Ocarina ECOsystem Case Study:

Case Study: CG Animation Studio

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Case Study: CG Animation Studio

 

Challenges

  • Cited that the primary reasons for purchasing their Ocarina ECOsystem were:
    • Build a cost-effective, disk-based nearline archive
    • Enable artists to retrieve frames in real time instead of waiting for tape media to be loaded

Environment

  • Storing less than 50 TBs online and nearline data in an archive
  • Online data is growing at between 26% to 50% per year.
  • Deployed their Ocarina ECOsystem with the following file storage:
    • BlueArc
    • Isilon Scale-Out NAS

Benefits

  • Reduced the image data footprint by 65.0% by deploying their Ocarina ECOsystem.
  • Rated Ocarina’s technical support as excellent.

Testimonials

“It has provided much better access for artists to reference data from older shows as it now kept online. Reduced the workload on Sys admins as restores from tape are rarely needed. Productions are more receptive to getting shows backed up to tape as they know it will also be made available through the Ocarina at the same time allowing them their needed access.”

“Ocarina’s award-winning technology has become an essential component of my storage environment. It has enabled me to build a cost-effective nearline storage tier to store more data online than ever before. It has also helped reduce end-user dependency on storage administrative resources and increased overall productivity.”

“Any post-production or FX studio, small or large, will benefit from Ocarina’s unique data reduction technology because it is specifically designed to address the growth, performance, and data availability challenges that are facing our industry.”

Source: CG Animation Studio TVID: 563-1C5-751
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