422 Manchester Selects Sledgehammer HD!O as Core Facility Infrastructure

System Bridges the Video and IT Worlds

Montreal, CANADA, October 3, 2007 — Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), developers of ultra high performance software-based solutions for networked storage infrastructure and media management, announced today that 422 Manchester Ltd. in Manchester, England has purchased a Sledgehammer HD!O system to unify their video and IT domains and simplify the flow of jobs.

Peter Liston, the Chief Engineer at 422 Manchester, offered the following, “Earlier this year we decided to upgrade our infrastructure and went looking for a system that could bridge the requirements for both our traditional, video-centric gear as well as more file focused IT needs. Sledgehammer HD!O proved to be the only system that could effectively handle both, and at a cost that fit well within our budget.”

422 Manchester deals with a variety of different work, from standard definition to high definition, and handles all aspects of a project from 3D modeling and animation, through to compositing and editing. Liston continued, “We were spending huge amounts of time shuttling data through the facility, formatting and reformatting to our various needs. With Sledgehammer, we now simply load the material onto the system and access it from any point in the facility, in whatever fashion is required. In fact, we’ve been able to take on jobs that we would have previously refused without the Sledgehammer in place.”

“Looking back, I’m stunned by all the aggravation and wasted time that could have been avoided had we had the system in place sooner. With every new day we’re discovering more and more things that the Sledgehammer can do, from real-time resizing, to offline format conversions, and file sequence playout, and I can’t help but wonder how did we get the work done without it,” said Liston in closing.

John Miller, Max-T’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales added the following, “We’re very pleased that 422 Manchester is solving so many workflow issues with their Sledgehammer. The capabilities that we’ve added to the system over the past years were designed specifically to harmonize the video and data realities that every post facility in the world is facing.”

About 422 Manchester
422 Manchester (www.422.tv) is a creative hotshop on the post-production scene. Big enough to offer the full spectrum of cutting-edge techniques, small enough to still be fun, it’s becoming increasingly sought out by high-profile clients in the commercials and broadcast industry.

About Maximum Throughput
Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com) is a media management tool developer and networked storage provider. Max-T’s media aware storage solutions deliver extremely high performance over commodity networks, using smart software that runs on industry standard hardware. Software-based, media management tools are tightly integrated within the product line, delivering enriched functionality in a single, versatile solution. Having pioneered the development of shared storage solutions that can be simultaneously accessed over both data and video networks, Max-T offers products with unparalleled performance, capacity management, and capacity availability, as well as having the lowest total cost-of-ownership in their class.

For more information please contact:

John Miller
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing,
Maximum Throughput

Phone: (978) 946-9408
Email: jmiller@max-t.com

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