Case Study: Double Fine Productions achieves higher application performance and faster recovery with StarWind Software

Double Fine Productions achieved higher applications performance without compromising infrastructure management simplicity

Double Fine Productions, an award‑winning game studio founded in 2000 in San Francisco, was constrained by direct-attached storage running under VMware ESXi. The setup created a single point of failure, required manual workload balancing, delivered insufficient performance for applications, and made backups slow and tedious.

By implementing StarWind VSAN, Double Fine gained load balancing, data replication and automated storage tiering that boosted application performance and enabled fast recovery after outages or hardware failures. Paired with StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze, archival and media backups were automated to B2 cloud, accelerating backup workflows and reducing costs compared with offsite LTO.

Double Fine Productions

Aaron Hayes

IT Manager