NetApp powers DreamWorks with customized Data Fabric
NetApp has announced it has partnered with DreamWorks to develop and oversee the studio’s customized Data Fabric approach. Through the partnership, NetApp’s engineers are working closely with DreamWorks’ IT team to optimize the Data Fabric and meet the studio’s unique, rapidly-expanding data storage and management needs. The incredibly detailed and immersive graphics that DreamWorks artists create represent enormous volumes of data and add the challenge of complexity to the DreamWorks IT environment.
“NetApp is the leader in hybrid cloud data services,” said Kate Swanborg, Senior Vice- President of Technology Communications and Strategic Alliances, DreamWorks. “Having used NetApp solutions on all of our CG animated feature films, DreamWorks trusts NetApp to deliver the data services our filmmakers rely on to innovate today and tomorrow, as they unleash creativity and dream new realities.”
DreamWorks is a rapidly-expanding digital business, and the amount of data to which its teams must have immediate and widespread access is staggering. An average animated feature film requires hundreds of artists and engineers, over 600 terabytes of data, more than 100 million compute hours, and half a billion digital files. And, as the studio grows its business and brings its digital assets to new channels, its data requirements continue to expand exponentially.
“DreamWorks’ world-class filmmakers, storytellers, and artists are all focused on creating experiences of incredibly high-quality, like the studio’s next film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which features over 60,000 distinct dragons on camera at one time,” said Jeff Wike, Chief Technology Officer of DreamWorks. “While we’ve traditionally specialized in animated films and television series, increasingly our creators are also developing content for theme parks, live entertainment, and emerging platforms like AR and VR. This data-driven transformation of our business requires that we pursue greater efficiencies for sharing workflows across multiple platforms and preserving assets for future content extensions.”
As DreamWorks and NetApp continue to work together on solutions that NetApp will eventually roll out more widely to its customers, the teams are finding innovative ways to:
Empower production workflows. Optimize and take advantage of a massive amount of content-creation data across multiple, simultaneous productions.
Maximize creative development. Ensure on-demand availability of filmmaking data for artists’ creation, iterations, and reviews.
Streamline operations. Simplify and automate infrastructure architectures to maximize production uptime.
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