United Nations Chooses SuperCD as CD-ROM Network Solution
Salt Lake City, UT (June 1, 1998) – Axonix Corporation proudly announces that The United Nations has chosen the SuperCD for their CD-ROM networking solution.
Faced with the daunting task of providing CD-ROM information to the translation department spread out over several floors of their New York headquarters, The United Nations needed a cost effective, high performing solution. The goal of the systems administration department was to offload the CD-ROM traffic from the main file server and provide a centralized means to distribute important CD-ROM information.
The critical factor in choosing SuperCD™ was its ability to mirror CD-ROM disks onto hard drives. This technology, called Turbocaching™, provides the fastest means for distributing CD-ROM information because workstations access the CD information from fast hard drives instead of slow CD-ROM drives. In addition, CD capacity is increased greatly since the UN is able to mirror up to 60 CD’s onto the hard drives of a SuperCD.
SuperCD appealed to them for another reason. SuperCD attaches to the network and runs independently of the main file server. The UN’s file server was already overutilized. In fact, The United Nations chose to use SuperCD not only as their method to distribute CD-ROM information but also as a way to add departmental hard drive storage. The UN plans to add an Iomega Jaz™ Drive to their SuperCD™ in order to provide a cost-effective means for backing up workstations.
Founded in 1983, Axonix Corporation, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a privately held company recognized as a leader in network storage appliances, designed to increase the productivity of networked computer users. The current product line, SuperCD™, is based on Axonix® ProLinQ™ servers, dedicated storage application servers for local area, wide area and internet networks.