“We understood the vision to become a global studio
Jellyfish Pictures to realise this goal”
and we, with other partners enabled
Paul Cameron, Managing Director, pixitmedia Solution Partners:
files to be distributed across multiple creative hubs quickly and securely anywhere in the world, enabling global collaboration with guaranteed data efficiency.
Demanding workflows Jeremy Smith, Jellyfish Pictures CTO explains the crucial role storage performance and security plays in their daily operations; “We have varying performance needs depending on the project. Most of our work is now 16bit OpenEXR and DPX for the sequences and shots we’re working on. In all cases, we need to be able to guarantee that performance from our network. “In the media industry, sustained
performance is mission-critical. With new storage, you normally start really fast, and then as the system gets older you get fragmentation, which negatively impacts workflow and makes it slower. As a result, companies would recommend and over-buy storage based on the knowledge that the performance would deteriorate over time. “For the archive, it doesn’t
need to be fast, so we use ‘cheap
and deep’ storage. But in our live workflow, we use more expensive spinning discs. Our main network is based on a Mellanox core to our clients. As long as the physical disc can spin that fast there’s no reason why we can’t saturate that connection. There aren’t that many applications that require that level of connection. “The key
differential in working with pixstor and ngenea solutions is that it writes data to the underlying disc in a way you know you have guaranteed read and write performance. This has a massive knock-on effect for real-time tasks like editorial or grading. If you set the performance at X, you get X and if you scale it up to Y, you get Y. The pixitmedia team makes sure it stays within our defined parameters and doesn’t deviate over time. Even when we’re at 99% capacity we’re still getting perfect performance levels.
“None of this would have been achievable without the innovative minds at pixitmedia, who understand what the future of our industry looks like” Phil Dobree CEO, Jellyfish Pictures
Secure virtualisation “With pixitmedia’s support, we’ve been working with the relevant security auditors on delivering a secure international virtual workflow in line with TPN (Trusted Partner Network) requirements. The pixitmedia team has done some really great work, to help us protect our data and this greatly helps when getting a TPN assessment. pixstor offers multi-tenancy on its single storage fabric, creating secure containers to allow separate
editorial, VFX, and other workflows to sit within one, rather than multiple networks. Each container is in 100% isolation with no cross over to prevent any data leaks. “We can set our own rules for each container with no additional costs and
no impact on performance. The data is isolated on a dedicated network level and you allocate per client, per job working on whichever base storage you already run. Before this, you’d have one storage system for
customer A and one for customer B, and so on. Now we only send the data we want to be worked on remotely to our artists wherever they’re based – with all keyboard, mouse, and pen tablet signals recorded and attributed, and returned within the same infrastructure. “pixitmedia continues to evolve
its unique pixstor environment and ngenea platform with us to make it work ever harder for the most demanding 4K and CG workflows whether on-premises or now in the cloud. The pixstor Cloud virtual performance is the same as the native file system on the pixstor on- premises. The cost savings are very high and the potential for collaborative working is exciting!” Dobree concludes “None of this would have been achievable without the innovative minds at pixitmedia, who understand what the future of our industry looks like.”
Find out more:
www.pixitmedia.com
www.jellyfishpictures.com
www.shotgunsoftware.com
www.teradici.com
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