Leading post-production house Pacific Title & Art Studio used DataDirect Network's S2A storage platforms to produce dynamic theatrical trailers and vfx for Warner Bros. Pictures' THE DARK KNIGHT, which opens in U.S. theaters nationwide on July 18.
DataDirect Networks is the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, content-intensive environments in the world -- including more than 400 broadcast and post production facilities, the largest online gaming and music sites, social networking applications developers, and photo and video sharing services.
"With such a high profile project and a demanding shooting schedule, the director and studio rightfully required the highest standards of creativity, content integrity, and delivery times," said Andy Tran, COO and CTO of Pacific Title & Art Studio. "That meant we required the extreme power and flexibility that would enable multiple users to quickly and easily access and manage multiple high resolution data streams, and ultimately help us complete projects on schedule and as promised. DataDirect Networks' S2A storage platforms delivered the performance, consistency and capabilities we needed to make it happen each and every day."
"Pacific Title was chartered with creating a multitude of 4K, 2K and HD trailers and effects for what is sure to be the summer's biggest box office hit," said Alex Bouzari, CEO of DataDirect Networks.
"For companies with throughput-intensive, real-time environments, DataDirect Networks offers the only storage platform that writes as fast it reads with guaranteed QoS, ensuring consistently predictable performance for extremely large content files. Developed over a decade of global deployments, the S2A is a purpose-built architecture using custom FPGAs with extreme levels of intelligence, designed to solve the data infrastructure problems that others simply can't," Bouzari said.
