SYDNEY, Australia 3 November 2008

Leading storage distributor Eureka Pacific has been appointed as the Value Added Distributor of DataDirect Networks storage for the rich media market.

DataDirect Networks, Inc. is the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world—including the largest online gaming and music sites, social networking applications developers, photo and video sharing services, high performance computing environments, and more than 400 broadcast and post-production facilities around the globe.

Specialist storage and digital media distributor Eureka Pacific has a strong reputation for its channel and relationships within the growing Australian digital video, broadcast, post-production and rich media content creation fields.

Eureka will work on providing a broad range of rich media environments with better capabilities for dealing with extreme high-performance and capacity demands through solutions such as the S2A6620.

Managing Director Alexei Mazin, said, “We’re pleased to be working with DataDirect and are experiencing a positive response from the market already.”

“The Silicon Storage Architecture tackles the limitations of traditional storage like RAID 6 double parity protection without degradation and less failures, errors or rebuilds. It’s possible to fit 60 drives in a single 4U appliance - so, it’s very impressive.”

About Eureka Pacific

Eureka Pacific is the distributor of best-of-breed high performance storage and technology for rich media companies and professionals. Eureka’s brands offer solutions that respond to each stage of media business - from pre-production, production, distribution to archiving, media management and commercialisation. 

About DataDirect

DataDirect Networks is the leading provider of scalable storage systems for performance and capacity driven applications. Data Direct Networks' S2A(TM) (Silicon Storage Appliance(TM)) architecture enables modern applications such as video streaming, content delivery, modelling and simulation, backup and archiving, cluster and super computing, and real-time collaborative workflows that are driving the explosive demand for storage performance and capacity. Data Direct Networks' S2A technology and solutions solve today's most challenging storage requirements, including providing shared, high-speed access to a common pool of data, minimising data centre footprints and storage costs for massive archives, reducing simulation computational times, and capturing and serving massive amounts of digital content.

To enquire about Data Direct solutions, contact Eureka Pacific on 02 9439 7553.