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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- Incite Multimedia Corporation, the leader in flexible, expandable non-linear editing solutions, has announced that DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance has been chosen as their primary storage networking solution for broadcast, post and digital media installations that require access, collaboration and scalability. Now, Incite customers will be able to easily create highly scalable, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage storage networks using DataDirect Silicon Storage Appliance technology to accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and lower operating costs. DataDirect Networks is the leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, having introduced their first appliances customers in broadcasting, high performance computing and post-production in June 2000. Both DataDirect and Incite see strong demands from creative professionals for mature solutions that meet high requirements for agility, efficiency, Quality of Service (QoS) and support. "Storage networking environments are Incite's most natural habitat, a virtual breeding ground for Incite editing tools and solutions that deliver high-quality content with faster than air-time speed and agility," Ivan Plemic, technical director, Incite Multimedia Corporation, said. "Using Silicon Storage Appliance solutions as the SAN foundation brings easy to manage, highly scalable storage networks that bring substantial productivity and application acceleration benefits to digital professionals, putting a competitive and compelling technology advantage at their fingertips." "Silicon Storage Appliances deliver the increased efficiency, lower operating costs and the highest levels of Quality of Service (QoS) needed for today's and tomorrow's digital facilities," Paul Bloch, executive vice president, DataDirect Networks, said. "DataDirect's storage appliance solutions will allow Incite customers access to highly scalable storage networks with the top reliability, speed, productivity and quality standards that Incite users demand in their day-to-day activities." The Silicon Storage Appliance serves at the core of the storage network, bringing unbeatable and guaranteed bandwidth to the production environment. 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. 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. DataDirect's "format independence" guarantees scaling of capacity and streams from highly-compressed all the way to HD and beyond. Silicon Storage Appliances overcome the many limitations of first generation storage networks, bringing application acceleration with high QoS. 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. For more information visit www.datadirectnet.com