Editing Ampex (section)

{{Short description|American company that pioneered the use of videotape}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Ampex Data Systems Corporation
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| logo = Ampex Logo.svg
| founded = {{start date and age|1944}}
| founder = [[Alexander M. Poniatoff|Alexander Poniatoff]]
| hq_location_city = [[Hayward, California]]
| hq_location_country = United States
| industry = Data and instrumentation technology for acquisition, storage, and processing of visual information
| products = miniR 700 Mini-Recorder, TuffServ 540 & 640 smart NAS, TuffCORD smart NAS, AMux700 DAU, BLUE IQ deep-learning data management, BLUE Sentry on-board cyber security
| parent = Delta Information Systems
| website = {{URL|http://www.ampex.com}}
}}
[[Image:Ampex corporation.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Former Ampex headquarters on Broadway in Redwood City, California]]

'''Ampex Data Systems Corporation''' is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by [[Alexander M. Poniatoff]] as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor.<ref name="EarlyDaysAmpex" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Nmungwun |first=Aaron Foisi |title=Video Recording Technology: Its Impact on Media and Home Entertainment |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdIjgeedgRwC&q=Dalmo+Victor+Company&pg=PA75 |date=November 12, 2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136466045}}</ref> The name ''AMPEX'' is an [[acronym]], created by its founder, which stands for '''A'''lexander '''M'''. '''P'''oniatoff '''Ex'''cellence.<ref name="ampex.name">Abramson,[https://books.google.com/books?id=JMTnTBmt7F0C&pg=PA286 The History of television, 1942 to 2000] – McFarland, 2003 – {{ISBN|9780786412204}}, page 286, Chapter 2, footnote 34 "1944 he founded Ampex (the name was created from his initials, AMP, plus "ex" for excellence)"</ref> Ampex operates as Ampex Data Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Delta Information Systems, and consists of two business units. The Silicon Valley unit, known internally as Ampex Data Systems (ADS), manufactures digital data storage systems capable of functioning in harsh environments. The [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]], unit, referred to as Ampex Intelligent Systems (AIS), serves as a laboratory and hub for the company's line of industrial control systems, cyber security products and services and its [[artificial intelligence]]/[[machine learning]] technology.

Ampex's first great success was a line of [[reel-to-reel tape recorder]]s developed from the German wartime [[Magnetophon]] system at the behest of [[Bing Crosby]]. Ampex quickly became a leader in audio tape technology, developing many of the analog recording formats for both music and movies that remained in use into the 1990s. Starting in the 1950s, the company began developing [[video tape recorder]]s, and later introduced the [[helical scan]] concept that made home video players possible. They also introduced multi-track recording, slow-motion and instant playback television, and a host of other advances. Ampex's tape business was rendered obsolete during the 1990s, and the company turned to digital storage products.

Ampex moved into digital storage for [[DoD]] [[Flight Test Instrumentation]] (FTI) with the introduction of the first, true all digital flight test recorder. Ampex supports numerous major DoD programs with the [[US Air force|US Air Force]], [[US Army]], [[US Marines]], [[US Navy]] and other government entities ([[NASA]], [[DHS]] and national labs). Ampex also works with all major DoD primes and integrators including [[Boeing]], [[General Atomics]], [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed]], [[Northrop Grumman|Northrop]], [[Raytheon]] and many others.

Currently, Ampex is attempting to do more with the data stored on its [[network attached storage]] (NAS) devices. This includes adding encryption for  secure data storage; algorithms focused on control system cyber security for infrastructure and aerospace platforms; and artificial intelligence/machine learning for automated entity identification and data analytics.