Case Studies - Six Nines IT

STUDIO IN THE CLOUD - MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT Gearbox Software

Gearbox Software, an award-winning, independent developer of interactive entertainment, responsible for acclaimed franchises such as Half-Life, Brothers in Arms, Counter-Strike, Duke Nukem, Borderlands, and more, has distinguished itself as one of the most respected independent video game makers in the world. With talented artists in high demand and realizing that undiscovered talent might not have access to the right tools and education, Gearbox decided that it was time to establish a new type of remote training infrastructure that it could use to teach students around the globe. The group knew that a cloud-powered Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) would be necessary, and that GPUs would be needed so that students would have the power to run the required software and workloads. With a vision in mind for how it could develop educational curriculums for training the next generation of game developers, Gearbox turned to Six Nines to help make their dream a reality.

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STUDIO IN THE CLOUD - MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT SPLICE®

Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, SPLICE is a post-production studio offering a range of services, including visual effects (VFX), motion design, and color, for episodic television and independent films. Despite its relatively small size, SPLICE’s 12-person VFX team works on some of today’s biggest titles in television and streaming. Its portfolio includes The Walking Dead, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, Daredevil, All American, and Once Upon a Time. Although the shows and movies SPLICE supports reach national and international audiences, the market for VFX artists in Minneapolis is relatively small. As the company began anticipating growth, it sought to use the cloud to bring on artists from around the country to expand business and reach. Six Nines guided SPLICE through a proof of concept (POC) of virtual workstations and a render farm on Amazon Web Services (AWS), demonstrating SPLICE could make a virtually seamless transition to a hybrid cloud model.

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STUDIO IN THE CLOUD - MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT FutureWorks

FutureWorks is a leading end-to-end film production services provider. The company’s 300 VFX specialists based in Mumbai and Chennai support films and television shows for today’s largest streaming platforms, including Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ Hotstar in India. Given the fast pace and rapid evolution of production in the media industry, and to maintain strong working relationships with clients, FutureWorks must stay a step ahead of their technical needs. When FutureWorks decided it was time to explore the potential of a virtual workstation and render farm environment in the cloud, it turned to Six Nines for help setting up a pilot on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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HPC - ELECTRIC DESIGN AUTOMATION (EDA) d-Matrix

d-Matrix, a start-up with a mission to build and deploy the world’s first brain-inspired AI compute engine for a broad class of inferencing workloads, was preparing to prototype a first-of-its-kind semiconductor from the ground up. The team wanted to hit the ground running and get their first chip taped out without the hindrance of designing an on-prem IT environment. The company decided that it wanted to use Azure as the backbone of its IT environment and approached Six Nines about creating an interface layer to access its resources efficiently, reliably, and in a way that would scale with it as the business grew. Together, the partners got to work, and d-Matrix taped out its first chip entirely on the Azure cloud.

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HPC - FINANCIAL SERVICES Global Parametrics

Global Parametrics harnesses advances in climate science, data modeling and financial engineering to create innovative risk transfer products that mitigate the economic effects of extreme climate and natural disasters in emerging markets. Six Nines expedited the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Global Parametrics and enabled them to migrate a numerical weather model used to inform risk transfer contracts from on prem to the cloud.

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HPC - ELECTRIC DESIGN AUTOMATION (EDA) Cadence

Cadence turned to Six Nines, a premier Information Technology consulting company specializing in helping businesses move to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Following the discovery phase of the Six Nines Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), they isolated the Cadence internal software development group as a great DevOps automation candidate. The workloads primarily consisted of High Performance Compute (HPC) clusters doing regression testing. The requirements for the project were that the clusters had to be rapidly deployed, scaled and drained in an automated fashion.

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HPC - COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING Luxury Automotive Company

Six Nines designed and implemented an automated solution for a U.S.-based luxury electric automaker in order to deploy an extremely complex, highly scalable Hybrid High Performance Compute (HPC) environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution, which enables the automaker’s team of engineers to run ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for designing and building innovative new car models, utilizes AWS compute-optimized instances, orchestrated by the Amazon EnginFrame HPC Solution.

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HPC - MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT Leading Virtual Reality Company

Six Nines designed and deployed a ‘one-click’ scripted solution for a leading virtual reality (VR) software and equipment provider in order to deploy an extremely complex, highly scalable High Performance Compute (HPC) environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution, which enables the company to perform advanced auditory testing in virtual reality simulations, utilizes Ansible and AWS CloudFormation to create a Slurm cluster on a group of 2 to 60 p2.16xlarge instances.

