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work in 4k uncompressed, raw footage in realtime to save time and effort. The ioFX delivers:

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Fusion's ioFX flash memory was awarded the prestigious CGW Silver Edge Award (“best in show”) at NAB 2013.

Storm FX Adds Fusion-io to its Line Up of Channel Partners

April 10, 2013 – Sydney, Australia - Storm FX Distributions Pty Ltd, an Australia-based distributer of design, modelling and finishing solutions, is pleased to announce the addition of Fusion-io ioFX to its line up offerings. As a Fusion-io distributor, Storm FX will offer two core ioMemory products: the Fusion ioDrive for server environments, and ioFX for workstation environments.

The ioDrive platform combines Fusion-io’s Virtual Storage Layer (VSL) software with high performance flash memory to accelerate data centres, whilst Fusion ioFX brings the power of ioMemory to workstations, enabling artists to conduct real-time stereoscopic content creation, video and image editing and compositing, video playback and rendering, and other data-intensive digital production activities.

“In todays economic environment where studios and producers of graphic intensive work and applications can’t keep up or consistently afford to upgrade computer systems,” says Storm FX ManagingDirector, Martin Leibowitz. “The Fusion ioFX allows users to accelerate their pipelines in any environment at a very reasonable cost.”

Fusion ioFX connects 420 GB of flash memory via the PCI Express bus to provide studios and artists with a new memory tier that bridges the gap between creative potential and hardware performance in the production pipeline. With the ioFX, professionals can now view changes in real-time on their workstations, even when working with high-resolution stereoscopic content.

The ioFX is designed to accelerate video playback and rendering, video and image editing and compositing, encoding and transcoding as well as other data-intensive activities required in contemporary digital production.

Xsens releases new real-time character plug-in for Unity

Bring your Unity character to live in real-time with Xsens MVN

Enschede, the Netherlands – April 9th 2013 - Xsens, the creator of Xsens MVN, the leading inertial motion capture solution for the film and game industry, releases a new real-time character plug-in to give Unity  developers easy access to MVN motion capture data. The plug-in allows artists and developers to view live motions in real-time on character. Next to the real-time plug-in there is also a file based approach using the FBX format to import MVN motion capture data into Mecanim, Unity’s powerful and flexible animation system.

“The integration of Xsens MVN into Unity opens up new possibilities for developers who want to efficiently create custom animations or even bring their characters to live in real-time,” explains Hein Beute, Product Manager at Xsens. “The intuitive tools of Unity and ease of use of Xsens MVN provides developers with a powerful combination to produce prototypes or create games, this will be a huge costs saver for anyone who wants to create custom animations for their characters in Unity,” Hein Beute continues.

With the addition of the Unity Tools, Xsens expands its portfolio of plug-ins. Earlier Xsens released live plug-ins for Siemens PLM Software and Autodesk MotionBuilder and Maya.
The Xsens MVN Unity Tools will be released and demonstrated at all three locations during Unity Unite 2013 in Asia; Seoul - April 11-12, Tokyo - April 15-16, Shanghai April 20-21.

Xsens website: http://www.xsens.com
Unity Unite: http://unity3d.com/unite/

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Flash-Storage and Virtualisation

Spaces are filling fast, don't miss your last chance to register!
Don't miss your last chance to register for the first workshop of the series! Spaces are limited and filling fast. Register today!

     Time: 8:30am - 11:30am
     Date: Tuesday 12th March 2013
     Cost: FREE
     Location: Radisson Blu Sydney
     Full breakfast will be provided

Flash-Storage and Virtualisation
 
Attend this workshop to:
•    Discover how flash-storage revolutionises existing computer architecture and can boost virtualisation.
•    See the evolution from rotating spindles to cutting edge flash memory and from isolated physical servers to multiple virtual ones.
•    Understand what makes this technology so superior and why cloud providers can't live without it.
•    Bring an enterprise-class level of technology to your own workstations and data center.
•    Determine how your business could benefit from flash-technology and virtualisation and which departments could utilise virtualisation most efficiently.
•    High performance computing solutions which include visual workstations, servers, storage, high speed interconnects and Accelerator coprocessors.
•    See Intel technology in the datacentre.
•    Take a deeper look at the Intel Xeon Processor.
•    Introducing the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
•    Discover how to make use of more than a Teraflop of performance on a single chip.
•    Processor roadmap.

