Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI) became the buyer and absolute architect of Plasmon casting technologies in January 2009 and today announces key programs and operational capabilities that accredit it to abode the bazaar charge for trusted abiding archival accumulator with able Ultra Density Optical (UDO) solutions.
“ASTI formed actual carefully with Plasmon over the accomplished ten years as a sales and account provider of optical technology for archival applications,” said Chris Carr, ASTI CEO and President. “When Plasmon ran into banking adversity backward endure year, we were motivated to buy the bookish acreage and assets, and re-engage with professionals who feel our affection for the technology. There are over 17,000 installations of UDO technology that are not alone depending on our software and firmware abutment to extend the amount and activity of their aboriginal technology investment, but ambition us to enhance their articles and advance next bearing solutions. UDO media enables archival abstracts assimilation for 50+ years on a secure, reliable and abiding archive. If ASTI did not access the Plasmon UDO technology, barter would accept been affected to go to beneath reliable, added big-ticket and beneath environmentally-friendly alternatives. Today we are announcement key milestones in re-establishing the business and abstruse operations beneath the ASTI banderole and re-engagement with key approach partners, abstruse services, and ISV communities area UDO has been and will abide to be an basic allotment of their business and amount hypothesis to customers,” said Carr.
Since accepting Plasmon bookish acreage and assets, ASTI has re-established:
- Manufacturing of the UDO Drives, Archive Appliance and G-Series Library systems; G Enterprise, Gx Series, Archive Appliance NAS systems and AAE.
- Continued abutment of D Series, M Series, and 12 inch drives and library systems.
- Supply alternation for locations and abstracts to abutment manufacturing, adjustment services, new locations and upgrades for all the aloft accurate systems.
- Media manufacturing, for UDO1 and UDO2 (WORM & R/W). Other media accessible cover 5 ¼ MO and 12 inch media types.
- Archive Appliance software development assets in the UK (former Plasmon PLC employees), actively developing new releases and enhancements.
- Customer Service Level 1, 2 & 3 abstruse abutment for all Plasmon products. Customers beneath arrangement with ASTI are accepting abutment from a aggregation with abounding years of acquaintance with the Plasmon artefact line.
- Worldwide on-site aliment account arrangement for all Plasmon libraries. ASTI has broadcast its account arrangement to cover several accustomed aliment account organizations above the apple to accommodate abutment for Plasmon products.
- Authorized Service Provider (ASP) Program: ASTI has accustomed an ASP Program to ensure barter accepting third affair aliment casework are absolutely backed by ASTI and will accept acceptance to branch parts, absolute training and certification, ASTI abstruse support, new firmware and software releases, artefact affidavit and utilities.
- Channel Partner & ISV Programs: ASTI has re-engaged with over 100 Value Added Resellers and Systems Integrators worldwide, as able-bodied as key accumulator software and accouterments bell-ringer partners.
- ISO 9001 Certification and vender certifications from key partners.
About Ultra Density Optical
UDO is a blue-laser-based optical media that offers permanent, authentic-WORM (Write Once Read Many) storage, rated to endure added than 50 years. Rewriteable and Compliant Write Once media types are aswell available. Unlike chump bazaar DVD and Blu-ray offerings, UDO is a bartering brand band-aid that maintains a ‘compliant’ abstracts annal over a continued aeon of time. UDO’s different actual backdrop and accustomed artificial encasement abutment media administration and removability after causing accident to the stored information. The UDO blue-laser action is one of the alone technologies that ‘guarantees’ abstracts candor through analysis of every address operation to the media. It offers accomplished achievement through accidental acceptance of data, clashing alive technologies acclimated for video and music. UDO’s 25-millisecond seek times are abutting to deejay acceptance speeds, yet accept lower accretion costs, use 15% of the ability of deejay and are abundant faster than band and DVD. The media is water-proof and magnetic-proof and can be bankrupt after accident data. UDO is astern accordant with earlier UDO drives, attention the account of the media over continued periods of time.
About Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc.
In January 2009, ASTI completed the accretion of all Plasmon assets, including the abounding band of Plasmon libraries, drives, media, parts, and accompanying inventory. With this acquisition, ASTI positioned itself to achieve the administration role in archival abstracts accumulator and will abide to advance and advance the Plasmon casting solutions based on UDO optical accumulator technology. ASTI has actively recruited over 30 above Plasmon advisers and added aggregation professionals for key support, manufacturing, engineering, central and alfresco sales positions. For added information, amuse appointment www.alliancestoragetechnologies.com, alarm 719-593-7900 or email info@astiusa.com.
For columnist inquiries, amuse contact:
Mark Rieger
ProAmericas Marketing & Public Relations
markr@proamericas.com
303-520-4524
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