System Requirements

Asset Bank : High Performing Digital Asset Manager

Asset Bank is a flexible web-based digital asset management solution, which will run on most servers and operating systems. If you are aiming to host your image library software on your own server then this page explains the system requirements for the server.

The system requirements for the clients (i.e. on the users’ computers) are very simple - all a user needs is a browser!

Please contact us if you want to discuss the requirements for your server in more detail.

Operating System

Image Library for Windows
Asset Bank will run on any Windows Operating System from Windows 95 upwards. However, for maximum performance we recommend Windows 2000, XP or one of the Windows Servers (e.g. Windows Server 2008, 2000 Server or 2003 Server).

A common configuration for Asset Bank on a Windows server is to run IIS (as the web server), MS SQL Server (as the database) and integrate with Active Directory for authentication.

Image Library for Linux or Unix
Asset Bank will run on any Linux or Unix Operating System that supports Java and on which ImageMagick can be installed.

Asset Bank can be installed on a Virtual Server, assuming that its OS meets the above criteria.

Memory

Although Asset Bank will run fine with less, for performance reasons we recommend that the server has at least 2GB of RAM.

As image manipulations are memory intensive you will see significant performance increases if you add more RAM. For heavily used Asset Banks we suggest 4GB or more - after all, memory is pretty cheap these days!

Disk Capacity

Your server needs to have enough free disk space to store all of the images/documents that you intend to add to your repository.

You can configure Asset Bank’s ‘Storage Devices’ to enable you to store your assets in one or more locations, for example on a disk local to the server, network drives or NAS and SAN devices.

Technical Architecture

For more detailed technical information, please see Asset Bank's technical architecture »

We also provide hosting: see our options for hosting our digital assets »
If you want to find out more about Asset Bank, as a Windows image library or Linux image library, give us a call on +44 (0)1273 201 112 or contact us online now
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