iStudio Data Archive and CD/DVD Recording Solution Overview

Young Minds has reinvented optical-based data storage with iStudio, bringing incredible speed, incomparable reliability, and a host of indispensable features to solve the storage and archive challenges that face businesses, government, healthcare organizations, and others.

Imagine one system that can handle your online archives, offline archives, backups, data distribution, and disaster recovery. iStudio can replace your CD/ DVD jukebox, your tape library, and your CD/DVD recording system.

iStudio can span data across multiple discs. This lets you use standard DVD discs to record (and read back) single files or data sets as large as 50GBs. With the ability to handle large datasets, iStudio can function as a tape library, utilizing both RAID for online backup and write-once or rewritable media for your offline backup copies.

Innovative – iStudio is a new and powerful solution to meet many data center requirements, including long term archives, backup tasks, disaster recovery, digital asset management, and high volume CD and DVD recording. It is unequalled for speed, reliability, and usability.

Ingenious – iStudio provides centralized CD and DVD recording for archiving, backup, disaster recovery, distribution and other applications (additional software and/or integration services may be required). Designed to meet both enterprise and department requirements, iStudio is flexible, expandable, and rock-solid dependable.

Intelligent – iStudio utilizes DVD-Q, Young Minds’ Intelligent Automation software. Intelligent automation handles requests from multiple clients and prioritizes, schedules, and transfers data for recording on CD and DVD. Discs are recorded and labeled in a single step. Requests for both CDs and DVDs can be handled together (mixed-mode recording). The same data that is being recorded can be simultaneously loaded into iStudio’s virtual jukebox.

Immediate – iStudio is absolutely the fastest system available for recording CDs and DVDs

Immediate – iStudio is absolutely the fastest system available for recording CDs and DVDs. Moreover, iStudio’s server capabilities, highly optimized code, and 64-bit architecture minimize data streaming times.

Indispensable – iStudio is a cost-effective and reliable solution for your long term archives, disaster recovery, backups, disc production, and file server requirements.

Features

Easy to Use – iStudio uses YMi's proven and easy to use disc creation software.

Easy to Integrate – iStudio easily integrates with other applications through simple shell scripts or minor code modifications. No API library is required.

Compatible with existing Studio installations – Legacy YMi customers can replace automated Studio and MPS with iStudio, without extensive software development. Plugs into your existing PAS or HiPAS autoloader. 100% compatible with DVD-Q coding.

Virtual Jukebox option – Option provides online access to as many as 1500 CDs (more than 225 DVDs) by utilizing 1TB of RAID storage.

Disc Recording Formats – ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet, HFS, UDF.

Disc Recording Modes – DVD-R/RW DVD+R/RW,
CD-R/RW

Supported Clients – Most Unix platforms, including Solaris, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, and IRIX. Also supports Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98.

Max File Size for Recording to CD/DVD – 50GB

Network Access – iStudio plugs into your network and allows access from any client with appropriate permissions. Any user with appropriate permissions can send disc recording jobs to iStudio.

Automated CD/DVD Processing – iStudio schedules and completes the job without any additional user or administrative actions.

Job Prioritizing – Recording jobs are prioritized, scheduled and completed according to both preset and dynamic parameters for each user, group, and disc.

Disc Recording Formats – ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet, HFS, UDF.

Disc Recording Modes – DVD-R/RW DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW

Supported Clients – Most Unix platforms, including Solaris, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, and IRIX. Also supports Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98.

Max File Size for Recording to CD/DVD – 50GB

iJukeBox Features

The iJukeBox option is a virtual CD/DVD jukebox, providing read-only access to CD and DVD files.

With iJukeBox, data is delivered at hard disc speed – much faster than traditional CD/DVD jukeboxes. Both prerecorded CD/DVD titles and data that have been recorded to CD or DVD by iStudio can be stored in iJukeBox.