Rushes, a post-production house for CSI Miami, Match of
the Day, Hard Candy and Arctic Monkeys, has standardised on a
network storage system from Exanet.
It claimed that its price/performance and support for
heterogeneous IT systems helped Rushes to single it out from the
competition.
Rushes implemented Exanet’s software-based, clustered,
network-attached storage (NAS) system, ExaStore, working with
London-based reseller ERA which specialises in creative and visual
computing.
Rushes chose a two node ExaStore system, running on IBM servers
and storage boxes, but providing storage for a multi-vendor IT
system.
Tim Wharton, director of engineering at Rushes, said, “Our
collaborative working environment consists of Linux workstations
and rendering servers, as well as Windows machines and Apple Macs.
We needed a central storage repository that could easily serve data
to such a heterogeneous environment.
"Exanet, with its native support of multiple protocols, gave us
a complete solution that significantly simplified our
infrastructure and workflows.”
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