"Fast access to and efficient management of data, and hardware, and particularly software innovations, such as Tiger Technology’s metaSAN, are the catalysts for success in today’s collaborative, heavy-bandwidth work environments."

 

Robi Roncarelli, Market Analyst, PIXEL Inc.

"I am giving metaSAN five stars! If I ever end up working in another facility that needs to implement a SAN, I will definitely recommend it. I’d also recommend it to anyone involved in video that needs a file-level sharing SAN."

 

Joe Kirby, Assistant Chief Engineer, FOX 54 – WZDX TV

"With metaSAN/metaLAN in place, every artist has instant access to data by simply clicking on the local hard drive in “My Computer” – and all this without having to perform sophisticated network administration."

 

Alex Rizov, FX Supervisor, Topform Studio

"I recommend metaSAN to anyone investigating a shared storage solution, especially to anyone Final Cut Pro based production house wanting to maximize their multi-station editing workflow."

 

Graeme Nattress, President of Nattress Productions Inc.

"metaSAN is the ideal SAN management solution for Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Gigabit Ethernet networks. So far, we have tested metaSAN with Huge Media-Vault and Fibrenetix Storage systems, Qlogic SANBox switches, and Atto Celerity host bus adapters and have never experienced any compatibility issues."

 

Jörg Hoffman, PSIBER GmbH

"I’m using an HP xw9300 with 4 x SATA2 drives and a Bluefish444 HD Lust board. Whenever trying to capture DPX files, the system would run for 100-250 frames and then drops frames. After installing metaSAN and using DDO and FSO the system can now capture DPX files without any problem!"

 

Gerbrand De Ridder, Trans Tec bv

"Our customers have been clamouring for tools that will help them add intelligence to their workgroups. We are very pleased to be working with Tiger Technology to address this demand."

 

Howard Solomon, President, Integrity Data Systems

"By turning off-the shelf storage and networking components into versatile, easy to support, and highly scalable shared storage workgroups, metaSAN is ideally suited to solve a wide range of workflow configurations at a great price."

 

John Connolly, Midwest Media Group President

"metaSAN’s unique ability to allow multiple cross-platform users to share content and collaborate efficiently while maintaining very high bandwidth will afford us a highly efficient, reliable, centralized and secure storage solution."

 

Michio Fujii, CEO and President, MIC Assosciates, Inc.

metaSAN 4.2 now available

Jan 22, 2010

Tiger Technology is proud to announce the immediate availability of maintenance release 4.2 of metaSAN, metaSAN iSCSI, metaLAN Server, and metaLAN with improved performance and support for FilmLightOS Kernel 2.6.9-3676.

New in version 4.2:

  • (Mac) Support Re-sharing of SAN Volumes through NFS on Clients
  • (Mac) Improved Uninstall on Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard
  • (Mac) Improved Reading of Small Files from NTFS Volumes
  • (Win) Improved Performance Using Adobe CS4 and other Rich Media Applications
  • (Win) Stability Fixes
  • (Win) Improved support of SAN Volumes Accessed as Network Shares
  • (Linux) Support for FilmLightOS Kernel 2.6.9-3676
  • (Linux) Improved Files Copy on Striped HFS+ Volume from Linux
  • (Linux) Improved metaLAN Connectivity

Known limitations:

  • (Mac) Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.x 64-bit not yet available
  • (Mac) Mac OS X Tiger workstations can no longer be master if there are Snow Leopard machines in the SAN

Upgrade eligibility:

All users under Subscription are eligible to the 4.x upgrade, as well as users who have acquired ALL their site licenses after October 1st 2008.

Please note that this upgrade process is not automatic for 3.x users. It is necessary to send an email with the subject "4.x Upgrade Request" to support@tiger-technology.com. This email must include the login information.

 

IMPORTANT: Once an account has been upgraded to 4.x, access to previous builds of metaSAN will no longer be possible.

Let us know if you have any questions.

The Tiger Technology team