Disk Storage Solutions: JMR ORCA Storage System Caught By Eyespot Corporation
JMR Electronics Inc., a leader in developing and manufacturing disk storage solutions, announced today that Eyespot Corp. has implemented the ORCA Storage System as part of its delivery system for its online video editing and remixing services. Eyespot's services allow users to quickly and easily combine video, pictures and music of any kind into a single video, all in one place online.
Founded in 2005, Eyespot changed the landscape of online digital media when it offered the world's first online video editing and remixing service. Eyespot's free online tools allow users quickly to upload video, photos and music from mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders. They can then mix the files into one polished video- all without software downloads or user manuals. Users can also supplement their videos by mixing in content from the Eyespot network including music or video clips from popular content holders or other users who make their content public. The video can then be sent with the click of a mouse to external video websites, mobile phones or email accounts.
Keeping all those pictures, video and audio clips, requires massive amounts of fast data storage – enter JMR's ORCA Storage System. By providing fast fiber channel connectivity to Eyespot's server farm, users have instant access to their online files. Eyespot was built to scale to millions of users, with each user provided an individual account with associated storage. All this adds up to multiple terabytes of data, needed instantly, 24 hours/day, 365 days/week.
"One of the beauties of Eyespot is that users can access our service from any computer and have their account with all of their content, as well as content from the network, right in front of them anytime, anywhere. However, that means that all of the videos, mixes, music files and photos need to be stored on a reliable and very fast system," said David Dudas, CTO and co-founder of Eyespot Corp. "With the ORCA system, we can have our thousands of users using Eyespot simultaneously without disruption, allowing them to quickly and easily create their own videos."
ORCA's built in fiber channel switch allow all servers to be directly connected to the ORCA without going through an external switch. Currently the ORCA has a combination of web servers, mixing servers, Apache upload servers, and MySQL database servers, simultaneously in use at Eyespot.
"ORCA is designed for organizations requiring not only high capacity storage, but also looking for a dense footprint, expandability and an aggressive price point." said Josef Rabinovizt, President and CEO of JMR Electronics. "We're delighted Eyespot chose the ORCA for their storage needs."
ORCA's innovative architecture delivers unsurpassed performance, reliability, and flexibility for organizations looking for cost effective storage systems. Because of ORCA's ability to expand capacity on the fly, it's the perfect solution for growing and dynamic environments.
"We realized we had an enormous need for storage, and required a solution that can easily expand, as well provide our users with the ability to add and access their files instantly." continued Dudas.
With extreme density, ORCA provides 21 terabytes of storage capacity in just 4U of rack space delivering up to 210TBs of storage space, all in a single rack and managed by a singe interface. It's the perfect solution for storage intensive video applications, such as Eyespot's.
In addition to unsurpassed storage density, ORCA delivers high availability through the use us RAID technology and fully redundant, hot-swap components. ORCA employs an advanced RAID technology that delivers multiple-parity to a single RAID group. This allows for the failure of more than one disk drive at any given time. Given the advancement of disk drive capacity, the need for added protection is becoming a standard requirement.
"With 500GB and 750GB disk drives readily available, customers don't want to be exposed to data loss during a drive rebuild", said Rabinovitz, "By providing multiple-parity RAID, our customers don't have to worry about data loss during a rebuild. And, unlike RAID 6, we don't have the overhead of dual parity writes in each operation. Multi-parity RAID is the perfect blend of reliability and performance."
About JMR Electronics Inc.
Through over 25 years of innovation in external disk storage, JMR has earned a reputation as a leader in the storage industry. No matter the type or size of your organization, JMR has a storage solution to fit your needs. Whether it's priority data for fast retrieval, back-up and recovery protection, or long-term archiving, JMR solutions integrate with your existing systems and software and can expand when needed.
About Eyespot
Eyespot changed the landscape of online digital media when it offered the world's first online video editing and remixing community, where consumers can easily upload, edit, mix together and share video clips, audio files or photos in one place online. The company was founded in 2005 by digital media and technology industry veterans and is based in San Diego, Calif. Eyespot can be found on the web at www.eyespot.com.