Avere Systems has announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company founded by James Cameron, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring quick access to their computer-generated imagery data.
Avere Systems has announced that Digital Domain Productions, a digital production company founded by James Cameron, has implemented Avere FXT Series NAS appliances at a Las Vegas co-location data center to maximize IOPS and minimize latency of its cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring quick access to their computer-generated imagery data.
Digital Domain uses render nodes co-located in Las Vegas, which access data centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vancouver. It then turns the data into media frames. However, without the ability to minimize the latency introduced by geography, it would derail Digital Domain’s efforts to leverage the co-location’s footprint in cities with much lower costs for space and power.
This is why they decided deploy Avere FXT at their Las Vegas location. With it, Digital Domain was able to reduce its latency to 0.1 milliseconds, translating into 250x faster performance. Additionally, Digital Domain also has Avere FXT appliances installed at its regional locations in order to provide improved local application performance with fast access to non-local storage.
Avere’s FXT Series of appliances provide a 5:1 reduction in disks, power, and rack space with its tiered file system that organizes data across RAM, Flash, SAS and SATA tiers. The new FXT 3000 and FXT 4000 series models are designed for even greater scalability and efficiency by doubling the amount of appliances that can be clustered to 50 . They also provide as much as 7 TB of RAM and hundreds of terabytes of SAS or SSD capacity on a single cluster.
