Case Study: Create Advertising Group triples storage performance and cuts costs with Microsoft Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct

Creative Advertising Group - Customer Case Study

Create Advertising Group, a post-production house, faced high costs and severe performance bottlenecks with its legacy Apple Mac workstations and expensive fibre channel SAN storage. This slowed down video editing workflows and crippled collaboration for its creative teams. Microsoft, with partner DataON, provided a solution using Windows 10 workstations and a software-defined storage solution built on Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 Datacenter.

The Microsoft solution enabled Create to replace its costly infrastructure. This resulted in a 60 percent reduction in storage costs, a tripling of storage performance, and a 50 percent reduction in IT management time. The greater performance allows editors to collaborate in real time and begin work hours instead of days after receiving footage, directly improving creativity and meeting tight deadlines.

Create Advertising Group

Chris Slagel

Director of Technology