Avere Systems has announced that its FXT Edge Filers has been selected by the California Academy of Sciences Morrison Planetarium to enhance the production process of computer animated films and drive cost saving initiatives. By delivering significant efficiencies with Avere, the Academy now can distribute a higher volume of content to partnering planetariums in a much shorter time frame all the while doing it in a footprint tremendously smaller than comparable offerings.
CA Academy of Sciences turned to Avere to meet its storage needs. Avere's FXT Edge filers delivered, accelerating the Academy's I/O performance by 10x over its previous solution, allowing the team to meet the shifting requirements of an unpredictable visual effects workflow.
Ron Bianchini, President & CEO, Avere Systems, said, Creating CGI requires enormous amounts of processing and storage, with rendering providing the most compute intensive activity. The Avere FXT Edge filer enables production teams to dramatically accelerate the rendering process, streamline infrastructure costs, and maximize productivity under extreme deadline pressures. No one in our industry is able to provide this level of performance at the cost and footprint we provide.
Avere was the only solution to meet every requirement while also assuring us scalability for future growth. Additionally, the Avere deployment was a seamless drop-in, with no disruptions. Our artists were not even aware of the switch except for the notable performance improvements," said Michael Garza, Planetarium and Production Engineering, Manager at California Academy of Sciences.
By selecting Avere, the Academy was able to leverage its existing investment, leading to an overall reduction in operating costs.
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