Pavilion signs with Sony Innovation Studios

Pavilion Data Systems, the emerging leader in high performance unified storage, continues its market penetration as its adoption seems to accelerate. It confirms the maturity of the product and its capabilities with an interesting features set.

This increase of visibility seen for several months is the result of the arrival of Amy Love, CMO, who changed Pavilion image, building real marketing practice and establishing a real connection with press and analysts. Clearly Amy has a real impact turning an engineering driven company into a more business oriented one.

When you read Pavilion product spec sheet you understand why users with high demanding storage needs select HFA. In 4U, so in a super dense chassis, the I/O throughput it delivers is super high with 120GB/s and 20M IOPS for less for 100 micro seconds in block mode.

HFA was chosen by Sony Innovation Studios, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, to be the storage foundation of its volumetric capture based on Atom View software. This 3-D virtual and mixed environments put the storage layer under heavy stress and only a few vendors can absorb such workloads.

Sony has selected an integrated solution from Alliance Integrated Technology and Pixit Media coupled with HFAs. The capability of HFA, its parallelism design, internal fast switching with 20 controllers and end-to-end NVMe, here wit RoCE links, met performance requirements for GPU-based rendering.

This solution uses IBM Spectrum Scale to offer a parallel file access to the datastore leveraging the parallelism of multiple HFAs in the rendering farm.

Great case studies, more should come soon.