About IntracorpPhiladelphia-based Intracorp, a subsidiary of CIGNA Corporation, helps employersmaximize their workers' compensation and disability benefits programs to enhancethe well-being and productivity of their workforce. Intracorp, which was rankedthe leading case management provider in 2009 by Business Insurance magazine,also offers pharmacy benefit management, utilization management, return-to-workprograms, ergonomic consulting, medical bill review, provider network access,and information management services. For more information, visit the Web siteat: http:// CIGNAAmy Copyright Business Wire 2009. Compact and Scalable Solution Seamlessly Moves Data across a Wide Range ofFormatsLAS VEGAS--(Business Wire)--Atrato, Inc. (), a leading provider of high-volume on-demandstorage for the digital media, entertainment, Web 2.0 and high performancecomputing (HPC), today announced that Entertainment Experience, LLC has selectedthe Atrato Velocity1000 (V1000) for high speed image storage and distribution.The V1000 will equip Entertainment Experience`s digital cinema transcoder withcompact, high performance tiered storage, using the Intel X25-E Extreme SATASolid-State Drives (SSDs) for Tier 0 acceleration.
This will enable theEntertainment Experience product to store up to 56 terabytes (or 2500 HD movies)and serve thousands of hours of concurrent HD data streams in a single 3U rackunit, producing a solution that uses up to 75% percent of the rack space and 80percent of the power of competing products. "By choosing Atrato we are enabling a transcoding solution that offers muchhigher performance and capacity density," said Jim Sullivan, EntertainmentExperience president and co-owner and former COO and CTO for Kodak DigitalCinema. "It can uniquely scale to support the transcoding of multiplesimultaneous streams, regardless of source/target formats and data volume." Effective transcoding (direct digital-to-digital conversion of one format toanother) can be critical for maximizing the production and delivery of highdefinition video content. Atrato`s new V1000, which was announced earlier thismonth, offers a tiered storage architecture that combines the raw performance,storage density and power efficiency of SSDs with the capacity and low cost ofHDDs. Atrato's intelligent platform, powered by ApplicationSmart software, isideal for the high throughput and data intensive environments that are typicalfor Entertainment Experience customers.
It accelerates data for high accesscontent and scales from terabytes to petabytes of storage. "ApplicationSmart provides the industry with a Tier 0 storage solution thattakes advantage of the increased performance and power savings of oursolid-state drives," said Pete Hazen, director of marketing for Intel NANDSolutions Group. "Using Intel SSDs, Atrato users can also take advantage ofexcellent application acceleration and intelligent system scaling." "Entertainment Experience provides unique value to its customers, by addressingthe most challenging issues in digital entertainment and distribution," saidSteve Visconti, president and CEO of Atrato. "Their new transcoding system isanother example of the company`s commitment to provide high quality, high speedsolutions with significantly lower cost and footprint." About the Atrato V1000-powered TranscoderThe new Entertainment Experience transcoder integrates Microsoft Encoder on astandard Windows 2003/2008 server system equipped with multi-core technology forCPU scaling. The Atrato V1000 will be used for advanced input/output (IO)storage that delivers extreme performance. Atrato brings the ability to take advantage of hybrid SSD and HDD block-leveloptimization as well as file level content that can be ingested into asolid-state LUN. This accelerates transcoding by 200 to 800 percent, dependingupon the workflow software used.