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Ultera
Delivers Mirage Marine Recorder For Marine Seismic Data
Recording
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Oct. 29, 2007 – Ultera Systems
Inc.(www.ultera.com), a leading provider of high-performance
virtual tape libraries, announced today that it is now
shipping the Mirage Marine Recorder (MMR) designed to meet
and exceed the performance, capacity and reliability
requirements of major 3D and full-wave marine seismic data
acquisition and processing operations.
Ultera’s MMR appears as an IBM 3590/3592 or LTO tape drive,
providing plug and play compatibility to any data
acquisition system and is available with either Fibre
channel or SCSI interfaces. Channel counts of existing
acquisition systems can be increased to take advantage of
the MMR’s increased data recording speed, i.e., 150MB/sec
sustained recording speed compared to the 25MB/sec of
existing disk based marine recording systems. Productivity
can easily be doubled and QC can be accomplished directly on
the high performance RAID.
The MMR implements a virtual tape autoloader with multiple
virtual tape volumes. It automatically loads the next
virtual tape volume upon executing the unload command from
the acquisition system so the next blank volume is instantly
available for recording. The data on the RAID is recorded in
actual tape format. All recording formats are supported,
including SEG-Y and SEG-D technical standards.
“The MMR utilizes proven features of the Mirage Virtual
Tape Library family of products; dual porting which provides
real-time monitoring and multiple virtual volumes for
non-stop recording, as well as auto-archiving to
conventional tape drive technologies. The end result is the
MMR, a perfect fit for marine survey and exploration
companies,” said Mo Nour, president and CEO of Ultera
Systems, Inc.
According to Casey Jordan, vice president of system support
for Seismic Equipment Solutions, “Ultera has demonstrated a
unique ability to deliver disk based virtual tape solutions
that meet the requirements of the seismic data acquisition
industry. The capability to archive/copy seismic test
volumes to any attached tape drive is a huge plus, enabling
efficiency, productivity, and cost saving throughout the
entire data acquisition/data distribution process. We have
tested the Ultera Mirage Data Recorder (MDR) for land
seismic systems with industry popular systems from Sercel,
ION (Input/Output), and others.”
The MMR is offered in a 2U rackmount configuration
consisting of a 1U Mirage Controller and a 1U RAID system.
The RAID system can be configured as a RAID 5 protected 3TB
volume or a RAID 10 protected 2TB volume, depending on the
level of fault tolerance and performance desired. The 3TB
capacity is divided into user configurable tape volume sizes
and can be increased to up to 15TB and 1000 virtual tape
volumes to insure continuous data recording. MSRP is
$49,000 with immediate availability.
About SES
Seismic Equipment Solutions LP (SES) provides products and
services on a global basis in the field of oil and gas
exploration, including the, lease, lease/purchase, sale, and
technical support of new, used, and re-certified
instrumentation used in land seismic acquisition.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, SES is an “Approved Support
Partner” of Input/Output, Inc. and a Certified Repair Center
for Sercel equipment. Additional information is available at
http://www.globalses.com.
About Ultera Systems
Founded in 1994, Ultera designs and delivers
high-performance technologies for tape, virtual tape and
other removable storage devices. The company’s proprietary
tape RAID ASIC design incorporates the latest technology
available to achieve maximum performance and data
reliability. Ultera hard disk based virtual tape libraries,
tape arrays, optical arrays and media duplication products
are marketed and sold through major OEMs, storage
integrators, technology providers, resellers and
distributors. For more information phone (949) 367-8880,
email inform@ultera.com,
or visit http://www.ultera.com.
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Contact
Daly-Swartz PR for Ultera Systems
Jeffrey
Swartz, 949.470.0075
jeffreyswartz@dsprel.com
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