Other World Computing today announced it will showcase its unrivaled catalog of memory cards and readers, storage and connectivity solutions – including the first-ever Thunderbolt 5 solutions, featuring the OWC Thunderbolt 5 Hub and OWC Envoy Ultra at WPPi 2025, a premier conference for contemporary portrait, wedding, fashion, headshots, branding, event photography professionals, and more, taking place March 16-20 at The Rio Hotel Las Vegas.
Visitors to OWC Booth #230 will have the opportunity to see firsthand the game-changing storage and connectivity solutions that professional photographers and videographers trust to capture, store, and safeguard their most critical work. From the first-ever Thunderbolt 5 solutions to the fastest, toughest portable SSDs and high-performance memory cards, OWC is bringing the ultimate workflow-enhancing tools that professionals and prosumers simply can’t afford to miss, such as:
Memory Cards and Card Readers:
- OWC Atlas Pro, CFexpress 4.0 Type A – High-performance, highest-quality memory card for ingesting up to 2x faster with your Sony Alpha and FX cameras.
- OWC Atlas Ultra, CFexpress Type B – High-performance, highest-quality memory cards for the most demanding video recording uses of professional filmmakers and continuous burst mode shooting by advanced photographers.
- OWC Atlas Pro, CFexpress Type B – Cost-effective, highest-quality memory cards for the most demanding needs of professional photographers and the most common use cases of professional filmmakers.
- OWC Atlas Ultra, SDXC UHS-II V90 – High-performance, highest-quality memory cards for advanced photography and video recording at maximum camera settings.
- OWC Atlas Pro, SDXC UHS-II V60 – Cost-effective, highest quality memory cards for most common photo and up to 4K video capture uses.
- OWC Memory Card Readers – Designed for the most advanced use cases of professional photographers and videographers.
Portable SSDs:
- OWC Envoy Pro Elektron – The fastest, toughest mini-sized SSD available – it’s crushproof, dust-proof, and waterproof for transferring gigabytes of data in seconds.
- OWC Express 1M2 – Ultra-fast, compatible, and reliable portable USB4 NVMe SSD – build your own or choose ready-to-run solutions.
Desktop Storage:
- OWC Gemini – The only drive you need to organize your digital life – features dual drives and seven ports, taking you from notebook to workstation in seconds.
- OWC ThunderBay 4 – Performance and capacity perfection for individual to studio content creators.
In addition, WPPi 2025 attendees can discover OWC’s state-of-the-art connectivity and lightning-fast storage solutions, including the OWC Thunderbolt 5 Hub and OWC Envoy Ultra.
- OWC Thunderbolt 5 Hub – Explore a new world filled with workflow possibilities and state-of-the-art performance with the OWC Thunderbolt 5 Hub. It’s the perfect compact connectivity solution to solve the big problem of not having enough Thunderbolt 5 ports. Now you can turn a single cable connection from your machine into three Thunderbolt 5 ports and one USB-A port. With up to 80Gb/s of bi-directional data speed – up to 2x faster than Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 – and up to 120Gb/s for higher display bandwidth needs, you will redefine your productivity.
- OWC Envoy Ultra – The first and fastest Thunderbolt 5 Portable SSD, built like a tank for go-anywhere ruggedness. Bus-powered with a built-in cable for ultra convenience. Jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, revolutionary real-world speed over 6000MB/s. Envoy Ultra gives you the best of everything in the palm of your hand with reliability you can count on from the proven global leader of Thunderbolt innovations.
For further information about WPPi 2025, please visit: https://wppiexpo.com/.
Wave of Executive Talent Joins Hammerspace
Posted in Commentary with tags Hammerspace on March 10, 2025 by itnerdHammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced two new additions to its leadership team with the appointment of Gregg Machon as its Global Vice President of Channel Sales and Jeff Echols as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.
Machon, previously leading global channel sales at VAST Data, has a track record of building high-growth channel ecosystems at Qumulo, HPE, Nimble Storage, SolidFire, NetApp, Isilon, and EMC. Echols, formerly Vice President of Global Partner Sales at WEKA, has built and scaled strategic partner programs at Nutanix, CommVault, and Dell Technologies. Their move to Hammerspace underscores the industry’s shift toward the company’s Global Data Platform as the future of AI and hybrid cloud storage.
The appointments come as Hammerspace scales rapidly, expanding with added sales team members through North America and EMEA while opening an office in the Asia-Pacific market to meet surging demand for AI-driven high-performance infrastructure and data orchestration. The company’s breakthrough technology delivers data to GPUs at unmatched speed, maximizing compute performance while eliminating storage bottlenecks across multiple data centers, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.
Hammerspace continues to attract top talent from high-performance storage companies as the market realizes infrastructure speed is just one of the key components to consider in AI architectures. The demand for Hammerspace data assimilation, data orchestration and standards-based architecture offers the complete package of what customers need in their AI data strategies.
Machon and Echols join Hammerspace following other key recent hires from VAST Data and WEKA, including Jeff Giannetti as Chief Revenue Officer and Greg Palinckx as Senior Director of Americas Sales Engineering.
Current open positions at Hammerspace are available on its Careers page.
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