Istudios Visuals in Sweden Expanded Usage of Compuverde Software-Defined vNAS Storage Solution

Compuverde AB announced that post-production company Istudios Visuals (Istudios Filmproduktion HB) has decided to expand its use of its vNAS storage solution by doubling the storage capacity and giving its employees real-time playback and editing capabilities on the NAS, even for high-bandwidth 5K raw footage.

The decision was made following a one-year long partnership between the two companies, which enabled Istudios Visuals to create a performing production environment and achieve improved levels of reliability, flexibility, redundancy and scalability.

Istudios Visuals is enjoying a 10x performance boost compared to the company’s previous solution, as the number of IO/s has increased by a factor of 9.6. The transfer speed for read and write operations has reached up to 450MB/s per storage node, a 400% increase compared to the company’s previous solution.

Before entering the partnership with Compuverde, Istudios evaluated both traditional storage appliances and other software-defined storage (SDS) solutions and found that the appliances were too expensive and inflexible, while other SDS solutions lacked he needed features and could not live up to promised performance.

• No more offline editing: Istudios Visuals can perform real-time editing and playback of mission critical, high-bandwidth data directly on the NAS, without having to first migrate its projects to local workstations, thus saving time and money.
• Redundancy and scalability: The erasure coding of 2+1 gives a data footprint of 150% while still allowing a node failure without data loss. After the cluster has been in production for about one year, it’s time to double the capacity. This will allow for more erasure coding options with more redundancy and an even lower data footprint.
• Systemic benefits: The move to vNAS storage solution has had a positive impact throughout Istudios, from team satisfaction to the reduction of Opex to a reduction of latency.
  

Anton Johansson, co-founder and director of IT infrastructure, Istudios Visuals, said: “The ability to completely skip offline editing and use of proxies says it all. Compuverde’s unique approach to SDS frees us up to provide better service to our customers. Other solutions that we have been looking at, for doing this type of high-performance load, have been at least five to 10 times more expensive, without delivering the whole set of features that Compuverde does.”

Carl-Henric Möllerström, VP, Compuverde, said: “Istudios has very specific needs, with a big turnover of data on a daily basis. Reaching HA was just one factor, albeit the most important one. High performance, high flexibility and advanced storage features were also essential. Their situation presents a perfect use case for vNAS, which meets all of their needs and improves daily work life and customer satisfaction.“

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