Leading Production, Distribution and Digital Company Sinking Ship Entertainment Selects Qumulo’s Hybrid Cloud File Storage

Multiple Emmy® Award-winning production company chooses Qumulo’s file
storage for its performance, capacity and high-availability

Announcement Highlights:

• Toronto-based Sinking Ship Entertainment selects Qumulo’s file
  storage to support its visual effects (VFX) and interactive services
• Sinking Ship Entertainment produces popular children’s series such
  as “Odd Squad” and “Dino Dana,” and is the first Qumulo customer
  developing live-action and CGI-blended content

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Qumulo, the pioneer of hybrid cloud file storage, today announced that
Sinking Ship Entertainment, a production, distribution and interactive
company specializing in children’s live-action, CGI-blended programming,
has chosen Qumulo’s file storage to support its visual effects (VFX) and
interactive services.

Sinking Ship Entertainment produces popular children’s series such as Odd
Squad and Dino Dana, and is the first customer of Qumulo’s
with a focus on developing live-action and CGI-blended content.

“Qumulo’s unwavering commitment to its customers’ success is unlike
anything I’ve ever seen,” said Matt Bishop, Founding Partner, Sinking
Ship Entertainment. “Our studio produces many millions of files ranging
in size from very, very large with our CGI and VFX work, to smaller
files with our animation, and Qumulo’s file storage was able to scale
across multiple workloads and file types effortlessly.”

Sinking Ship Entertainment, based in Toronto, has won 13 Daytime Emmy®
Awards and a variety of other international awards, including 11
Canadian Screen Awards, 13 Youth Media Alliance Awards, 11 Parents
Choice Awards, the Shaw Rocket Prize, and the Prix Jeunesse
International.

“The combination of live action with CGI creates a massive amount of
data, and for innovative production studios like Sinking Ship
Entertainment, they need a scalable, high-performance file solution that
can grow with them as their content library continues to expand,” said
Molly Presley, director of product marketing, Qumulo.

Resources

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• Data Sheet: Qumulo
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About Qumulo, Inc.

Qumulo is the leader in hybrid cloud file storage, providing real-time
visibility, scale and control of your data across on-prem and cloud.
Qumulo’s real-time analytics enable customers to understand their
storage at a granular level, detect bottlenecks and accelerate
performance. Built to scale across data center and cloud, Qumulo enables
programmatic configuration and management of usage, capacity and
performance. Qumulo’s innovative approach continuously delights
customers with new capabilities, 100 percent usable capacity and direct
access to experts. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.

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Contacts

For further information:
A3 Communications for Qumulo
Federica
Monsone
qumulo@a3communicationspr.com
+44
1252 875 203