Rorke Data and Avnet

by Herbie Joe Rorke on July 12, 2010

As of July 6th, 2010 Rorke Data is now officially owned by Avnet, Inc. As Rorke Data marks its 25th year we are proud and excited to be part of Avnet, a leading global technology distributor of IT components and systems. Rorke Data will continue to serve its own customers, and soon Rorke’s award winning Galaxy family of RAID solutions will be available through Avnet as well.

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Rorke Data is at SIIM 2010 – Booth 536

by Herbie Joe Rorke on June 3, 2010

Stop by booth #536 and see what Rorke Data can do for you. 
June 3-6 in Minneapolis

Helping you manage, secure, archive and migrate your patient data with our solutions and services. We’re here to help accelerate clinical workflow and turnaround time for radiologists, cardiologists and other caregivers.

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Rorke Data gives to Animal Humane Society

by Herbie Joe Rorke on June 2, 2010

In March, Amber Carlson organized a goods drive to benefit the Animal Humane Society here in Minnesota. Amber’s campaign collected “wish list” items, including 9 bags of dog toys, boxes of towels, newspapers, cat toys and litter, and dog food. The AHS is a private non-profit organization striving to create a more humane world for animals. AHS offers animal adoption and surrender, educational/outreach programs fostering humane values and animal responsibility, and pet services including education and boarding. Due to the economic downturn, shelters everywhere are experiencing more surrenders than ever, and Amber felt this was a great way to show support and help the animals. www.animalhumanesociety.org

See how else Rorke Data is giving back. click here now

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Rorke employees participate in Race For The Cure

by Herbie Joe Rorke on June 1, 2010

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® is the most successful charity event ever created, and has changed the way the world views breast cancer. On Mother’s Day at the Mall of America, Jennifer Anderson, her cousins, her aunt and her sister (along with over 50,000 other participants!) raced to celebrate survivorship, honor those who have lost their battle, and most importantly, raise funds and awareness for the fight against this life threatening disease. Jennifer and team walked in honor and support of her mother who underwent treatment this past year. She is hopeful that her mother will be strong enough to join Jennifer on the walk next year!

The Twin Cities event raised over $2.5M for breast cancer research, screening and preliminary treatment programs.

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Rorke employees give their time to Caring Bridge

by Herbie Joe Rorke on May 27, 2010

In April, Rorke employees headed up by Rob Hill assisted Caring Bridge in assembling over 1400 annual report mailers. CaringBridge is a nonprofit organization providing free websites that connect family and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery. A CaringBridge website is personal, private and available 24/7. It helps ease the burden of keeping family and friends informed. Many Rorke employees have used Caring Bridge to support several of our co-workers who have become ill or have been struggling with a health crisis. Authors add health updates and photos to share their story while visitors leave messages of love and support in the guestbook. www.caringbridge.org

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Rorke Data will be at SIIM 2010

by Herbie Joe Rorke on May 7, 2010

Stop by booth #536 and see what Rorke Data can do for you. 
June 3-6 in Minneapolis

Helping you manage, secure, archive and migrate your patient data with our solutions and services. We’re here to help accelerate clinical workflow and turnaround time for radiologists, cardiologists and other caregivers.

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Joe Rorke Post Magazine NAB Interview

by Herbie Joe Rorke on April 20, 2010

From the tradeshow floor at 2010 NAB Rorke Data product overview and interview by Post Magazine.

Joe Rorke overviews new features and performance capabilities of Galaxy Aurora with HyperFS, called HyperDrive ►™, as well as the latest in content addressable disk-based archival solutions for digital media with Infinivault

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Rorke Data announces their Aurora RAID with HyperDrive

by Herbie Joe Rorke on April 14, 2010

Aurora is a purpose-built direct-attach RAID or SAN appliance that is a natural addition to Rorke’s open architecture philosophy. HyperDrive™, developed by Rorke Data and FalconStor is a scalable, high-performance storage area network (SAN) that keeps post workflows on time and on budget, and helps ensure profitable operations. HyperDrive™ offers the Video, Film, and Broadcast industries an outstanding performance/cost per gigabyte ratio while delivering high performance scalability and redundancy. [click to continue…]

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RORKE DATA AND FALCONSTOR PARTNER FOR SAN AT NAB

by Herbie Joe Rorke on April 13, 2010

Rorke Launches HyperDrive, High-Performance Shared Storage for DPX and HD Post Production Workflows

NAB SHOW, LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 14, 2010 Rorke Data Inc., an end-to-end storage solutions provider that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ: BELM), today announced at NAB that it has partnered with FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, for a high-performance shared storage solution: HyperDrive. [click to continue…]

