AMPD Ventures in Partnership With Vancouver, Canada-Based Bardel Entertainment

AMPD Ventures Inc. a digital infrastructure provider, has closed a deal with Vancouver, Canada-based Bardel Entertainment, Inc. to provide NVMe-based storage as part of its storage solution.

“AMPD’s decades of experience in digital media technology means we know that all data is not created equal. As a result, AMPD Storage represents a tiered approach, including tier-1 ultra-high speed NVMe-based storage fronted by a parallel file system that enables thousands of compute cores to access the data simultaneously,” said Anthony Brown, CEO, AMPD Ventures. “This is crucial for companies with extremely large and intense compute workloads such as 3D rendering for television and movies because it enables them to apply as much parallel processing as they need without creating a bottleneck in accessing the data that needs to be processed.“

“As Bardel Entertainment ramps up to handle the demands of higher resolution graphics for our shows, we needed a storage system that could handle millions of IO/s and hundreds of Gb/s of throughput. There is a very limited number of solutions that can handle this kind of performance, and AMPD was able to partner with us to architect the perfect balance of blazing fast performance with cost efficiency,” said Eric Legaspi, VP of technology, Bardel Entertainment.

The AMPD Storage solution also includes tier-2 SSD flash-based storage and tier-3 spinning disk storage for archive. It will be part of the AMPD Virtual Studio Suite and be collocated alongside AMPD Virtual workstation and AMPD Render solutions in urban data centres in keeping with AMPD’s development of the edge. All solutions are being made available to customers under a right-scaled, ‘op-ex’ business model through which they only pay for the compute capacity they need.

AMPD is representative of a next gen of independent, sector-focused service providers offering underlying infrastructure solutions to cope with the low latency demands of the latest applications, while offering the convenience of cloud computing business models. The team at AMPD has been supplying HPC compute and cloud solutions to the video games and animation and visual effects industries for nearly 2 decades and is engaged in supplying the technology required for the ongoing transition to virtual and real-time production enabled by advances in game engine technology and the convergence across the digital content creation sector.

About AMPD Ventures Inc.
It specializes in providing high-performance cloud and computing solutions for low-latency applications, including video games and eSports, digital animation and visual effects, and big data collection, analysis and visualization.