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I came across this glowing 5-star review of the new Infortrend EonStor DS 1024B and thought it worthy of sharing. Particular praise was given to the exemplary performance the system delivers via 16Gb/s Fibre Channel and its hybrid host design, which enables FC SAN and IP SAN in one, plus diverse data services.

I’ve had a couple of friends ask me how to do this, so I thought a little guide would be handy, so please read on as we go through how to format external storage to ext3 and automounting in linux – all commands are in bold, please use your own /dev/* device that gets listed in place of mine.

Avid Technologies recently announced major changes to how customers can purchase & support future versions of Media Composer®. Previously, a new copy of Media Composer® could be purchased for $1,099, while customers that had previous versions would be able to upgrade at a discount rate. Customers can now purchase Media Composer® in 4 ways, including monthly/yearly subscriptions, perpetual license or floating license pack. Regardless of purchase method, clients can either continue making monthly/yearly payments, or with perpetual licenses, pay for support (after the first year), in order to receive future versions. This new flexible method aims to simplify future MC upgrades, but also makes it imperative to renew yearly Avid support.

With the introduction of the new ‘trash can’ Mac Pro there have been many questions from the professional user. How do I connect my devices? Thunderbolt will now be the main gateway to all hardware not already built into the Mac system. In this article we will be covering the main thunderbolt devices you will need to be connected to the future.

The big news this year is AJA is now making a camera. It represents almost 5 years of development and won NAB Best in Show. The reason why AJA brought a camera to market is it builds upon a lot of the existing technologies they have developed over the years. Obviously with the IO HD and Ki Pro, AJA has developed the market for external encoding so the camera builds on a lot of that encoding technology and what AJA has tried to do is bring back a camera to market that draws on the last 100 years of camera development.

Companies like Netgear, Dlink, Linksys and Belkin have made networking easy. These days, to create a network, it’s simply plugging a cable into the network port on your computer and the other end into the router and away you go. Although this is OK for your small network at home, it might not meet your needs for your video-editing network.

expansion slot. Recently, we were asked to install a Cubix Desktop Xpander to incorporate GeForce GTX TITAN Black Gaming Graphics Cards for a client, and thought we’d share the experience.

Broadcasters, VFX/post-production companies and digital media organisations often need to implement a new facility when commencing a business start-up, undertaking a new project, expanding or relocating. This post looks at the considerations that should be made before undertaking a new facility roll-out or major upgrade.

From 1st February 2015 Autodesk will no longer offer upgrades to the latest software if you own a perpetual licence. You need to take action now to work out the best licensing options for you.

“Data wrangling” has become one of the most important tasks in the modern content-creation process. Since the move to file-based media for all origination in our industry, it is the one common thing that we all must do to ensure data safety. File transfer, copy, backup and archive processes are part of our daily workflow.