Enterprise storage specialist and member of the Siltek IT Supply Chain, Intelligent Systems (IS), has announced a new digital publishing product from Rimage Corporation - the first fully automated DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) recording system.
Gerhard Grundlingh, marketing manager at IS, believes extending Rimage's line of CD-R publishing systems to include DVD-R technology is a logical next step. "The Producer 2000 Protege DVD-R allows small volumes, under 1000, of DVD discs to be easily and efficiently created and printed using a publish-on-demand methodology," he says.
The product is fully automated, features two second-generation Pioneer DVD-R drives, offers a 120-disc capacity and can simultaneously record two unique fully recorded DVD discs per hour. "DVD-Rs with less data will naturally be produced proportionally faster," he notes.
The system also includes Rimage's Prism printer, a full-colour thermal transfer printer, and the company's Perfect Image Producer Software Suite - which allows the unit to operate in unattended environments.
"Applications developed for CD-R systems by Rimage partners can also easily be migrated to support DVD-R," adds Grundlingh.
DVD-R discs can store in excess of seven times more data than CD-R discs - an increased capacity that means they can more effectively be used to store video, audio and graphic files, including x-rays, ultrasounds, movies, and large document collections. And since they are the same size as CDs, DVD-R discs are compatible with library and changer mechanisms in use today. "Designed for industrial use, the Protege DVD-R has pushed the envelope of storable data into a new spectrum of multimedia and storage possibilities," concludes Grundlingh.
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Pioneer
Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. is dedicated to bringing the very best of leading-edge technology to market. Pioneer invented the world's first DVD-Recordable drive, DVD library, multiple-disc CD-ROM changer and offered the first multifunction optical drive capable of reading and writing to both MO and WORM. The company is a leading supplier of optical drives to the majority of first tier OEM PC manufacturers. The Optical Division's products include DVD-Recordable and DVD-ROM drives; CD-ROM drives, changers and libraries; optical drives; MO, WORM and DVD-R media for a wide range of storage solutions in the educational, government, legal, banking, medical, insurance, finance, industrial and general business markets.
Rimage
Minnesota-based Rimage Corporation has operations in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company's major products include digital publishing and duplication systems for CD-R media serving many diverse markets, including music, video, photography, finance, health care, software manufacturing and government.
Intelligent Systems
A specialist distribution company in the SILTEK IT Supply Chain Group, Intelligent Systems provides storage solutions that underpin many of the diverse business applications so prevalent in the business world today, including: Storage Area Networks, Data Warehousing, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Document Imaging, e-Commerce and Hierarchical Storage Management. The company holds distribution or sub-distribution rights to a broad range of storage technologies and products, including hard disk-based subsystems, optical technology, tape devices, high-performance connectivity and software management products.
Intelligent Systems applies its considerable expertise to building solutions to satisfy individual storage requirements of a variety of specific business applications. The company can be contacted on +27 11 315 3120 or on its Web site at www.intsys.co.za