High Moon Studios Using Violin Maestro Memory Appliance

Violin Memory, Inc. announced its Maestro Memory Appliance was used by High Moon Studios, Inc. to win the Storage Visions Visionary End User Award for High Performance Storage Application.

The media and entertainment market is known for its demanding application and storage environments, and Violin has assisted High Moon Studios in achieving this recognition.

High Moon Studios creates performance games, and was awarded for its use of the Violin Maestro Memory Appliance to accelerate legacy storage to new heights. Using Maestro, High Moon Studios created a 100,000 IO/s storage system in its SAN fabric to accelerate business performance. The company installed a Maestro Memory Appliance as a ‘bump in the wire’ in its FC SAN fabric. This allowed the IT staff to monitor the I/O traffic without disrupting ongoing software builds. The performance boost from Maestro cut the software build times down by nine times, enabling the studio’s IT department to exceed its SLAs.

“Getting the most from our game developers is key to our success,” said Dan Mulkiewicz, IT director, High Moon Studios. “Violin Memory Maestro accelerated our turnaround, allowing more software builds in a given time, leading to greater programmer productivity.“

“High Moon Studios exemplifies the business impact of high performance storage,” said Narayan Venkat, VP of product management, Violin. “Violin Memory is delighted to enhance their business productivity with Maestro acceleration.“

The Storage Visions conference recognizes and educates attendees on the latest trends in storage as well as how leading companies are implementing storage advances to improve their business. The awards are based on leadership in products and implementation of storage. The Visionary End User Award recognizes the innovative use of storage solutions for high performance applications.

Maestro Memory Appliance:

• Delivers more than 1 million IO/s
• Accelerates up to 160TB of legacy disk
• Provides I/O access with latency measured in microseconds
• Plugs into existing SANs non-disruptively.