SEATTLE, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los
Angeles, Isilon(R) Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage,
today announced that Intelligent Creatures, a leading visual effects
company that has worked on a number of major Hollywood films including Mr.
& Mrs. Smith, Babel, The Game Plan and currently in production on The
Watchmen is using Isilon IQ clustered storage to power its entire
post-production workflow, including 2D compositing and 3D animation. Using
Isilon clustered storage, Intelligent Creatures is able to streamline its
rendering and asset management operations, significantly increasing data
access and network performance to speed project turnaround. In addition,
Isilon IQ's single point of management and ease of use have enabled
Intelligent Creatures to take on larger and more complex projects without
adding additional staff or increasing the size of its render farm.
"Intelligent Creatures is focused on delivering the most progressive
visual effects in the industry, enabling our Hollywood clients to tell
their stories in the most compelling, visually rich manner possible," said
Michael Hatton, CTO, Intelligent Creatures. "As demand grows, our work is
increasingly more data-intensive and time-sensitive, requiring a storage
solution with the performance and ease of management necessary to
accelerate our operations without increasing costs. Isilon's clustered
storage system delivered on all fronts."
In order to continuously deliver the most immersive visual experiences
for Hollywood studios with demanding schedules, Intelligent Creatures
utilizes a render farm of more than 300 processors running a variety of
high performance, data-intensive visual effects applications. Prior to
using Isilon IQ, Intelligent Creatures traditional storage system was
significantly less capable of delivering the high concurrent throughput
necessary to support the around-the-clock work of its artists, hindering
productivity and slowing project turnaround. By deploying Isilon clustered
storage, Intelligent Creatures is now able to scale performance linearly or
independently with minimal downtime and workflow interruption, providing
its operations with both the high performance and simplicity necessary to
power its workflow. Additionally, Isilon's unique "pay as you grow"
architecture and reliable, immediate data access have enabled Intelligent
Creatures to take on larger, more intense projects without increasing the
size of its render farm or artist staff, dramatically reducing cost and
resource expenditure.
"As audiences continue to demand more realism and visual impact from
motion pictures, progressive visual effects companies are a critical
component in enabling Hollywood studios to meet this demand with each new
release," said Steve Fitz, Senior Vice President of Global Field
Operations, Isilon Systems. "Intelligent Creatures is at the leading edge
of visual effects studios delivering exactly the experience consumers want
-- and Hollywood needs -- to keep audiences coming back for years to come."
Powered by OneFS(R), Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single
file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the
rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and
complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a
unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's
award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems, including the Isilon
IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator, and EX 6000, 9000 and
12000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications
including SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), SmartQuotas(TM),
MigrationIQ(TM), and SyncIQ(R) that leverage OneFS and clustered storage,
providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data
management.
About Isilon
Isilon Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) is the worldwide leader in clustered
storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data,
enabling enterprises to transform data into information -- and information
into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage
systems combines Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest
advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow,
enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions
speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing
the cost and complexity of storing it. Information about Isilon can be
found at http://www.isilon.com.
About Intelligent Creatures
Intelligent Creatures is an artist-driven Visual Effects house
dedicated to helping some of cinema's finest directors tell some of
cinema's most compelling stories. With fully integrated 2-D and 3-D
compositing and animation pipelines and a wealth of on-set experience, the
Company stands among the industry's most progressive VFX creators.
Intelligent Creatures relentlessly pursues its mission to be the leading
company in the world providing Visual Effects that plays a strong
supporting role in high-end creatively driven films. Since 2003, it has
made cutting-edge contributions to major film projects notable for their
artistic and commercial success. http://www.intelligentcreatures.com
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SOURCE Isilon Systems
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Related links:
http://www.isilon.com
http://www.intelligentcreatures.com
CONTACT:
Jay Wampold of Isilon Systems,
+1-206-315-7620, jay.wampold@isilon.com
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