Neoscape Accelerates Inspired Visualizations With Isilon X

EMC Corporation announced that Neoscape, Inc., a creative
agency that provides rendering, film and interactive solutions for architectural, real estate, and corporate projects, has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out NAS to
accelerate the performance of its big data-intensive creative operations.

Since creative studios manage growing volumes of
rich media, they are in need of scale-out NAS storage systems that
empower their artists and designers to share and collaborate. Using the Isilon
X-Series, Neoscape has increased the speed at which
employees access files and simplified management of its server
architecture.

Customer Benefits:

• Access to data: Isilon’s scale-out NAS architecture has accelerated users’ access
  to files 400% and improved system stability.
• Server
  architecture: Isilon enabled Neoscape to
  simplify its server architecture and reduce the amount of hardware needed,
  significantly reducing overhead costs.
• Scalability: Isilon architecture provides a future-proof system that
  will scale capacity and performance as storage needs grow.
• Software
  Features: Isilon’s feature-packed software provides increased ease of administration, including Snapshots for user
  self-recovery of lost or damaged files.
• High Availability: Maintenance while users continue to work without interruption.

Customer Challenges and
Solution:

Neoscape is a creative agency comprised of artists, filmmakers,
architects, photographers and visionaries who are dedicated to creating
inspiring design and visuals. As the company grew, however, its IT
infrastructure limited employees from realizing their creative
visions. Neoscape’s previous system, comprised of fragmented servers and
disparate storage arrays, was slow, complex and not easily scalable. Employees
often encountered failure issues when moving large files around their network,
further delaying their output. The compilation of SAN and NAS systems from
different vendors complicated storage management and required hours of manual
administration each day.

To improve file sharing and collaboration, the company selected Isilon for its
approach to capacity and performance and for its ability to scale on-demand. It currently stores its entire range of
rendering, film and interactive data on Isilon, enabling this data to be
uploaded, shared and manipulated simultaneously by multiple users at high
speeds.

With Isilon’s OneFS operating system, Neoscape can
add more storage nodes to increase capacity and performance, manage
collaboration, and assess throughput speeds. The company is also in the process
of rolling out Isilon for primary backup and disaster recovery needs.

Nils Norgren, Founder, Neoscape, said: "In order to keep up with business demands, we knew we needed to
transform our existing infrastructure, which was limiting our growth. EMC
Isilon has a great reputation in the industry, and we now have a simple,
powerful and integrated setup that has enabled us to increase throughput four
times, with a greatly simplified architecture."

Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, EMC Isilon, said: "Neoscape provides its customers with
invaluable expertise in 3D visualization, film making, and interactive applications.
Their technology needs to support their artists’ and designers’ work and
visions that help create today’s innovations in experiential design and
visualization. With EMC Isilon, Neoscape has a storage environment nimble
enough to keep up with the studio’s creative juices."