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Demand for compelling interactive experiences is massive and ever-growing, with quality titles being launched daily. This demand has placed extreme pressure on game developers around the world who need to deliver differentiated experiences at an accelerated pace across PC, console, and mobile, whether they are working on large AAA or small indie titles. Any obstruction in the creative process can lead to launch delays, feature cuts, or launches of buggy games due to time constraints to help avoid player disappointment.
Dell PowerScale nodes powered by the Dell OneFS operating system combine to make a flexible scale-out NAS solution that is simple to install, easy to manage, and that can scale to virtually any size. A single administrator can manage petabytes of data, which lowers overall operational costs and allows staff to focus on managing their data—not their storage.
Dell PowerScale storage systems are the primary NAS platform for many game-development, VFX, and post-production studios. The continued increase in the use of 4K and 8K graphics, HDR, and High Frame Rate video content has created an ever-increasing capacity and throughput demand on storage, in both the games and VFX industries. These new growing datasets are inevitably getting checked into the studio’s version control system (which, for a lot of studios globally, is Perforce Helix Core).
Now that the film and TV industries are also heavily using game engines such as Unreal and Dell Unity for virtual production, eXtended Reality, and In Camera VFX, the demand for performant high-capacity storage has never been greater.
This paper details how PowerScale can be a perfect fit for Perforce Helix Core. PowerScale uses standard SMB or NFS protocols to move exponentially growing depots away from Perforce Server hardware constraints and enable those depots to grow larger than ever before to keep up with the ever-increasing volume of data.