IRVINE, Calif. — July 2, 2009 — Sonnet Technologies today announced a new, faster 1TB version of its multiple-award-winning Fusion™ F2 portable two-drive RAID SATA storage system that employs 7,200-RPM drives. The fastest storage solution of its kind, the system offers 20 percent faster performance than the original Fusion F2 1TB model with up to 190 MB/sec read and write sustained data transfer rates, and may be bus-powered to enable usage when grid power is unavailable. The diminutive system consists of two 2.5-inch, 500MB drives mounted side by side in a rugged aluminum enclosure, features two eSATA data ports for maximum data throughput, and is designed for use with the Sonnet Tempo™ SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 controller for MacBook® Pro and Windows® notebooks. more

IRVINE, Calif. — July 2, 2009 — Sonnet Technologies today announced that it has reduced the price of its Tempo™ SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 to $199.95, a reduction of $100. The fastest 2-port eSATA controller available for ExpressCard slots, the SATA card supports sustained data throughput of up to 200 MB/sec. Unlike most other eSATA ExpressCard adapters, the Tempo SATA Pro supports 4 GB and 8 GB of RAM in MacBook® Pro computers. more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 16, 2009 — Omneon Inc. today announced that GMA Network, Inc., the Philippines’ leading free-to-air media broadcast company, has expanded its Omneon Spectrum™ systems to establish a streamlined file-based workflow at its Manila facility. GMA Network uses a Spectrum media server system to support its Apple® Final Cut Pro® edit workflow, and the company’s addition of a mirrored Spectrum playout system enables fast transfer and direct playback of QuickTime® files generated by the Apple edit system without any rewrapping or transcoding. more

Australia’s Inner Sanctum Media uses EditShare Storage Series for media sharing

Sydney, Australia – June 15, 2009 – EditShare™, the technology leader in cross platform collaborative editing and shared media storage, announced today that Inner Sanctum Media (ISM) based in Brisbane, Australia deployed an EditShare 8TB storage system to facilitate production workflows during the hugely successful “Best Job in the World” competition. more

During the recent unveiling of the Apple Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard product, Small Tree’s PEG6, a six-port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapter, was recognized as a critical factor in Snow Leopard achieving SPEC benchmarking speeds twice as fast as its predecessor. Now the general public knows what an increasing number of post-production professionals across the country know – Small Tree networking and shared storage technology enables your data to move as fast as it possibly can. more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 9, 2009 — Omneon Inc. today announced that StarHub Cable Vision, Ltd. of Singapore has selected the company’s MediaGrid™ active storage system as the core of its new, fully automated tapeless workflow. The MediaGrid system has already been installed and is in active operation. more

Santa Fe Springs, Calif. –Enhance Technology, Inc. (ETI), an international leader in data storage solutions today announced a new and exciting partnership with Mwave.com, a leading eCommerce concentrated on computer components, peripherals and electronics. This venture will enable end-users, corporations, VARs and various institutions access to a variety of desktop and Enterprise storage sub-systems. more

A leading producer of the direct response infomercials we all know and love – Swivel Sweeper, OxiClean and Smart Chopper – as well as the subject of Discovery Channel’s popular “Pitchmen” series, Sullivan Productions recently took the Small Tree challenge to see if Small Tree’s scalable, cost-efficient shared storage technology was the right solution for their workflow needs. After struggling with its workflow for months, Sullivan Productions is completing projects much more easily thanks to Small Tree’s Edge-corE ES4524D, a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, along with its PEG6 6-port Ethernet card – both of which are a part of Small Tree’s new GraniteSTOR product line. more

Turnkey solutions - EditShare Flow, EditShare Storage Series, XStream Series and EditShare Ark

London, United Kingdom – May 28, 2009 – EditShare™ today announced plans for participation at several European trade shows to demonstrate the latest enhancements to their Complete Collaboration product line, which offers media acquisition, sharing, storage and archiving products for Postproduction, DI and Broadcast multi-editing workgroups. EditShare will join with some of its premier European resellers at the upcoming shows, including “Open Day with Kit Digital” in Prague, the Czech Republic on June 18th and “Digitale Cinematographie 2009” with Videocation at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany on June 25th and 26th. more

As business continued to grow for DNP Studios (DNP), an industry leader in full-service film and high-definition video production/post-production, so too did the agency’s concerns about its workflow. With three fully stocked post-production suites in its new, custom-built, 10,000-square-foot facility featuring MAC Pro’s with 8 gigs of RAM, DNP needed a shared storage system capable of sharing HD footage in real time without dropping frames. To meet its technical requirements, the agency recently installed shared storage technology from Small Tree, designer of simple-to-install, inexpensive Mac-based networking and shared storage products for professional video and audio editors, and the results have been exceptional thus far. more