 Burbank, CA, May 14, 2008 -- Archion, the media and entertainment industry's leading provider of intelligent storage solutions for content creation, today announced that Starz Entertainment has deployed a 24 TB Alliance Pro™ storage system to enable a shared storage environment that would maximize their high bandwidth requirements. The new SAN has allowed Starz Entertainment to meet their HD bandwidth requirements across Apple, Adobe and Autodesk platforms.
Michael Price, Senior Designer/Tech Specialist, Starz Entertainment Design Group, said, "We at Starz recently re-launched all of our graphics packages in HD, and we needed the HD bandwidth for our storage solution. We are utilizing Archion's Alliance Pro™ storage so we could have multiple HD uncompressed systems. It's been working perfectly well. I was also very impressed with Archion's Technical Support."
"We needed a cost-effective SAN solution that could handle both PC and Mac uncompressed HD bandwidth, along with maximizing the amount of storage we could achieve," added Doug Reither, Starz Entertainment Engineering Supervisor. "The staff at Archion was very proactive in answering all of our technical concerns before the purchase. The support they have provided through the installation process and beyond has been excellent."
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 Upcoming Fox Films Utilizing Archion's Synergy HDu™ Solution: "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "Night at the Museum: Escape from the Smithsonian" and "They Came From Upstairs"
Burbank, CA, April 3, 2008 - Twentieth Century Fox has turned to Archion to provide the storage solution to four of the studio's major, upcoming feature film releases, "The Day The Earth Stood Still," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "Night at the Museum: Escape from the Smithsonian," and "They Came from Upstairs." The studio is utilizing Archion's Synergy HDu™ storage technology for these new films, all of which are currently in production. Archion is the only digital media storage company that seamlessly performs with all Avid Unity™ platforms.
Archion's client, Kory Voxen, Director, Digital Editing Operations, Twentieth Century Fox, said, "We are currently using Archion's Synergy HDu™ storage systems for four of our major upcoming films. Currently we're running our Archion Synergy HDu's configured in RAID 5. This maximizes our storage space yet maintains the bandwidth needed for the demands of our HD cutting rooms. The safety and redundancy involved with RAID 5 gives us the protection we need as well."
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 Las Vegas, NAB, April 14, 2008 - "NODE™" will instantly set a new industry standard for digital storage technology when the product is unveiled at NAB 2008 by Archion, the media and entertainment industry's leading provider of intelligent storage solutions for content creation. Archion will be exhibiting during NAB at Booth #SL728.
During NAB, Archion will also be demonstrating two of its other new, state of the art storage solution products: Synergy HDδ™ (Delta,) and Synergy HDu™.
"Since our company's inception almost 10 years ago, we have developed our products based on intense research and client outreach. We have proven these efforts with all of our products, especially with our Synergy HDu™ line, which seamlessly attaches to an Avid Unity™ system without any hiccups, while providing the client with RAID 5 protection. Many storage companies have attempted to achieve this in the past, but only Archion has successfully done so," said Mark Bianchi, Archion's CEO.
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Burbank, CA, November 26, 2007 -- Archion, a leading digital storage provider for the film, entertainment and broadcast industries, has announced another success with the selection of the company's Alliance™ network storage system which was used for the post production work of Robert Zemeckis' latest groundbreaking animated film, "Beowulf." That film, released November 16, 2007, is currently the #1 film in America.
"We are very excited to have been a part of this film," Mark Bianchi, Archion's CEO said. "Our corporate mission has always been to provide digital media storage solutions that make the tough work of audio and video post-production easier, more cost-effective, and extremely reliable. We have been proud partners to a number of companies working on some of the world's best films."
Non-Linear Solutions, a Los Angeles-based company, acquired eight terabytes of Archion's Alliance product for us in conjunction with the post production of "Beowulf." "When working in the world of post-production, especially on a big Hollywood movie, a reliable storage solution is essential and Archion provides just such a solution," says Non-Linear Solutions owner/president Danny Friedman.
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