Products: Small Tree Communications

Even though pricing for storage continues to drop, it still takes a considerable array to hold hours' worth of HD material. High-speed networking might offer one solution. Small Tree Communications' Blaze remote file sharing system employs 10 Gigabit Ethernet along with a new transfer protocol; together, they enable Mac workstations to use files on a file server rather than resorting to local drives, with reportedly no loss of interactivity. The company created its proprietary protocol from the ground up to specifically boost OS X. www.small-tree.com