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Loudeye
Delivers More Digital Music Worldwide Thanks to StorageTek's
Information Lifecycle Management Solutions |
8/25/04
Digital Media
Solutions Provider Manages Archive of More than 4.5 Million
Digital Music Files
LOUISVILLE, Colo., /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the
growing
demand for digital music services and stores from consumer
brand companies,
wireless operators, service providers, media and
entertainment companies and
online retailers, Loudeye Corp. (Nasdaq: LOUD), the
worldwide leader in
business-to-business digital media solutions, looked to
maximize the speed,
efficiency, volume and capacity of its digital media
processing, management
and distribution services.
With the help of information lifecycle management solutions
from
StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corporation, NYSE: STK),
the leading
provider of enterprise information lifecycle management,
Loudeye has migrated
its entire archive of digital music to an optimized online
system, and as a
result, can provide instant and automated processing of
digital media files in
any format or size to its customers around the world.
Loudeye provides complete turnkey digital music stores for
more than 35
customers in 15 countries. Loudeye's media operations center
houses the
world's largest commercial archive of digital music stored
in uncompressed
.WAV format. To date, the company has delivered tens of
millions of digital
media files and more than one billion music clips to
customers worldwide.
As more companies from around the world seek to create and
launch digital
music experiences for their customers, they increasingly
rely on Loudeye's
digital media operations center and global digital media
infrastructure to
support their media businesses. In order to achieve
worldwide scalability,
Loudeye requires a storage solution and strategy that can
manage high volumes
of audio and video content to meet the needs of its rapidly
growing customer
base.
Using StorageTek's vast portfolio of information lifecycle
management
solutions, which manages information from its creation until
its deletion on
the most cost effective and appropriate storage media
available, Loudeye has
added more than 200 terabytes of storage, enabling real-time
encoding and
pushing the company's total aggregate storage capacity to
nearly one petabyte.
Additionally, since certain aspects of Loudeye's archive
have varying
technical requirements for storage, management and
protection, StorageTek is
able to keep the most current and popular music files highly
accessible on its
disk solutions while housing older, less popular content
across offline
machines. Further, using five of StorageTek's D280 high-end,
enterprise-
class, full 2Gb Fibre Channel storage systems, Loudeye has
been able to
efficiently deliver content to its global partners, helping
them come to
market quickly in the rapidly evolving digital media
marketplace. In addition
to StorageTek's disk solutions, Loudeye also leverages three
StorageTek
PowderHorn(R) tape libraries for near-line access of
archived audio files,
data backup and disaster recovery.
"Companies seeking to participate in the burgeoning digital
music
marketplace demand access to an end-to-end global digital
media platform that
enables them to quickly launch a compelling consumer
offering," said Joe
Baldini, vice president of IT at Loudeye. "StorageTek's
information lifecycle
management solutions have helped us expand and grow without
having to
constantly re-invest in our storage solutions. By creating
storage tiers,
StorageTek's solutions have helped us create a utility model
for storage,
allowing us to focus on expanding our business and enhancing
the performance
of our existing digital music infrastructure."
"With this announcement, information lifecycle management
pioneer
StorageTek is clearly demonstrating that its information
lifecycle management
solutions are here today, viable and installable, and not
simply a blueprint
or roadmap for the future," said Ed Broderick, principal
business analyst with
the Robert Frances Group based in Westport, Conn.
"Considering the massive
amounts of storage involved, StorageTek is also proving that
it is a force to
be reckoned with in the storage industry and that it has the
products and
solutions that scale very well in the high capacity/high
performance IT
marketplace."
About StorageTek
StorageTek is a $2 billion global company that enables
businesses, through
its information lifecycle management strategy, to align the
cost of storage
with the value of information. The company's innovative
storage solutions
manage the complexity and growth of information, lower
costs, improve
efficiency and protect investments. For more information,
see
http://www.storagetek.com, or call 1.800.877.9220 or
303.673.5151.
TRADEMARKS: StorageTek and the StorageTek logo are
registered trademarks
of Storage Technology Corporation. Other names mentioned may
be trademarks of
Storage Technology Corporation or other
vendors/manufacturers.
Contact:
Joe Fuentes
Manager, Global Public Relations
303.661.2523
joe_fuentes@storagetek.com
Bob Wientzen
Sr. Public Relations Manager
303.661.4993
bob_wientzen@storagetek.com
SOURCE
Storage Technology Corporation
Web Site: http://www.storagetek.com
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