Leading Animation Studio Reduces Primary Data Footprint 70% and Enhances Productivity...

Leading Animation Studio Reduces Primary Data Footprint 70% and Enhances
Productivity with Storwize Capacity Optimization

Snowball VFX leverages real-time compression to consolidate its storage
infrastructure, reduce power and cooling requirements, and enhance rendering
time

LOS GATOS, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Storwize Inc., the leading provider
of real-time capacity optimization solutions, today announced that Snowball
VFX has chosen the company's capacity optimization solution to significantly
reduce storage costs associated with its animation application data. Storwize
solutions are deployed at hundreds of customer locations worldwide enabling
organizations to achieve significant and immediate ROI by dramatically
reducing their cost of storage and associated infrastructure footprint, power,
cooling and administrative costs.

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Snowball VFX, a leading production and outsourcing services animation studio,
specializing in highly complex 3D animation projects and related services, was
challenged with a need to meet the growing storage capacity requirements of
its studio staff, including software developers, graphic artists, and editors,
while also reducing the cost of its storage infrastructure, improving
composing process performance and reducing backup/restore time. After
comparing multiple competitive alternatives, Snowball VFX selected Storwize's
STN-6000i capacity optimization appliance that immediately provided savings of
70% in storage capacity requirements.

"We considered a number of alternatives including solutions from NetApp and
Dell, and Storwize was the only solution that delivered both significant data
reduction and enhanced performance from our existing storage infrastructure,"
said Yoni Cohen, President of Snowball VFX. "Deploying Storwize reduced our
cost per terabyte to less than $1,000, improved our data availability, and
shortened our workflow processes dramatically. There is no other solution
like Storwize on the market."

"Snowball's deployment of Storwize is a great testament to our approach to
capacity optimization," said Peter Smails, Senior Vice President of Marketing
at Storwize. "Our real-time compression solutions are uniquely capable of
delivering both financial and operational savings as well as enhanced
performance from existing storage infrastructures. We're proud to have
Snowball VFX as one of our valued customers."

About Storwize
Storwize's unique real-time capacity optimization solutions are deployed
globally helping organizations dramatically reduce their cost of storage and
optimize their storage infrastructure throughout the data lifecycle. To learn
more visit www.storwize.com

About Snowball VFX
Snowball VFX is a production and outsourcing services animation studio,
specializing in highly complex 3D animation projects and related services,
providing customers with high quality content for home entertainment, computer
games, feature films, and media campaigns. To learn more visit
www.snowballvfx.com

CONTACT AGENCY: CONTACT STORWIZE:
Judy Smith Peter Smails
JPR Communications SVP, Worldwide Marketing
818-884-8282 408-400-3567
judys@jprcom.com peters@storwize.com

SOURCE Storwize

Judy Smith, JPR Communications, +1-818-884-8282, judys@jprcom.com; or Peter
Smails, SVP, Worldwide Marketing of Storwize, +1-408-400-3567,
peters@storwize.com