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

• Press Release
• Source: Sonic Foundry, Inc.
• On 9:53 am EDT, Friday September 18, 2009

MADISON, Wis., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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 - News) 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/?sm=6

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

About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.

Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO, www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing enterprise communication solutions for more than 1,500 customers in education, business and government. Powered by Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings, Sonic Foundry empowers people to transform the way they communicate. Through the Mediasite platform and its Events Services group, the company helps customers connect a dynamic, evolving world of shared knowledge and envisions a future where learners and workers around the globe use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve performance.

Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.

Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products, its ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services and/or systems, the effect of new competitors in its market, integration of acquired business and other risk factors identified from time to time in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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