French animation studio uses Red Hat for agile and cost-effective
storage, removes technology limits to creative collaboration
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that DWARF
Labs at DWARF Animation Studios in Perols, France, has adopted a
high-performing, software-defined storage framework by deploying Red Hat
Gluster Storage running on industry-standard servers. Enormously
successful animation projects for luxury clients, such as Cartier
Jewelers, prompted DWARF Labs to upgrade its technology infrastructure
and embark on producing the studio's first full-feature animated film.
Red Hat Gluster Storage solution gives DWARF Labs' artists and
technologists the agility to effectively collaborate in creative and
innovative ways without technology boundaries.
DWARF Labs chose Red Hat Gluster Storage software based on the results
of its product and industry benchmarking process in which the solution
ranked first in every category including storage capacity and
performance and customer support. Red Hat Gluster Storage software
provides a platform for effectively managing rich media content stores
to match the demands of high-resolution digital video without the
lock-in and high cost of traditional proprietary storage solutions.
The entire artistic production team at DWARF Labs uses Red Hat Gluster
Storage software running on industry-standard servers. The new IT
architecture is designed with storage at the heart of its rich media
workload, connected to graphic design workstations and the render farm.
With Red Hat Gluster Storage, DWARF Labs has created a sustainable
architecture that drastically reduces data transfer times between
workstations and the render farm.
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Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"The media and entertainment industry is facing unprecedented storage
challenges, with more than 60 exabytes of new digital storage in
production by 2020.1 This drives the need for cost-effective,
scalable and performant storage infrastructure. Red Hat is excited to
help improve the artistic creativity at DWARF Labs through its
deployment of Red Hat Gluster Storage and its scalable software-defined
storage architecture which delivers high production values and the
smoothest rendering possible."
Olivier Pinol, CEO, DWARF Labs
"My experience working with the big American film studios made me look
at open source solutions. I've already tried and tested their
reliability and low operating costs. Our trials of solutions on the
market backed up this view, both in terms of performance and support,
which are key parts of our specifications. Obviously, the technical
aspect played a huge part in the decision-making process for us, but the
key to open source lies mainly in the Red Hat team's ability to
guarantee customer service and support. The suitability of what Red Hat
offered was extremely reassuring on this point and that was what managed
to convince us. Now, the only thing that limits us is our own
creativity."
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1 Coughlin Associates, The 2015 Digital Storage for Media and
Entertainment Report, August 2015
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