ATTO Reliability and Performance for Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X
September 23, 2010

ATTO Reliability and Performance for Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X

Amherst, NY - ATTO Technology, Inc., leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announces the most complete offering of storage connectivity options for Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X software.  ATTO's high-performance host bus adapters (HBAs) and RAID adapters meet Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X bandwidth requirements to ensure fast and interactive editorial finishing with real-time uncompressed playback at any supported format.

The consistently reliable, high-performance connectivity provided by ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel HBAs and ATTO ExpressSAS SAS/SATA HBAs and RAID adapters is essential in Smoke editorial finishing work-flows where deadlines are tight and performance is a must even when working with uncompressed media.  "Autodesk's long-standing partnership with ATTO made them the perfect choice to qualify the Celerity 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs for Smoke on Mac OS X.  Using ATTO technology with Smoke for Mac allows editors to concentrate on being creative without worrying about bandwidth or performance limitations ­ even when delivering uncompressed HD, 2K, or stereoscopic 3D finished results," states Marc Bolduc, product development manager, Autodesk Media & Entertainment.

The combination of Autodesk Smoke for Mac  and ATTO HBAs and RAID adapters, equals a powerful finishing solution offering the highest level of performance and reliability on the Mac OS X platform.

ATTO Celerity and ExpressSAS products are available through a wide network of domestic and international partners.