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ASACA 33TB BLUE LASER LIBRARY UTILIZES CARTRIDGE-FREE MEDIA

At RSNA, Asaca Corp, a developer of high-capacity, high-performance data storage solutions, introduced the world's first blue laser optical storage library incorporating bare media from Sony Electronics. This latest addition to Asaca's family of TeraCart optical libraries, the TeraCart PD, is based on a new Professional Disc for DATA technology from Sony, utilizing cartridge-free media for scalable capacities ranging from 2TB to over 33TB in a single library while requiring no more than a four square foot of floor space.

Designed to meet the performance and 24-7 operation requirements of today's health care environments offering 9MB per second. write speeds and 11MB per second read, the Sony ProDATA media can store up to 23.3GB of data or the equivalent of up to 2,300 x-ray images (at 10MB per image) onto durable, random access media. The new TeraCart PD is available with both SAN and NAS support, offering the flexibility to start with a single cabinet and expand to as many as eight libraries for capacities reaching hundreds of Terabytes. Using pass-through and infrared communications, the libraries can be easily managed as a single physical unit.

"Sony's ProDATA technology is designed to meet the existing and emerging capacity and performance requirements that the market demands, as well as economically address today's regulatory requirements and data retention policies," said Mike Hall, business development manager for storage solutions at Sony Electronics' Component Solutions Business Division. "The combination of Sony's ProDATA technology into Asaca's world class family of libraries provides the customer with an excellent choice for storing their most valuable digital assets."

Ideally suited for high-performance professional imaging applications, these new blue laser libraries offer more than four times the capacity of red laser optical storage solutions. A flexible, standards-based solution, the TeraCart PD can be easily integrated as an essential part of an organizations' overall solution to gain compliance with government regulations including HIPAA.

"This new category of libraries bridges the gap for today's medical archive requirements," said Chuck Larabie, vice president of sales and marketing for Asaca/ShibaSoku Corp. "The TeraCart PD pairs the random access and removability feature of CD and DVD technology with the per cartridge capacity of tape. This new technology creates capacities nearly 3 times that of red laser technologies without adding a single inch to our floor space requirements and at a TCO much lower than other blue laser technologies."

A superior option to tape libraries, a single bare media Professional Disc for DATA disk can hold up to 23.3GB of data and the libraries can be equipped with one to six Sony ProDATA drives. A flexible, scalable, high-performance solution, the TeraCart PD is also an ideal solution for e-mail archival, enterprise content management, multimedia projects, graphic design, and audio/video editing and authoring.