Driven by rapid user growth of Microsoft's Zune® and Xbox® platforms, distributing digital content is now a key business objective. Microsoft Studios needed a high performance, cost effective storage system that would align with their workflow, allowing them to rapidly ingest and encode content to enable distribution.

Microsoft Studios chose DataDirect Network's S2A Shared San File System Solution (SSFS), tying together S2A's Performance and Capacity Optimized Storage Systems which are fully integrated with the StorNext file system to enable Hierarchical Storage Management between their high performance and high capacity tiers.