Ubisoft: Streamlining Software Development
Interactive entertainment company boosts performance of workstations with Intel® Solid-State Drives
Ubisoft is one of the leading international developers, publishers and distributors of interactive entertainment products, employing over5,000 development staff globally. The computing resources available to its staff are key to the development process. Ubisoft regularly evaluates new hardware products to determine whether they can bring significant benefits to the company’s work processes. It identified the introduction of Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) as offering the potential to significantly enhance the performance of its existing computer workstations.
Challenges
• Better products:
Ubisoft wanted to improve the performance of the workstations its developers use for new interactive entertainment projects to streamline the development process and provide extra time for improvements within existing deadlines
• Maximizing ROI:
It sought to update the hardware in its existing development workstations to get the most out of its previous investment; it wanted a cost-effective solution that offered the biggest performance benefit
Solutions
• New opportunity:
Ubisoft identified Intel SSDs as a hardware advancement that could offer significant performance improvements when substituted for the existing hard disk drives (HDDs) in its workstations
• Assessing the competition:
After identifying Intel SSDs as the leading SSD solution, Ubisoft conducted tests to compare the performance of the Intel SSDs against a pair of10,000 RPM 300GB consumer HDDs in RAID 0
• Superior performance:
The Intel SSDs offered comparable performance benefits while providing a simpler, more reliable and energy-efficient solution; Ubisoft chose to deploy a total of 700, mainly within its production teams
Impact
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Ubisoft: Streamlining Software Development
Interactive entertainment company boosts performance of workstations with Intel® Solid-State Drives
Ubisoft is one of the leading international developers, publishers and distributors of interactive entertainment products, employing over5,000 development staff globally. The computing resources available to its staff are key to the development process. Ubisoft regularly evaluates new hardware products to determine whether they can bring significant benefits to the company’s work processes. It identified the introduction of Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) as offering the potential to significantly enhance the performance of its existing computer workstations.
Challenges
• Better products:
Ubisoft wanted to improve the performance of the workstations its developers use for new interactive entertainment projects to streamline the development process and provide extra time for improvements within existing deadlines
• Maximizing ROI:
It sought to update the hardware in its existing development workstations to get the most out of its previous investment; it wanted a cost-effective solution that offered the biggest performance benefit
Solutions
• New opportunity:
Ubisoft identified Intel SSDs as a hardware advancement that could offer significant performance improvements when substituted for the existing hard disk drives (HDDs) in its workstations
• Assessing the competition:
After identifying Intel SSDs as the leading SSD solution, Ubisoft conducted tests to compare the performance of the Intel SSDs against a pair of10,000 RPM 300GB consumer HDDs in RAID 0
• Superior performance:
The Intel SSDs offered comparable performance benefits while providing a simpler, more reliable and energy-efficient solution; Ubisoft chose to deploy a total of 700, mainly within its production teams
Impact
Read the full Ubisoft: Streamlining Software Development Case Study.
