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ieei.tv July 2009 Newsletter

Feeling The Heat!

Summer is upon us and there are so many ways to feel the heat.
But, stay cool by using the Apace tools from ieei.tv

Not only will you save money, but you will have a set of tools that allows you to do more, store more, share more and protect more of your valuable media.

Yep, and with Apace tools and this kind of workflow, you will be cool..... calm and happy.

Let us help you.

"A true professional achieves success when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."

Sizzling Switch!

Broadcasters Go Digital

Congratulations to the entire USA broadcast community for making the incredible switch to digital!

Now that you are feeding and playing out to multiple digital on air channels, let us help you by using the Apace server to Archive your on air content.

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Hot Hardware Advisory

Replace Your older Xserve RAID's Immediately

A valued Apple reseller has advised the following...... When they were introduced years ago, the Apple Xserve RAID was a breakthrough in SAN RAID price and performance. Most other SAN RAID products of the time were significantly more expensive. Fast forward to today. Untold thousands of Apple Xserve SAN RAID's have been deployed and are in use across the world today. And many facilities still rely on these machines to safely store their critical media and archives. It is our opinion these older devices should be replaced as soon as possible.

One of the most important aspects of using any RAID device is the ability to replace a failed hard drive and restore a RAID 5 volume to full status. You can lose one hard drive in a RAID 5 and have a degraded volume, but if you lose another you have lost all your data. It is not recoverable. Our recent checks have determined there are no further Apple Drive Modules being manufactured. Further, there are essentially zero remaining drives available as "stock" within the distribution channel (meaning there are none sitting "on a shelf" which can be overnighted to clients...).

Additionally, anecdotal checks have also determined that stocks of Apple Drive Modules available for warranty replacement via AppleCare are fully depleted. If you have an older Xserve RAID covered under an AppleCare agreement, there is no guarantee that you can get a replacement drive if you have a failure. if you don't have multiple spare drives on hand, there will come a time when your drives will begin to fail and you won't have an option for data recovery. One of our contacts has indicated they have seen failure rates of one drive per week in some of their oldest Xserve RAID systems. These folks are actively looking to migrate to a new storage platform.

What are the Best Options for Replacing These Older Systems?
vStor from ieei.tv

1. Install the vStor and you will have 8,16,24 or 36TB of storage and can support collaborative shared media and project files. You get realtime jitter free editing over GigE. Check out the video streams supported on a single 4U chassis... WOW!!!!

40 DVCPRO50

20 DVCPRO-HD

10 10-bit SD

10 10-bit ProRes 422

14 8-bit 7:1 DNxHD

14 8-bit ProRes 422 or

All over GigE!

2. Online Archive built-in.

3. RAID 5 protection! You will not lose one frame of video.

Contact Dennis Bress

Blazing Backups!

ieei.tv Now Offers LT04 Storage Extensions for Apace

Now with our Apace BRU backup package, you can backup up your media from Apace vStor or eStor under the control of postMAM media asset management to LTO4 24 bay 19.2TB tape library.

This means you now can keep hot content on spinning disc Apace vStor and eStor, AND now migrate any media you choose to LTO4 and still have the low res proxy files in the postMAM database for searching and viewing.

Find our more......... Contact any of your ieei sales professionals at this link: ieei sales professionals click here

Warm Up to the Idea of Leasing

Lease-To-Buy Makes Sense In This Economy

Need an Apace system, but don't have access to cash? Take a look at our Lease programs. They allow you to have the equipment AND to OWN the equipment at the end of the lease. A win - win for all.

The rates are great. Check out this page on our ieei.tv site. Enter some numbers and an email quote will be sent to you FREE of charge.

Check it out by clicking this link And click on the Lease Calculator

Steaming Streaming Video

Secrets of a Top Editor

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The World is Heating Up... And Getting Smaller

ieei.tv Brings The World Closer With Website Translation

Hit our web site at www.ieei.tv and scroll down on the left you will see the Google Translation button. You can click on it and it will automatically translate the web page to one of 30 languages...... Check it out, is is amazing.

From Afrikaans to Zulu....... it is all at the click of a mouse.

Contact Information

email: sales@ieei.com

phone: (949) 673-2943

web: http://ieei.tv

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