Toonz Animation has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out storage to meet the demand of a scalable storage solution and increase the speed of production to complete multiple projects efficiently.It has also reduced its energy requirements by 25% percent, decreasing the company’s overhead for power and cooling.
Toonz Animation has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out storage to meet the demand of a scalable storage solution and increase the speed of production to complete multiple projects efficiently.
It has also reduced its energy requirements by 25% percent, decreasing the company’s overhead for power and cooling. Training and guidance from EMC Global Services has resulted in the need for a lean IT team of two-persons to manage the environment independently.
Toonz Animation was running a siloed storage solutions which led to the IT team spending a lot of time managing network performance and consolidation issues. Toonz’s IT workload has now decreased due to the reduction in hours spent dealing with network issues caused by rendering and compositing bottlenecks.
Storage consolidation is another area where Toonz has experienced gains. Instead of housing multiple disk arrays, the Isilon S200 scale-out architecture provides the required capacity within a single file system on a few nodes.
With the Isilon S200, compositors are now able to work on multiple 2K or HD timelines simultaneously, benefiting from more than 1.4 million network file system ops and over 85 gigabytes per second aggregate throughput from a single file system cluster.
“The throughput performance of Isilon S200 has a direct impact on the business. We can engage with multiple studios and work on simultaneous projects because we know we can achieve fast turnaround times,” said K.R Asokan, IT Head, Toonz Animation.
