LSI Logic and SGI Demonstrate High-Performance SAN System

The SAN Server 1000 demonstration combined SGI shared storage with film restoration, video-on-demand and live delivery applications.

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LSI Logic and SGI demonstrated the SAN Server 1000 high-performance data-management system at IBC with film-restoration and video-on-demand applications.

An SGI SAN Server 1000 storage system connected to an SGI Octane2 visual workstation. Mathematical Technologies supplied film-restoration software for high-end post-production.

Kasenna MediaBase demonstrated video-on-demand and live delivery from an SGI Origin 300 server connected to the SAN.

The system combined SGI CXFS shared-file-system software with LSI Logic disk-array technology and connections for Windows NT/2000, Solaris and IRIX clients. SGI was later acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The system belongs to the storage and streaming archive.