NetApp and DreamWorks Animation have renewed their strategic alliance and co-engineering partnership. NetApp will remain DreamWorks’ preferred cloud data services provider, and with the support of NetApp solutions, the studio will continue to evolve its hybrid cloud environment to ensure enhanced productivity, flexibility and agility.
From the studio’s beginning, NetApp has been providing cutting-edge solutions to manage DreamWorks’ ever-increasing production demands and data complexity.
NetApp’s co-engineering partnership with DreamWorks brings together engineers from both organisations to solve real-world engineering problems focused on optimising workflows in a hybrid cloud environment, while decreasing latency.
“We’ve worked in lockstep with DreamWorks Animation to enable the studio’s digital transformation journey and accelerate its growth with NetApp’s product portfolio and the innovations resulting from our co-engineering efforts,” said Gabrielle Boko, CMO of NetApp.
“NetApp’s All Flash Array solutions were the foundation of the hybrid storage required to manage the production’s complex data requirements, and it simplified the workflows for the giant character model of Ruby Gillman, so that the animators were focused on creativity, not capacity management,” she added.
“In 2018, we moved from being a NetApp customer to engaging with them as a valued partner that brought the best of both companies’ resources together to accelerate our digital transformation,” said Bill Ballew, Chief Technology Officer of DreamWorks Animation.
“Unlike many other businesses that simply rely on data, DreamWorks’ actual end product is completely composed of data. In fact, we generate up to a petabyte of data for each film, and we couldn’t bring the imaginative storytelling of our animated films to life without the world-class data management services that NetApp provides,” he said.
NetApp and DreamWorks Animation work together to continually evolve the tools and techniques needed to raise the bar of visual storytelling for each film at the studio.
NetApp provides DreamWorks Animation with innovative technologies to manage the massive amount of data generated in production, while balancing data storage performance, flexibility and cost.
“NetApp is excited to partner with organisations to better manage their data across the hybrid cloud to deliver greater productivity, agility and cost efficiency to their operations, increasing their business competitiveness in the long haul,” said Matthew Swinbourne, CTO of Cloud Architecture at NetApp Asia Pacific.
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