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Tractor 1.6.5 (1149182) is now available from the Pixar our download site.  

Tractor 1.6.5 provides important performance improvements and bug fixes over the 1.6.4 release.

You can view the full set of Tractor 1.6.5 release notes in the Pixar tractor support forum.

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Press Release

Storm FX launches Technical Breakfast Workshop Series

Sydney, February 6th 2013 – Storm FX, the leaders in providing design, modeling and finishing solutions and services, are pleased to announce the launch of their Technology Breakfast Workshop Series commencing in March 2013.

With a distinguished line-up of Engineers presenting from leading technology companies such as  Arista, EMC, Citrix, VMware, Fusion-io, Spectralogic, Xenon and more, these workshops will offer a unique opportunity for attendees to gain an in-depth understanding on topics such as Archiving, Networks, Storage Systems, Data Security and Virtualization.

“This unique line-up of presentations as part of the Technology Breakfast Workshop Series is aimed specifically at digital content creators of all genres and educators. We wanted to move away from product focused sessions to create interactive and informative sessions for industry IT professionals.” Said Storm FX Managing Director Martin Leibowitz.

The Technology Breakfast Workshop Series will run once a month until June and will provide in-depth technical content, with a focus on current and future advances in technology.
More information on agendas, ticketing, dates and locations can be found at www.stormfx.com.au .
About Storm FX

Storm FX are the leaders in providing design, modelling and finishing solutions and services. We partner with a diverse range of companies to bring you solutions that span from creative and procedural software, generic and specialised storage, to high performance visual and audio requirements.
Storm FX’s strategic partnerships, accredited skills and expertise with leading technology vendors bring you a localised servicing approach to an international range of products.
For further information, please contact Storm FX
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 - Data security and Virtualisation

How to prevent data leakage from your company and leverage virtualisation for high-end graphics applications.

Concerned about your valuable data hitting the internet or be stolen by unauthorised parties Learn about existing technologies that can protect your intellectual property and how to virtualise desktops to further enhance data security.

Attend this workshop to
•    See how cutting-edge cloud technology allows you to outsource 3D visualization software into the cloud.
•    Be guided through the business drivers for virtualizing design engineer workstations and apps
•    be able to identify the technology considerations in selecting a virtualization solution that meets the expectations of design engineer users and the IT experts that need to support them.
•    See the Solution range available with an overview of products and their capabilities
•    See real life case study scenarios

Presenters
Ian Farquhar, Advisory Technology Consultant and Technology Evangelist, RSA

 
Nabeel Youakim, VP Products & Microsoft Alliance, CITRIX

Wednesday 15th May 2013 - Network Technologies & Scale-Out Storage

Broken down into two session this workshop will cover the design characteristics of modern networks that allow for the future-proof support of scalable storage systems and growing data.

Gain a deeper understanding of the technical concepts behind scale-out storage and what you need to consider if you want to implement future proof storage architecture at your facility.

Session 1: How to design a future-proof network: Design Characteristics of Modern Networks.
•    Discover traditional and cutting-edge Ethernet technologies, their differences and benefits.
•    Learn how to upgrade your company network costs efficiently using the right technology.

Session 2: NAS technologies: Understanding scale-out storage.
•    What you need to know to achieve an optimised scale-out architecture.
•    An in depth review of the technical concepts behind scale-out storage and what you need to consider if you want to implement future proof storage architecture at your facility.

Presenters
Dr. Chris Stacey - Senior Technologist at EMC Corporation

 
Lincoln Dale - Principal Engineer at Arista Networks Inc.

Wednesday 12th June 2013 - Data Center Architecture

Learn how airflow, temperature and other factors impact the running costs of your data centre as we will take you through ways to improve it and save money.

For those who don’t have a data centre, learn about the technologies that allow you to have your own server farm with its own micro environment and how it can all fit nicely in a reception area!

Presenters: DPSA and NUTANIX

More information coming soon

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