Media Blitz Announces Windows NT Solution for Optical Jukeboxes

PALO ALTO, CA, October 11, 1994 -- Media Blitz, Inc. today introduced its
Jukebox Librarian software solution for integration and management of
optical jukeboxes for Windows NT 3.5. It can be used on both the Intel x86
and DEC Alpha platforms. Jukebox Librarian provides developers of imaging,
publishing, and storage management applications with powerful middleware
software to access optical jukeboxes. Jukebox Librarian is the first in a
planned series of optical jukebox and tape library solutions for the
emerging Windows NT and Chicago platforms.

Media Blitz President T.M. Ravi said, "Windows NT is the platform of choice
for new workgroup and department systems. It is a particularly attractive
platform for emerging imaging, document management, multimedia and video
applications. We offer one of the first optical jukebox management
solutions for Windows NT that enables applications to access large storage
capacities at low cost."

Application developers can now add support for optical jukeboxes using
Jukebox Librarian's high level Application Programming Interface (API)
that simplifies access to a jukebox and hides its complexities.

Jukebox Librarian has jukebox management features that include: platter
management, mount management, automatic drive selection, multiple client
access, tracking of on-line as well as off-line media, and statistics
reporting to support maintenance and media life cycle management. It
includes the SCSI autochanger device driver for Windows NT.

Jukebox Librarian provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) with
drag-and-drop features for end-users to access and administer an optical
jukebox.

Jukebox Librarian is an implementation of the Physical Volume Repository
(PVR) component of the emerging IEEE Storage Systems Standards.

It supports SCSI optical jukeboxes from different vendors including the
popular line of HP optical jukeboxes. The external API is common to all
jukeboxes and hence writing applications to the Jukebox Librarian API
enables access to a wide range of jukeboxes.

Formed in 1992 and based in Palo Alto, California, Media Blitz, Inc.
provides advances in storage management and data management solutions for
emerging applications.

Media Blitz Inc
450 San Antonio Rd, #39
Palo Alto, CA 94306
415-494-0130,  fax 415-494-1278

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