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Case Study: CG Animation Studio

Challenges

Cited that the primary reasons for purchasing their Ocarina ECOsystem were:
- Keep more data online longer instead of being archived to tape media
- Enable artists to retrieve frames in real time instead of waiting for tape media to be loaded
- Support 1 PB archive for a cost of 250 TBs of raw storage

Environment

Storing greater than 200 TBs of online and nearline data in an archive
Online data is growing at between 26% to 50% per year.
Took 200 TBs of raw data off tape and put it in their nearline store.
Deployed their Ocarina ECOsystem with the following file storage:
- Isilon Scale-Out NAS

Benefits

Reduced the image data footprint by 30% by deploying their Ocarina ECOsystem.
Rated Ocarina’s technical support as best I’ve ever experienced.

Testimonials

“Ocarina Networks ECOSystem allowed us to build a cost-effective nearline archive that significantly increases operation productivity, while allowing us to reduce the net price of disk down to a level where net new disk purchases was possible.”

“The Ocarina Networks compression technology is the vital piece to move our company out of a tape-based backup environment and allowed us to utilize a Multi-Tier Disk-based Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Architecture. Ocarina was able to compress our top 10 file types and showed a space savings on 2nd tier (nearline) storage at roughly 45% capacity.”

Source:

Global 500 CG Animation Studio

TVID: C62-E6B-7C7

Case Study Details

Status:	Validated
Validated On:	Aug 19, 2009
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