With servers and storage constantly getting faster, the hardware that connects it all needs to stay a step ahead. The next generation of media streaming, cloud, flash storage and web-scale environments will all have significant speed and bandwidth requirements.

As an example, today movies and television shows are being shot in 4k, which already requires up to 26 Gb/s of bandwidth per stream to capture, edit, and render. However, 6k and 8k resolutions are being tested and are expected to be hit the market within the next few years.

Your business has been growing over the past decade, and it wasn’t too long ago that you had a server rack installed. At the time one SAS Raid Array made sense because you were planning to virtualize everything.

Now, two hosts and an additional 100 employees later, you need more IOPS and more storage. What can you do with your SAS Raid Array?

ATTO Technology, Inc. is celebrating 30 years as the recognized leader in the IT and Media & Entertainment markets, while specializing in storage and network connectivity and infrastructure solutions for the most data-intensive computing environments.

Last month ATTO released our third generation of FastFrame™ Ethernet network interface cards. FastFrame 3 supports the 25/50/100 Ethernet standard which means our product line now covers the full spectrum of high speed Ethernet from 10Gb/s to 100Gb/s. You can be sure all of our FastFrame products provide unmatched performance, industry lowest latency and the versatility needed for the most demanding and complex ecosystems.

For many developers, illumos, with its streamlined interface and integrated ZFS file system, has become the go-to operating system for many software defined storage, cloud hypervisor and other commercial applications.

Apple’s newest iMac Pro™ is a cutting-edge platform designed by Apple for the professional content creation community. With all of that power, slow connections to storage and to the outside world would be a serious letdown. The ATTO ThunderLink® line is there to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Avid Connect is always a great opportunity to share ideas and talk about the ways ATTO Technology, Inc. works with partners like Avid and creative professionals. This year it was held just prior to NAB, from April 6-8 at Wynn Las Vegas.

Each year at NAB, the conversations revolve around solving production challenges. 4K and 8K workflows are among the most pressing challenges content producers are facing. ATTO showed at NAB how to easily overcome those challenges.

Every year, the Creative Pro User Group (CPUG) Network hosts SuperMeet, a gathering of editors, digital filmmakers and content creators during NAB. SuperMeet started as a grassroots movement 17 years ago and retains that one-on-one feel today.

ATTO Technology is continuing its 30 year history of being a company on the cutting edge of data storage and connectivity solutions at NAB 2018, April 9-12 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Avid® Connect is the annual, must-attend event that happens just before NAB. ATTO Technology, Inc. is a proud sponsor and charter member of Avid Connect – we look forward to meeting up with our partners and peers in Las Vegas!

ATTO and Lenovo bring their performance and reliability solutions to the SuperMeet Community on Tuesday, April 10th, at the 2018 SuperMeet in Las Vegas.

ATTO is now shipping ThunderLink® 3128 Thunderbolt™ 3 to 12Gb SAS/SATA adapter. ThunderLink 3128 is certified for both Mac and Windows to support the growing number of Thunderbolt 3 platforms.

ATTO joined Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) in April, 2018, and is looking forward to guiding and promoting Fibre Channel technology. The FCIA is an international organization of manufacturers, system integrators, developers and other industry professionals committed to supporting and developing Fibre Channel.

ATTO deployed their XstreamCORE™ FC 7550 SAN storage controller as a solution for mega-contractor Torcon. Torcon had three hosts sharing a RAID Array with limited expansion options, and considered replacing everything until ATTO stepped in with a future-ready solution.

The choices and possibilities utilized for Storage Area Networks (SANs) can quickly become overwhelming. A new white paper by IT industry research specialist G2M provides a roadmap through SAN Fabrics, making it easier to identify the proper solutions.

Although NVMe is still in the early stages of adoption, ATTO Celerity™ FC HBAs already support FC-NVMe. The NVMe protocol will allow fast access to flash storage, but only FC-NVMe will unleash its full potential.

Developing a product presents many challenges and often requires a partner to help with the technology. The right partner can keep development times short and costs low while product quality remains high and success more likely.

The MacAdmins conference is being held at Penn State University July 10-13. ATTO will attend as a sponsor, supporting and talking with this diverse group of administrators.

45 Drives recently published a video showing how an ATTO ThunderLink makes connecting to a Storinator easy. This allows Mac users with Thunderbolt enabled machines to take advantage of 10GbE shared storage.

The wait is over for an official method allowing Mac Pro® hosts with ESXi to connect to Fibre Channel storage. ATTO ThunderLink® Thunderbolt™ adapters now have an ATTO VMware Ready™ HCL approved ESXi driver.

CompTIA ChannelCON runs from July 31 through August 2 in Washington, D. C. ATTO will be there for the first time, at booth #406, catching up with industry friends, meeting new ones, and sharing our innovative ideas on network and storage connectivity.

ATTO is celebrating 30 years at the forefront of connectivity technology and, without a doubt, a major factor in our success has been our partnerships. We thank all of partners for their support, of course, and we thought it’d be interesting to talk about some who have been with us a while, like Facilis.

