Atto Delivers 8Gb FC Connectivity for Mac Users

ATTO Technology, Inc. provides Mac users FC connectivity with enterprise-class storage on the HP P2000 G3 FC Modular Smart Array (MSA) storage system.

ATTO will feature this Celerity FC HBAs with Multipath Director solution at IBC in Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 9-13.

Mac OS X has been the platform of choice for creative professionals. Increased resolutions and project complexity have pushed users to grow their storage footprint. ATTO’s Multipath Director, when combined with ATTO’s 8Gb/s Celerity FC HBAs offers the market a storage solution for Macintosh environments. This combination allows HP to provide solutions to vertical markets that have formerly been outside its usual channels.

ATTO’s Celerity line of HBAs are 8Gb/sec FC host bus adapters that provide high-performance connectivity to storage for Mac platforms, a solution useful in media and entertainment, healthcare, oil and gas, government and education, scientific, advertising and rich content digital asset creation.

"ATTO has found that Mac users in rich-content creation environments have been looking for support for more robust shared storage solutions," said Tom Kolniak, director of products at ATTO Technology, Inc. "For the first time, professionals using the most demanding Apple-based applications can meet those needs with the HP P2000 G3 FC Modular Storage Array connected using ATTO’s Celerity FC HBAs."

With this offering, Mac Final Cut Pro users also have the ability to add an HP MSL series tape library for archiving content in their post production environment. This is an end to end solution providing a tiered disk to tape architecture designed for use in Final Cut Pro editing environments enabling users to better manage key digital assets while maintaining a low cost of ownership.

ATTO products are available in the EMEA region from Global Distribution.