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BITS & PIECES www.postmagazine.com 5 POST JULY 2016 Blizzards Climate Change Clouds Floods Global Warming Hurricanes Katrina Lightning Mother Nature Sky Plates Snow Stormy Seas Tornadoes Volcanoes Wind on HD Super 35 & Cine 4K www.stormstock.com Tel. 817.276.9500 See our latest work at vimeo.com/stormstock/2016 StormStock® In cinema quality 4K. So real, it's scary. AVID SHIPS NEXIS STORAGE PLATFORM BURLINGTON, MA — Avid (www.avid.com) is now shipping its NEXIS software-defined storage platform, specifically de- signed for storing and managing media. The platform enables fully virtualized storage so media organizations can adjust storage capacity mid-project, without disrupting workflows. According to the company, Avid NEXIS, which is powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, delivers media storage flexibility, scalability and control for both Avid-based and third-party workflows. It's designed to serve small production teams as well as large media enterprises, and is intended to be able to grow with businesses. In addition to Avid Media Composer and Avid Pro Tools, Avid NEXIS works with media creation applications from other leading vendors, including Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Grass Valley Edius and many others. Avid NEXIS is a scale-out storage solution that enables customers to tune the system to ensure that high-priority workflows always have the capacity, performance and data protection levels required. The modularity of NEXIS enables teams to mix and match storage engines and elastically scale capacity from as little as 20TBs to over 1.4PBs in a single system, without any interruption in service or down time. For more "Storage" news, see page 48. KILLER TRACKS ADDS NASHVILLE'S IAN BERN TO 'ARTIST SERIES' SANTA MONICA, CA — Singer/ songwriter Ian Bern is the latest addition to Killer Tracks' (www. killertracks.com) Artist Series. The Nashville-based artist has drawn strong reviews for his debut single "Enough/It's Not You" on B3SCI Records. Killer Tracks is announcing this new deal with a special promotion on Spotify that includes a chance to win a signed 7-inch vinyl. "Our Artist Series is home to trend-setting, up-and-coming artists," says Killer Tracks director of marketing, Andrew Donahue. "It provides new artists with invaluable exposure and content producers with access to cut- ting-edge music from stars in the making, like Ian Bern." Bern's music draws influence from classic rock and Brit pop, but it's delivered with a distinct, modern spin. His debut single "Enough" was recorded at Wax Ltd, Hollywood. Killer Tracks releases new music through its Artists Series on a reg- ular basis. Past releases have in- cluded work from Shiny Toy Guns, Luke McMaster, The Mutants, Rev Theory and Alex Band.