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MTI FILM SELECTS RORKE DATA’S GALAXY AURORA RAID PLATFORM

by Herbie Joe Rorke on April 12, 2010

Low-cost, High-performance Aurora RAID Optimizes Time-Sensitive Digital Dailies Workflow for MTI Film and its Clients

NAB SHOW, LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 12, 2010, Booth #SL9629 Rorke Data Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ: BELM), and a data storage-centric, end-to-end all digital solutions provider to the film and video post-production and broadcast industries, today announced that MTI Film, the developer of Control Dailies™, has selected Rorke’s Galaxy® Aurora RAID platform.  With an MSRP starting at under $1/GB and sustained transfer rates of 2300 MB/s, the Aurora RAID is ideal for high-resolution, multi-stream post production environments, and is already deployed at MTI Film customer facilities.  The Galaxy Aurora is a also key component in-house at MTI, giving the company the ability to handle the storage-intensive work load of digital dailies production and delivery. [click to continue…]

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RORKE DATA SHIPS 10,000th GALAXY RAID STORAGE SYSTEM

April 8, 2010

Storage Hungry Applications Embrace Purpose-built, Scalable Storage Solutions
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., April 8, 2009 — Rorke Data Inc., a data storage-centric, end-to-end solutions provider that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ: BELM), today announced that it has surpassed a major milestone: The company has shipped 10,000 of its Galaxy® RAID storage systems worldwide.
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SSL DV ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR RORKE DATA

April 8, 2010

Drive Support Allows for Massive Data Transfer and Archive Storage
LAS VEGAS, NV – The newly formed SSL DV, Inc., a Solid State Logic Company, is pleased to announce that the Gravity Media Asset Management system family of products now supports Galaxy® HDX3 RAID storage from Rorke Data and InfiniVault® secure archive storage from ProStor Systems [...]

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Rorke Data at NAB 2010 – Booth SL9629

March 18, 2010

 
 
 
Rorke Data with be at NAB in Las Vegas Nevada, April 12-15, 2010
 

Booth SL9629

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Rorke Data’s Aurora Certified for IRIDAS

March 17, 2010

Aurora is certified for IRIDAS Digital Post and Film Workflows
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., — Rorke Data Inc., a data storage-centric, end-to-end solutions provider that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts [NASDAQ:BELM], today announced that its new Galaxy® Aurora and Galaxy HDX2 have been certified by IRIDAS, a leader in digital cinema workflow technologies. Further, [...]

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Rorke Data & Seagate Rock the Media & Entertainment World

March 15, 2010

In the world of broadcasting and entertainment, there are several new major advances in technology driving high-end content creation which in turn is driving demand for high performance, high capacity systems with hard disk drives that support this infrastructure.

Technologies like HD Video, 3D, VFX, DPX (digital picture exchange) film are all driving large volumes of [...]

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Starz Animation in Toronto Canada selects Rorke Data’s Galaxy Aurora

March 8, 2010

Starz Animation is a CG animation house that produces CG theatrical release movies.  The Galaxy Aurora’s compact size, ease of installation and ability to deliver what it is advertised to do, made it an ideal solution for Starz.  They highly recommend it for anyone in need of a high bandwidth storage solution.

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Quality: It’s Not Just An Assumed Value

February 26, 2010

As an ISO 9001 certified company since 2002, Rorke Data’s quality plan is regularly audited.  Recently, Rorke has been audited against the ISO 9001:2008 standard and has successfully passed this audit.  As a result, Rorke is ISO 9001:2008 certified for 2010 through 2012.  Recertification of the ISO 13485:2003 standard, a comprehensive [...]

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Taking Time for Others

February 19, 2010

On February 11, Rorke employees, led by Lori Thrune packaged food for Feed My Starving Children, a Minnesota – based non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals formulated specially for starving children, and we [...]

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Rorke Data Celebrates 25 Years

February 3, 2010

Welcome to Rorke Data’s very 1st blog post. We are excited to join our peers and customers in a pro-active manner in the blogosphere.
On Feb 4th, 2010 we will mark our 25th anniversary. To celebrate Rorke Data’s 25th year in business, we launched the “Rorke 25 for 25 Initiative,” the goal of which is to carry out 25 [...]

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Rorke Partners at GV Expo with Global Technologies

December 1, 2009

Rorke partners with Global Techonologies to showcase secure, compliant RAID ,SAN, and Archive Solutions at GV Expo 2009
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center | December 1-3, 2009 | Booth  #409
Rorke Data, the leading provider of computer storage and archive systems will unveil its latest generation Galaxy HDX3 RAID in the Galaxy family to the post [...]

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