INNOVATORS IN STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

JMR DEBUTS BLUESTOR TO INTERNATIONAL MARKET AT IBC 2009

The leading Direct Attached and Fibre Channel storage product line, now available worldwide, is ideal for digital broadcast and post-product

JMR Electronics, Inc., a leading value provider of scalable storage systems for video and data intensive applications, will debut several new digital video and broadcast-ready RAID storage solutions at the IBC 2009 show at RAI Centre in Amsterdam from September 10th- 15th.

At JMR’s Booth (Hall 7, Stand G14), the company will introduce its latest Fibre Channel storage offering, FibreStream. When added to an existing Storage Area Network (SAN), the FibreStream solution becomes a highly scalable and reliable system that can be configured for RAID levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 40, 50 or 60.  FibreStream features a built-in 4-port 4Gb FC switch, and is the highest performance per dollar storage system available on the market, with an average measured read speed of 1,317.286 MB/sec and an average measured write speed of 756.165 MB/sec.
JMR’s 4U rackmount BlueStor 16-bay RAID Video Server system will also be featured, and will be demonstrated as an ingest server running Assimilate SCRATCH software, featuring a 19-in-1 card reader, Blu-ray writer, an nVIDIA Quadro 5600 SDI graphics card, USB and an E-SATA storage port. The 16-bay unit can expand up to 32 TB using the latest generation 2 TB SATA-II disk drives.

In addition, the JMR EXTN-8, a PCIe bus extender with a built-in 16-bay SAS/SATA hot-swap JBOD/RAID housed in a common 3U rackmount chassis, is another high-performance storage option available for attendees to preview.  The 5-slot PCIe bus extender’s reliability is backed by nearly two years of compatibility testing with many motherboards, operating systems and peripheral devices. The EXTN-8 is a highly functional unit which includes the added benefit of a JBOD/RAID storage subsystem in the same chassis (capable of up to 32TB SATA storage).

JMR’s affordable and fault-tolerant storage solutions are based on JMR’s PeSAN™ (PCIe Storage Attached Network) technology.  JMR’s 16-bay BlueStor PeSAN RAID systems were developed to be the ultimate in high-performance Direct Attached Storage  for a wide range of video applications like content creation, VOD, video editing and 2K/4K Digital Intermediate (DI) film applications requiring extremely high sustained throughput and reliability – making it ideal for encoding, multi-stream SD/HD real-time editing, and 2K DI applications. For collaborative or multi-stream SD/HD and 2K/4K DI workflows requiring even higher performance and scalable storage, BlueStor PeSAN powered RAIDs can achieve up to 4,000 MB/s throughput and scale to over 4,000 TB raw capacity using the current JMR PeSAN technology.

For more information about FibreStream, BlueStor, or other JMR products, please visit www.jmr.com or view the products in person at IBC 2009 from Thursday, September 10th to Tuesday, September 15th, at RAI Centre, Amsterdam.  Sales inquiries from Europe, the Middle East and Africa are encouraged to contact Iain Pickthall, EMEA Sales Manager, at the JMR Booth, Hall 7, Stand G14, or reach him by e-mail at iain.pickthall@jmr.com or phone at +44 7760 768690.