Case Study: Ensequence achieves limitless scalability and 50–70% faster performance with NexentaStor (Nexenta)

Ensequence - Customer Case Study

Ensequence is an interactive TV company that builds branded viewer experiences for customers such as NBC Universal, ESPN and Disney. Rapid business growth produced an explosion of data, and the company needed to scale infrastructure quickly while reducing costs and improving access, backup and disaster-recovery—constraints that legacy vendors could not address without expensive hardware add-ons.

Ensequence deployed NexentaStor on pre‑tested Supermicro SBB appliances (ZFS-based) using iSCSI/NFS/CIFS and the VMDC plugin across two appliances (about 100 TB raw / 40 TB usable), with RSync replication and 10Gb connectivity. The rollout delivered near‑limitless scalability, 50–70% higher performance than the prior system, faster VM cloning, improved HA/DR and consolidated systems, producing lower TCO and first‑year maintenance savings large enough to offset the system cost.

Ensequence

Tony Noll

Director of IT, Ensequence