, music and voice, video security and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's website at http://www.nexsan.com/. 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