In brief

Bobby V”™s new venture

Bobby Valentine has formed a film production company in Stamford.

The former Major League Baseball manager, co-host of ESPN”™s Sunday Night Baseball and director of public safety in Stamford, has partnered with producer Andrew Muscato to create Makuhari Media, which will focus on producing sports-themed documentaries.

Muscato, 25, was a producer on “The Zen of Bobby V,” a 2008 ESPN documentary that chronicled Valentine”™s managing career in Japan”™s major league baseball.

Valentine and Muscato have already begun work on producing three documentary features.

The first film being produced by Makuhari Media is tentatively titled “Pelotero” and focuses on two young baseball prospects from the Dominican Republic who dream of signing Major League contracts.

The film is a co-production with Guagua Productions. It is being directed by Jonathan Paley, Trevor Martin and Ross Finkel and is in post-production with editor Mary Manhardt.

Makuhari Media has two other two films in production. One involves a chess tournament between the Princeton University Chess Club and prison inmates who are serving life sentences. The other presents the life and career of former Brooklyn Dodgers pitching great Ralph Branca as he completes his autobiography.

Muscato is producing and directing the two films and Valentine is the executive producer.

Virtual Density debuts cloud storage product

Danbury-based cloud-computing company Virtual Density has created a hybrid of two high-tech storage technologies.

The company released DriveSync Cloud Folders, which combines cloud storage with advanced drive sharing and data replication software. Data stored on the DriveSync service, which keeps a cached copy of most frequently-used files on the local hard disk, is protected by encryption and is automatically saved across multiple storage networks.

DriveSync costs $10 a month.

BLT revives Long Ridge property

Stamford-based Building and Land Technology has completed renovations at 260 Long Ridge Road in Stamford.

The 200,000-square-foot building has an updated exterior with new windows, a redesigned lobby, reconfigured entry parking and landscaping. The renovation has also changed the floor plates of the building and increased the parking capacity.

Carl Kuehner, CEO of Building and Land Technology, said the building could be suited for single users or divided for multiple tenants.