Reference Architectures Specifications

The Digital Asset Management (DAM) Reference Architecture provides a fully tested system for media companies to use as they initiate plans to design and deploy the next generation digital media infrastructures that provide easy integration with existing IT and content computing environments.

Hardware components:

• Sun Fire V890 (Solaris/SPARC 9 & 10)
• Sun Fire V490 (Solaris/SPARC 9 & 10)
• Sun Fire V240 (Solaris /SPARC 9 &10)
• Sun Fire V40Z (Solaris/Opteron)
• Sun StorEdge 6920
• Java Workstation W2100Z

Software components:

• Solaris OE 9 & 10
• SAM-FS/QFS (StorEdge Management SW)
• Sun Java System Web server 6.1 sp3

Partners (ISV and IHV) in DAM RA1.0 and 2.0
Sun Microsystems assembled a critical group of leading media technology partners to work on this program. We committed ourselves to the development of a "Reference Architecture" that we could share with anybody who was contemplating how to transition to an open, standards based Digital Asset Management System.

Vendor:

OpenText/Artesia
Oracle
Apple
Virage
Thomson GrassValley
Telestream
Harris
Harris
Sony
Sony

TEAMS 6.0
Oracle 9i
Final Cut Pro V4.0
VideoLogger
XP 1100
FlipFactory Pro
Media/Air Clients
ADC100 Device Server
eVTR
PetaSite CSM-60BS

Metadata Mgmt
RDBMS
Ingest, Edit
Logging
Playout Server
Transcode
Automation
Automation
Ingest
Repository

Metadata Mgmt
RDBMS
Ingest, Edit
Logging
Playout Server
Transcode
Automation
Automation
Ingest
Repository

Z-Micro
Myers
Omneon
Pinnacle
Leitch
Seachange
Quantel
WGBH
WGBH
Rightsline

Zvideo
ProTrack 5.0
Spectrum Media Server
MediaStream Broadcast Server
VR400
Media Cluster
sQServer
VITA
Chunker
Rights Intelligence System

Ingest, edit
Traffic
Playout Server
Playout Server
Playout Server
Playout Server
Playout Server
Ingest
Edit
CRM

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Sun and Sybase have jointly developed this Reference Architecture to help enterprises deploy very large databases of more than a terabyte of data that are highly scalable and can accommodate future growth.

Hardware components:

• Sun Fire 15K server
• Sun Fire V1280 server
• Sun Fire E6900 server
• Sun Fire 6800 server
• Sun Fire V880 server
• Sun Fire V240 server
• Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array
• Sun StorEdge 6320 System
• Sun StorEdge T3 Array for the Enterprise
• Sun StorEdge 9900 storage systems
• Foundry Load Balancing Switch

Software components:

• Solaris 9 Operating System
• Sybase Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex software
• Sun StorEdge Management Console

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As datacenters scale to accommodate business growth, most IT professionals continually face the challenges of doing more with fewer resources. They want to reduce IT costs, use resources more efficiently and quickly adapt their infrastructure to an ever-changing business environment.

To address these customer needs, Sun and Oracle jointly developed the Sun Oracle 10g Grid Reference Architecture for resource virtualization and provisioning. The Oracle RAC 10g database offers many features to improve resource utilization and provision resources to meet demanding business changes.

»  View white papers and collaterals,

• Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 10g Grid
• Global Partners: Sun and Oracle
• Oracle Reference Architecture Solution Brief

The Secure Network Access Platform Reference Architecture provides governments fast access to critical intelligence data residing on physically separate networks, while preserving integrity and security. This architecture makes secure collaboration across parallel networks possible from a single system, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

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