CD Studio Solutions

The Challenge:

An organization needs a centralized CD and DVD recording solution to record CDs and DVDs directly from a Unix workstation or server. They don't want to send the data to a Windows computer, due to the risk of losing POSIX or other file system information, or impacting network traffic.

The Solution:

The Young Minds Studio family of products answers the challenge. Studio solutions provide direct attach CD and DVD recording capability for all common Unix platforms. With Studio solutions, users record data from virtually any computer running a Unix operating system, such as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, IRIX, QNX, or Tru64. Other platforms are also supported. Studio attaches via a SCSI connection that is standard on almost all Unix platforms.

The Studio family of products includes CD Studio, DVD Studio, PowerStudio, and MPS4+.

An Example:

A major network communications equipment manufacturer needed a DVD-Recording solution running under HP-UX to allow them to record files and datasets on a DVD disc. Tape was not considered cost-effective for this application because of limited access to tape drives at the multiple sites for reading back data. Using one of the available DVD-R software packages under Windows was not feasible because of file system incompatibilities, as well as the inability to read back UDF-compliant discs on many Unix platforms. Other Unix-based DVD recording packages were also tested, but did not meet the requirements for recording reliability and ease of use. With DVD Studio from Young Minds, the customer was able to exceed their requirements.