Case Study: Ringling College of Art and Design accelerates student creativity with DDN storage

Ringling College of Art and Design - Customer Case Study

Ringling College of Art and Design needed a storage infrastructure that could keep up with explosive data growth, 4K media workflows, and a highly collaborative creative environment without slowing students down. The college wanted scalable, reliable, high-performance storage that could integrate with its HPC clusters and let students access digital assets seamlessly across platforms and locations, so it turned to DDN and its SFA storage solution.

DDN implemented SFA10K and SFA12K storage with 1.6PB of capacity, creating a unified platform for ingesting, editing, rendering, and archiving creative projects. The results were significant: students could play HD, 3D, and 4K streams directly from the SAN 10 times faster with no frame loss, and the college rendered 2.8 million frames in one week—work that would have taken 89 years on a high-end workstation.

Ringling College of Art and Design

Larry Thompson

President