Award-Winning VFX Company Uses Clustered Storage to Streamline Workflow and
Reduce Costs
SEATTLE, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los
Angeles, Isilon(R) Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN), the leader in clustered storage,
today announced that The Orphanage, an award-winning visual effects studio
that has worked on a number of major Hollywood films including Iron Man,
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire, Sin City, and Superman Returns, has selected Isilon's IQ clustered
storage system as the primary storage platform for its latest and largest
project to date. The Orphanage is using Isilon IQ to unify, manage and
access the entirety of its latest major motion picture project from a
single, high-performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage --
streamlining the post-production process and accelerating the project's
time-to-completion.
"At The Orphanage, we pride ourselves on delivering leading-edge visual
effects for major Hollywood films that continually advance the state of the
art. With our latest project, we faced unprecedented data storage
requirements for a single motion picture, requiring a unique solution with
the scalability and ease of use necessary to cost-effectively power our
workflow," said David Lloyd, Head of Systems, The Orphanage. "Isilon
clustered storage delivered in full, enabling us to deliver the highest
quality product and meet our deadline without worrying about administrating
the system or managing complex capacity additions."
Prior to using Isilon IQ, The Orphanage did not have a storage solution
capable of creating a single file system and single volume with the scale
required to store an entire motion picture project. However, by deploying
Isilon clustered storage, The Orphanage was able to unify the entire
project onto one, easy to use, "pay as you grow" clustered storage system,
removing costly data access and management barriers and dramatically
simplifying its storage architecture and post-production operations.
Additionally, Isilon IQ's unique ability to seamlessly integrate with
multiple operating environments -- from Linux and Unix, to Mac and Windows
-- provided The Orphanage's many users with immediate, concurrent data
access, further accelerating its workflow and maximizing system efficiency.
"As audiences continue to demand more realism and visual impact from
motion pictures, leading-edge visual effects are a critical component in
enabling Hollywood studios to meet this demand with each new release," said
Steve Fitz, Senior VP of Global Field Operations, Isilon Systems. "The
Orphanage's portfolio speaks for itself, while their use of Isilon
clustered storage sets the template for post-production companies looking
to maximize the productivity of their operations in delivering the next
generation of visual effects."
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.
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CONTACT:
Jay Wampold of Isilon Systems,
+1-206-315-7620, jay.wampold@isilon.com
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