ATTO Technology announced an exciting new solution enabled by ATTO's Celerity Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters(HBAs) with Multipath Director technology. Professionals in the rich-content digital media market demanding high-quality storage can now take advantage of HP's feature-rich P2000 G3FC Modular Smart Array(MSA) storage system in Mac environments for the first time, enabled by ATTO's proprietary technology.

Mac OS X has long been the platform choice for creative professionals, and increased resolutions and project complexity have pushed users to grow their storage footprint exponentially. Only ATTO's Multipath Director, when combined with ATTO's 8Gb/s Celerity Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, offers the market a highly-available, high-performance storage solution. This powerful combination allows HP to provide solutions in vertical markets formerly outside its usual channels, while maintaining its industry leadership position in providing users feature-rich storage.

ATTO's Celerity line of HBAs are the industry's only Fibre Channel cards with 8Gb/s speeds that provide high performance connectivity to feature-full storage for Mac platforms, a solution especially 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 "For the first time, professionals using the most demanding workstation-based applications can meet those needs with HP's P2000 G3 Modular Storage Array powered by ATTO's Celerity Fibre Channel HBAs."