Render Rocket manages growing 3D demand with EMC Isilon

Singapore - EMC Corporation announced at SIGGRAPH 2011 that Render Rocket, a cloud-based rendering services company, has deployed EMC’s Isilon scale-out NAS to enhance its self-service 3D rendering solution, and to keep pace with the growing demand for its offerings from entertainment and design clients.

Render Rocket alleviates the need to purchase, maintain and continually manage large render farms by offering individuals and studios across a range of industries an easy-to-use, affordable and adaptable solution that integrates into any production workflow.

Working with Isilon channel partner GPL Technologies, Render Rocket deployed the EMC Isilon X-Series and NL-Series Platform Nodes, and Isilon’s SmartConnect®, SmartQuotas®, and SnapShotIQ® software applications, allowing it to easily scale in performance and capacity.

By streamlining its big data storage infrastructure, Render Rocket can continue to meet the growing demand for its services and the needs of clients with large-scale rendering jobs, like those seen on projects such as Spiderman 3, Piranha 3D and Drive Angry.

“Rendering in film and design is becoming more and more data intensive. By moving to Isilon, we’ve increased our storage capacity five-fold since last year and cut labor and management costs by 40 percent. Our service platform is more robust and more secure, with stronger file security and system redundancy, enabling us to render jobs of any size,” said Tracey Farrar, vice president of business development at Render Rocket.