Storage Solution Helps AccessIT Change Motion Pictures To Digital

In an increasingly digital world, traditional theatrical release of movies on film has been an analog holdout. Access Integrated Technologies (AMEX: AIX), or AccessIT, is helping to change that. The company, which ranked third in the United States in 2005 as a "Rising Star" in Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 50 Program, has grown over 5,000 percent in just three years. Among the company's lines of business is the secure distribution of newly released motion pictures to theaters equipped to show them in digital form. The company's DigiCentral service lets subscribers order selections—from movies and concerts to educational materials—from a website and have them delivered directly to their digital projectors via satellite.

According to Erik Levitt, president and COO of AccessIT Managed Services, the market for digital cinema is poised for explosive growth and could expand to thousands of screens across the US. But digital media service is only one item on AccessIT's bill of fare. The company also offers a range of bundled data services—IT outsourcing, mass storage, primary and disaster recovery site services, telecommunications offerings, and security services—through its Colocenters and Managed Services unit. The two services are very different in nature and operation, but one thing they have in common is Xiotech's Magnitude 3D™ for storage management.