Frost & Sullivan's 2008 Product Differentiation and Innovation Award for Digital Media Storage Awarded to DataDirect Networks
Company Best Demonstrates the Ability to Develop and Advance Products with More Innovative Capabilities than Competing Vendors
For its part in addressing the unabated growth in next-generation digital content, DataDirect Networks, Inc., the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world, today received the 2008 Global Product Differentiation and Innovation Award for Digital Media Storage from Frost & Sullivan, the global growth consulting company. DataDirect Networks was recognized for its dedicated storage solutions for rich media applications utilizing its advanced Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) technology.
"Frost & Sullivan is proud to award DataDirect Networks with the global product differentiation and innovation of the year award for digital media storage," said Meghali Sharma, research analyst, Digital Media Storage. "After extensive worldwide research and analysis, this award is being presented to DataDirect Networks for consistently innovating its products based on its S2A real-time architecture and providing solutions for dynamic content storage. The company has best demonstrated the ability to develop and advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products."
"For example, the S2A architecture enables users to quickly and easily scale their storage without adding more controller elements such as processors, switch ports, and other surrounding elements," Sharma continued. "DataDirect Networks' flagship solution, the S2A9900, can scale up to 1.2 petabytes of capacity in only two floor tiles" utilizing a dual controller architecture. In contrast, most other solutions would require dozens of controllers or nodes to attain that level of capacity and would require significantly more floor space, power and cooling."
The increasing use of rich media such as video, audio, graphics and other heavy bandwidth-intensive content has led to a demand for storage solutions optimized for these specific data patterns. With a comprehensive product and solutions portfolio designed to address the unique data patterns of the digital media sector, DataDirect Networks' S2A platforms are used by more than 400 post production facilities, broadcasters and video-on-demand providers, the largest online gaming sites, social entertainment applications developers, and photo and video sharing services.
"Our record quarterly business results this year, combined with our strong business outlook and our recent product differentiation and innovation of the year award from leading global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan, are clear indicators that DataDirect Networks continues to elevate its stature in the industry," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-Founder of DataDirect Networks.
"Whether it's supporting multiple uncompressed 4K content streams, accelerating time-to-air for newsrooms or supporting over 30 Apple Final Cut Pro uncompressed HD workstations concurrently from a single appliance, no other storage platform is designed to address the multitude of extreme requirements in the digital media sector. We are honored that Frost & Sullivan has recognized that only DataDirect Networks delivers the types of next generation data infrastructure platforms required to address the all digital era, enabling users to thrive in their extremely competitive markets."
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation and Innovation is presented each year to the company that has best demonstrated the ability to develop and/or advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products. This Award recognizes the company's successful adoption of new or existing technology that has become a part of its well-designed product family. Such innovation is expected to significantly contribute to the industry in terms of product performance and degree/rate of technical change.
Before considering the recipient of this Award, the Frost & Sullivan analyst team tracks competing market participants' product differentiation strategies through ongoing research. This research consists of market participant interviews, end-user surveys, and extensive secondary research. The data compiled through this research is analyzed based upon specific measurement criteria for this Award. Participants are then ranked with respect to the measurement criteria. Frost & Sullivan then presents the Award to the company that received the number one rank.
The new research report from Frost & Sullivan on DataDirect Networks is available here: http://www.datadirectnet.com/pdfs/FROST-Innovation2008.pdf
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