Crest Animation, a full-service animation studio based in India, has been growing rapidly and expanding its market by working on full-length feature movies. In order to take on an increased workload, the company needed to upgrade its storage infrastructure. The company was looking for a storage solution that was robust and scalable, that would eliminate bottlenecks, and that could grow quickly. Read this case study to learn how Crest Animation implemented a scalable storage solution with a unified, high-performance, highly reliable infrastructure that is bottleneck-free.
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HIGHLIGHTS Crest Animation Eliminates StorageGoal: For Crest Animation to build aunified, high-performance storage Bottlenecks, Improves Productivity, andinfrastructure that can remove storagebottlenecks, improve application Gains More than $19 Million in Benefitsperformance and productivity, and with HP StorageWorks Solutionhelp the company increase the speedof creating animated feature films Crest Animation, a full-service animation studio based in India, has been growingand TV shows. rapidly and expanding its market by working on full-length feature movies. InSolution: A comprehensive HP storage addition, it has begun to create High Definition (HD) and 2K (2048 x 1556 solution, including a 12-node HP resolution) animations.Enterprise File Services (EFS) ClusterGateway, three HP StorageWorks In order to take on an increased workload, and handle HD and 2K film animations,Enterprise Virtual Array 8000 (EVA8000) the company needed to upgrade its storage infrastructure. The existing infra-disk arrays, and HP ProCurve 5412 structure was siloed, requiring that large files be copied between systems,switches. slowing down the work of animators. In addition, storage throughput could notResults: Storage bottlenecks have handle the increased workload or larger files. The company was looking for abeen eliminated, and application storage solution that was robust and scalable, that would eliminate bottlenecks,performance has been improved and that could grow quickly.dramatically, helping Crest cut the To solve the problem, Crest Animation chose a comprehensive HP storageamount of time it takes to create solution consisting of a 12-node HP Enterprise File Services (EFS) Clusteranimations by between 30 to 40 per- Gateway, three HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 8000 (EVA8000) diskcent. The amount of animation Crestproduces a month has increased arrays, and HP ProCurve 5412 switches.from 44 minutes to more than 200 The HP solution has given Crest Animation a unified, high-performance, highlyminutes. As a result of performance reliable storage infrastructure free of bottlenecks. The new infrastructure hasimprovements, Crest can take on improved application and storage performance dramatically, helping Crestmore lucrative feature film work, and Animation cut the amount of time it takes to create animations by between 30has a storage infrastructure that can to 40 percent. The amount of animation Crest produces a month has increasedscale as its work increases. The HP from 44 minutes to more than 200 minutes.solution has a projected, cumulative,five-year net benefit of $19,275,000. Crest Animation has been able to move into the lucrative HD and 2K animationThe project has an ROI of 408%, and field, and increase their workload. The HP solution has a projected, cumulative,a payback period of nine months. five-year net benefit of $19,275,000. The project has an ROI of 408%, and apayback period of nine months.CUSTOMER PROFILECrest Animation Benefitshttp://www.crestindia.com OBJECTIVE BENEFITS ACHIEVEDCrest Animation is a full-service studiospecializing in the development and Improve storage and The HP storage infrastructure has helped Crest Animation cut theproduction of digital animated prop- application performance amount of time it takes to create animations by between 30 to 40 percent. erties for theatrical, television, homeentertainment and interactive distri- Increase the amount of Due to improved storage and application performance, the amount animation produced of animation Crest produces a month has increased from 44 minutes bution. per month to 200 minutes.Headquarters: Mumbai, India Increase revenue Crest Animation can now take on more animation jobs, and more Industry: Entertainment lucrative HD and 2K film animations, leading to a projected, cumulative, five-year net benefit of $19,275,000.Employees: 500Case Study Forum R O I C A S E S T U D I E S
The Challenge: Improve Storage Performance and Scalability,Increase RevenueCrest Animation, based in Mumbai, India, is a full-service studio specializing inthe development and production of digital animated properties for theatrical,television, home entertainment and interactive distribution. The firm is theleader in the Indian animation industry, and one of the leading CGI animationstudios in the world. The company has been growing rapidly and expanding its market by working onfull-length feature movies. ... [download for more]
