Case Study: Naughty Dog achieves a high-speed, reliable 10 Gbps network for fast file sharing and overnight backups with Brocade

Brocade Keeps Naughty Dog Ahead of the Game

Naughty Dog, the Santa Monica game studio behind Crash Bandicoot and the Uncharted series, faced a data‑intensive, iteration-driven workflow that required fast, reliable file sharing and large-scale backups for its 200+ developers—single high‑resolution character models can be ~25 GB. To meet tight deadlines and avoid downtime, the studio needed greater network performance, scalability, and dependable replication of terabytes of data overnight.

Naughty Dog deployed Brocade FastIron SX 1600 core switches (with 20+ 10 Gbps blades), dual 10 Gbps links between switches, and FastIron SX 800 edge switches to build a high‑speed, expandable infrastructure. The solution enabled rapid transfer of large 3D animation files, snap‑mirroring of 12–28 TB of data in under eight hours (with IT citing copy speeds up to 500 Gbps), zero development outages during key rollouts, and a seamless eight‑hour network move—keeping development on schedule.

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Justin Monast

Director of Information Technology