Isilon Clustered Storage Enables Leading Production Studio to Maximize
Performance and Streamline Workflow for Major Animated Movie Release
SEATTLE, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Isilon(R) Systems, the leader in
clustered storage, today announced at SIGGRAPH 2006 that DNA Productions
used Isilon IQ to accelerate the creation and production of "The Ant
Bully," Warner Bros. recent animated feature film (in theaters now). DNA
Productions leveraged more than 70 terabytes of Isilon's clustered storage
to deliver unparalleled quality, efficiency and detail in the creation of
"The Ant Bully." Using Isilon IQ, DNA Productions was able to maximize the
performance of its animation render farm, streamline the workflow of its
production process and meet critical deadlines for the latest release in
Warner Bros. long line of popular animated films.
"Studios and audiences alike expect us to deliver breakthrough visual
effects and animation as a core component of the stories we tell, and as
such our films are incredibly complex to create," said Rich Hirneise,
Director of Network Operations, DNA Productions. "Isilon IQ delivers the
high performance, flexibility and cost-effectiveness we require to power
our state-of-the-art productions and meet crucial deadlines in our business
operations."
Isilon IQ, with its OneFS(R) distributed file system software, enabled
DNA Productions to harness the sheer computing muscle of its animation
render farm to achieve new levels of realism for "The Ant Bully" in less
time and at lower cost than traditional storage systems would allow.
Additionally, Isilon IQ's unique clustered architecture enabled DNA
Productions to balance its workload between its render farm and artist
workstations, ensuring maximum concurrent performance for all of its
critical workflow processes.
"With 'The Ant Bully,' DNA Productions has once again raised the bar
for film animation, bringing unparalleled levels of realism and artistic
value to audiences the world over," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing &
Business Development, Isilon Systems. "Isilon IQ was built from the ground
up to store, manage and access digital content and DNA's deployment of our
solutions is a great use case for companies looking to gain a competitive
advantage through the use of clustered storage architectures."
Isilon IQ allows DNA Productions to centralize its storage and
distribute its data between clusters with Isilon SyncIQ(TM) replication
software, all while delivering unprecedented business benefits. With its
networked storage interconnected through low-latency, high performance
InfiniBand switches, Isilon IQ enables DNA Productions to satisfy immense
throughput requirements and easily and reliably expand its storage without
any downtime, even while running active render jobs.
Powered by OneFS 4.0, Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single
file system that unifies and provides unprecedented access to the exploding
stores of unstructured and file-based information, eradicating the cost and
complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures currently
constraining enterprises. Isilon's award-winning Isilon IQ family of
clustered storage systems -- the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 4800, 6000,
Accelerator and EX 6000 -- are available immediately.
About Isilon Systems
Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon's award-winning
family of Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage
systems that combine an intelligent distributed file system with modular
industry- standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and
scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in
data-intensive markets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging,
life sciences, oil and gas and government. The Seattle-based company is
financed by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas
Venture, Madrona Venture Group and Focus Ventures. For more information,
please visit: http://www.isilon.com .
NOTE: The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of
their respective owners.
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