DoSTOR Apr18,2008 --The 16th Annual China Content Broadcasting Network Exhibition (CCBN2008) was held from March 21st to March 23rd, 2008, in Beijing.

CCBN attracts more than 60,000 professional visitors and 1,000 companies and organizations from over 30 countries around the world. Besides Dayang, Sobey, NewAuto,there are also some storage vendors, UIT and Fujitsu.

Two weeks after returning from CeBIT2008, UIT attended CCBN2008. In a 100 sq. exibition UIT showed its latest and the first FC product BM5500, along with its BX1200 ‚ M6800 ‚ A1800 ‚ S2000e ‚ S3000e,which widely used in Radio and Television Industry.

UIT not only displayed a series of storage products, but also built a group of practical application environment to show its solutions.

Besides UIT, we also saw Fujitsu who participate CCBN2008 with its partner Onewave Technologies, Inc----a one-stop IPTV solution provider headquartered in Shanghai. Fujitsu displayed a high performance and high reliability platform:FUJITSU SPARC Enterprise UNIX servers and FUJITSU ETERNUS storage systems.

 

Fujitsu brought solutions targeting Media Resources Management and integrated business support system. They were "Enterprise-class Media Resources Center Storage ETERNUS Solution"and"BOSS System Enterprise-class Server FUJITSU SPARC Enterprise solution".Meanwhile, Fujitsu shared successful cases including Japan NHK TV station, British Sky TV station and so on. with attendees.

Experts said that storage applications in radio and television industry could extend to many industries such as online video, online games, animation design, digital film making , image recognition, geographic information systems and so on. And the development of HDTV(High Definition TV) and Web 2.0 open a broad market for storage. With the development of the industry and the mature of application, there will be more and more storage vendors participating to radio and television industry.

More and more storage vendors do attach important attention to rich media industry these days, for example IBM, NetApp and DataDirect.

IBM released Management Complexity Factor for Media (MCF for Media), a methodology and toolset for digital media storage environments. MCF for Media's analysis can produce an actionable plan to quickly reduce the time it takes to find content and make decisions about using particular video clips on demand.

NetApp and Dalet Digital Media Systems announced that they have partnered to create a digital asset management and archive solution on Apr 14th. By implementing Data ONTAP GX on their Dalet systems, customers can increase productivity and achieve higher quality content faster.

On the same day, DataDirect Networks,Inc. introduced the new S2A9700 StorageScaler(TM) networked storage system, aming at digital intermediate companies, broadcasters and post production facilities helping them to achieve their most pressing project deadlines.