Tiger Technology Brings Out metaSAN 5 ($995) …

Tiger Technology OOD, developer of SAN and workgroup management software solutions, announced availability of metaSAN, metaSAN iSCSI, metaLAN Server, and metaLAN version 5.0 with SAN/LAN performance, improved editing workflow, and smart diagnostic tools for SAN.

"We’re pleased to announce our most significant upgrade to metaSAN since the product’s initial release," says Alexander Lefterov, CEO at Tiger. "While metaSAN has always been renowned for its remarkable reliability and user-friendliness, this new version brings a wealth of new tools that not only enhance the user’s experience, but also put more intelligence for simplifying the maintenance and monitoring of the SAN. We believe that sharing projects and managing a large seat SAN has never been easier."

New in version 5:

• Dynamic ProjectStore: Edit with Avid, Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro.
• Dashboard Management: Get a bird’s eye view of SAN in real time.
• Remote SAN Monitoring: SANguard monitors the well-being of SAN through remote diagnostics.
• Organic Scale-Out Storage Cluster: Store, expand, tier and migrate data with ease.
• Access Control and User Authentication: Mac users now authenticate against Active Directory.
• Perpetual vs. 1 Year Licences: Choose the option.

Tony Dolezal, editor at Nice Shoes, comments the release: "The speed and reliability of metaSAN 5 made collaborating on projects so simple that I could easily focus on the creative aspects of the edit, and spend less time worrying about the technical side of things".

Nice Shoes, CEO, Dominic Pandolfino, adds: "It provides the strong technical backbone to our creative endeavors that we see as being key to Nice Shoes’ customer service."

metaLAN 5 also boasts near wire speed performance with minimum network latency over 1/10GbE.

"I found metaLAN 5 and the new ProjectStore feature to be very impressive," says Alex Agoston, CEO of Avenue Digital LLC, a post-production facility located in the NO HO Arts District of Los Angeles. "metaLAN 5 turned our Windows server into an efficient centralized shared storage for all our Avid / FCP / DaVinci and GFX workstations. It solved our Avid compatibility issue at a fraction of the cost of the other solutions. I highly recommend metaLAN 5 to any user looking for a reliable shared storage solution at a great price."

Pricing and availability
metaSAN 5 is available through authorized Tiger Technology sales partners at MSRP $995 in the Americas. A new 1-Year licensing model is also being introduced. metaSAN 5 allows Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Server 2003/2008 (32 and 64-bit), Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion as well as Linux operating systems to simultaneously read and write on the same SAN volume. Software products are available from the company’s international sales partners.