Pivot3, Inc., a provider of IP SANs for the digital surveillance market, has released the Pivot3 vBank Appliance to address the growing influence of IT in video surveillance environments. The vBank adds compute resources to support more virtual servers, solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles VMware vSphere, VMware vMotion and VMware vCenter Server technologies to simplify management. Individual vBank appliances can be stacked in a Pivot3 storage and compute STAC to function as a highly reliable, high-performance IP SAN. vBank is designed for mixed IT and surveillance environments. In retail organizations, for example, investments in video surveillance storage can quickly deplete IT and security budgets. A stack of Pivot3 vBanks can support standard back-office applications that share the virtual server resources and shared storage performance available in the surveillance infrastructure. The savings in rack space, power and cooling are up to 40 percent when compared to traditional storage appliances. [www.pivot3.com]