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MICROSOFT WORKLOADS - LEGAL SOFTWARE INSZoom

INSZoom offers solutions for immigration lawyers, corporations, universities, healthcare organizations and non-profit groups, providing a comprehensive platform that allows clients to share and process valuable information online, process immigration applications quickly and stay compliant during the process. INSZoom wanted to migrate their production environment from a colocation facility to AWS and needed an experienced AWS partner with expertise in architecting infrastructures using AWS services and DevOps principles. The company’s key requirements were around performance gains, cost improvements, repeatability, and security.

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MICROSOFT WORKLOADS - LEGAL SOFTWARE NRC Health

Six Nines helped successfully migrate NRC Health’s legacy Microsoft application to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, including fully automating the company’s entire CI/CD pipeline to launch new instances and provision existing instances with the latest builds, all while considering security and HIPAA compliance and honoring the AWS requirements for HIPAA applications in the cloud.

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MICROSOFT WORKLOADS - HEALTHCARE Pharos Innovations

Six Nines architected and deployed a cloud-based environment for Pharos Innovations, a SaaS platform that incentivizes performance and value-based healthcare, and successfully migrated the company’s legacy Windows-based applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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MICROSOFT WORKLOADS - Oil & Gas Quorum

Six Nines helped Quorum, a high-profile energy software provider, successfully migrate an acquired company’s legacy infrastructure and Microsoft Workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) within an accelerated time frame. By leveraging industry-leading tools and best practices developed over a decade of AWS experience, Six Nines fully integrated the company’s Microsoft.net Windows application with Quorum’s cloud-based SaaS Oil & Gas platform in only 15 days.

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CLOUD CIO™ - HEALTHCARE Intelligent Medical Objects

IMO wanted to move away from its existing infrastructure to a modern cloud solution. IMO services and data were hosted in their on-premises data centers and leveraged multiple vendors for various functions. This led to an overly complex environment with silos of disparate data for staff to navigate.

IMO’s priorities were enhanced DevOps capabilities, improved customer service, reliability, and downtime. They wanted a strategic cloud migration to help with quicker DevOps cycles and product iterations, bringing all of the tools and data into a single platform, and to lower infrastructure costs. Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows IMO to bring products and services to market faster.

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CLOUD CIO™ - HEALTHCARE Apervita

Six Nines helped establish and validate Apervita’s foundation for growth and scale by putting automation around security and governance on the entire environment and HIPAA Architecture, setting the cloud-based healthcare data & analytics company up for success as they prepared to experience exponential growth at an accelerated pace. Using a bespoke, three-phase approach, Six Nines worked closely with the company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to successfully perform a Discovery & Review, Remediation and Well Architected Review – all within a four-week time frame, from start to finish.

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CLOUD CIO™ - E-COMMERCE Soft Surroundings

When Soft Surroundings’ parent company, Brentwood Associates, acquired a new company, the Soft Surroundings technical team was tasked with absorbing and expanding the new web properties and core corporate applications. Since the web properties were hosted and supported by the previous parent company, Soft Surroundings needed to quickly Architect, Build, and Migrate multiple applications to a new provider. As a key component of this new environment, Soft Surroundings wanted to implement a Development, Staging, and Production environment with a modern DevOps code deployment process.

The new company’s primary go-to-market strategy is direct-to-consumer, so they needed to focus on security, scalability, and availability while also being conscious of their resource costs. Additionally, they wanted to use this new launch as the basis for re-launching their existing Soft Surroundings websites.

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DevOps - HEALTHCARE 42 North

Six Nines helped move 42 North, a Chicago-based medical technology startup, to a secure, modern cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and implement DevOps principles for efficiency and consistency. 42 North manages and deploys innovative, customized pharmaceutical commercialization strategies to help their clients increase patient access and facilitate economic and clinical efficiencies in the prescription fulfillment process.

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DevOps - HEALTHCARE NRC Health

DevOps - DIGITAL MARKETING Rise Interactive

Six Nines helped successfully migrate Rise Interactive – a digital marketing agency specializing in media, analytics, and customer experience – to a different data center infrastructure leveraging DevOps on AWS. An award-winning leader in the marketing space, Rise Interactive has received industry recognition for explosive growth, excellence in digital marketing, and company culture.

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