Designing the right SAN amounts to a choice between using Fibre Channel (FC) or Ethernet. FC SANs still have unequalled performance, but can be costly. Ethernet can provide a SAN for less money, but there’s a significant performance penalty comparatively.

ATTO Technology will be exhibiting at the 13th annual Flash Memory Summit August 7-9 in Santa Clara, California (booth #817). The flash memory segment is growing rapidly, and ATTO is part of that growth with products like XstreamCORE® and support for the flash memory optimized protocols NVMe and NVMe-oF.

The 15^th annual VMworld is August 26-30 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, ATTO will be there in booth #2813. We will be at VMworld with a clear message: IT administrators relying on VMware® applications should also rely on ATTO connectivity solutions to optimize and expand the performance of their virtualized platforms.

It was ATTO's third year as a sponsor of the annual MacAdmins conference at Penn State University, and what a great conference it was! We'd like to thank all of those who took the time to visit the ATTO sponsor table.

ATTO continues their 30 year celebration this month by honoring their employees. As founder and president Tim Klein says "celebrating 30 years of success would not be possible without the recognition of all past and present employees."

The new Fibre Channel NVMe (FC-NVMe) protocol is ready to boost performance across all systems like never seen before. NVMe is expected to see major growth across several segments over the next two years.

ATTO is proud to be working in partnership with NetApp to develop unique storage solutions. NetApp is the industry leader for hybrid cloud providing a full range of hybrid cloud data services. By working with NetApp, ATTO enables customers to optimize their IT infrastructure, investments, deploy new capabilities, and accelerate time to market.

Developing a product presents many challenges and often requires a partner to help with the technology. The right partner can keep development times short and costs low while product quality remains high and success more likely.

ATTO will be exhibiting at IBC in booth 7.F41 September 14th through 18th. ATTO is the only company who can meet the demanding connectivity needs of 4K, 6K and 8K video content creation across all storage and network types.

NVMe continues to create a buzz through the industry with its incredible gains in storage access. The evolution of the specification continues with the addition of the FC-NVMe protocol.

With FC-NVMe, Fibre Channel will natively transport NVMe, giving it near direct-attached speed and identical capabilities. The performance increase in flash storage access over Fibre Channel will be nothing short of remarkable.

ATTO Xtend SAN is the most popular iSCSI initiator for macOS® and has been updated to version 5.0 with optimizations for macOS® Mojave.

The new Mojave OS features an updated file system, APFS, that focuses on low-latency and scalability, along with more flexibility in managing partitions. ATTO complements these performance enhancements by fully supporting Mojave.

ATTO has long supported Apple® and Mac users with hardware, software and drivers that compliment that latest platforms and operating systems. Our drivers fully support Mojave and we have updated the most popular iSCSI initiator for macOS, ATTO Xtend SAN, to version 5.0.

NetApp Insight Americas 2018 in Las Vegas October 22-24 held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. ATTO is a proud sponsor of NetApp Insight and a member of the NetApp Alliance Partner Program. Be sure to meet with us at Insight Central during breakout sessions to learn how ATTO enhances NetApp ecosystems.

Recently, ATTO had the pleasure of making a major certification announcement which involved one of our long-time partners, Avid Technology, Inc. ATTO and Avid’s partnership goes back almost 30 years, when both helped to revolutionize digital content creation.

The SMPTE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition is where motion-imaging leaders gather to network, share knowledge and discuss the advancements in industry technologies. ATTO will be in booth 303 - join us as our guest. Register with code SMPTEX2018.

The Javits Convention Center in New York City will host the 2018 NAB Show New York October 17-18. We will have a representative at Global Distribution’s booth N237, so if you’d like to meet with ATTO at NAB New York this should be your first stop.

Do you manage an Avid NEXIS® shared storage environment? Do you want the highest performing, most reliable connectivity to Avid NEXIS hardware? ATTO has your solution!

ATTO ThunderLink® 40GbE and 10GbE Thunderbolt™ 3 adapters and 40GbE FastFrame™ Network Interface Cards (NICs) have been certified for use with the latest Avid NEXIS collaborative shared storage solutions. This mean NEXIS users can take their production efficiency to the next level.

One of our solutions to the ever-changing architectures and the challenge of moving data is our groundbreaking line of ATTO XstreamCORE® storage controllers. ATTO XstreamCORE FC 7600 32Gb Fibre Channel to 12Gb SAS storage controller is the latest addition to that line.

Three out of four businesses depend on virtualization technology, with the vast majority of these using VMware ESXi™ as their primary hypervisor. For well over a decade ATTO has been optimizing storage networking and connectivity products for VMware environments.

The SC conference is a unique event where scientists, engineers, developers, and others in high tech gather for an intense and extensive program on high performance computing. ATTO will be at home within this community in Dallas November 11-16.

The reach of ATTO has no bounds, exemplified by our presence in Japan this month for Inter BEE 2018. Inter BEE will take up all eight halls at Makuhari Messe near Tokyo November 14-16, 2018. Inter BEE is an excellent opportunity for ATTO to interact personally with media professionals on the other side of the globe.