Live Webinar - Future Proof Capture: Best Practices for Planning Your Server and Storage Strategy

MADISON, Wis. - September 18, 2009 - In the last 12 months, the number of Mediasite-equipped rooms, hours of operation and webcast viewership have exploded. In a live webinar, Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO) will present case studies of three highly successful, real-life Mediasite application, database, video and storage architecture scenarios that are in current production.

WHEN: Tuesday, September 22, 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Central
WHERE: To register for this complimentary webinar, visit www.sonicfoundry.com/webinar

Large and small universities, corporations and government agencies are capturing, distributing and having to manage more online presentation content than ever before. Systems engineer Tom Irons will explore the options and best practices for deploying appliance-based webcasting platforms as demand for capture increases and IT and AV environments become more complex.

He will also compare key planning decisions as success variables in an analysis of these environments, including:

• Size and manner of storage
• Availability and concurrent viewership strategies
• Network provisioning
• Server hardware selection
• and virtualization

Presenter:
Before joining Sonic Foundry as director of Systems Engineering, Tom Irons was the manager for Smart Classroom and Emerging Technology at East Carolina University, responsible for over 100 classrooms. At ECU, he was among the principal architects of the Mediasite server support infrastructure which to this day remains one of the largest and most prolific classroom content capture infrastructures in the world. In his current role, Tom and his team are in touch with virtually every Mediasite installation around the globe. Tom holds a M.S. in Industrial Technology from ECU, the instruction portion for which he reportedly received primarily via Mediasite.

Moderator:
Sean Brown, Sonic Foundry's VP of Education