LOS ANGELES, CA -- Storage network appliance provider DataDirect Networks, in conjunction with two Matrox Video Products Group resellers, will be demonstrating solutions enabled by the company’s Silicon Storage Appliance technology at the DigiSuite Reseller Training event in Montreal on January 21 and 22. The Matrox channel partners, Dayang Technology Development, Inc. and Incite Multimedia Corporation, will showcase two compelling broadcast and editing solutions that exploit the strong feature set of Silicon Storage Appliances. DataDirect Networks will also be holding one-on-one meetings with DigiSuite channel partners to discuss the use of Silicon Storage Appliances in broadcast, post and digital media installations to easily create highly scalable, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage storage networks. “The ability to create a differentiated solution – simply and easily – is a tremendous advantage for channel partners,” Mark McLane, vice president worldwide sales, DataDirect Networks, said. “As channel partners examine Silicon Storage Appliance benefits of scalability, application acceleration and easy management, they will be able to create more and more powerful customer solutions to serve and benefit the creative community.” DataDirect Networks is the leading provider of the world’s highest performance storage networking appliances, having released their Silicon Storage Appliance product line in June 2000. Silicon Storage Appliances overcome the many limitations of first generation storage networks, bringing application acceleration with high QoS. The Silicon Storage Appliance serves at the core of the storage network, bringing unbeatable and guaranteed bandwidth to the production environment. DataDirect Networks’ Silicon Storage Appliance technology allows creative professionals to accelerate their applications, providing data at least three times faster than existing Storage Area Networking (SAN) solutions and ten times faster than Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology. The acceleration of data to applications and users -- simply and easily -- allows DataDirect Networks’ customers to consolidate their storage; the Silicon Storage Appliance technology allows management of up to 100 Terabytes by a single system administrator, providing 10x lower Total Cost of Ownership. With each appliance’s ability to supply over 6000 hours of 50Mbit/sec MPEG2@ML content to 90 concurrent streams, the Silicon Storage Appliance brings industry leading performance and scalability benefits to broadcasting and digital production environments. Directly supporting up to 512 workstations and 180 Terabytes of storage, DataDirect’s technology can simultaneously support a multitude of ingest, NLE, CG, playout and browse stations. DataDirect’s “format independence” guarantees scaling of capacity and streams from highly-compressed all the way to HD and beyond. It brings superior virtualization and parallelism benefits to content creators and provides unmatched advantages to the production environment. For broadcasters and creative professionals needing high stream count, rock solid audio and video streams, storage and host scalability, and simplified management, DataDirect Networks’ Silicon Storage Appliance technology sets new standards in application acceleration and plug and play simplicity. Customers using DataDirect’s Silicon Storage Appliances include the British Broadcasting Company, Star TV, Loudeye, NASA, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories National Century Financial Enterprises, Sandia National Laboratories, and Sonic Foundry, among others. DataDirect SAN partnerships include industry leaders VERITAS, Seagate, Emulex, and QLogic, among others. For more information visit www.datadirectnet.com