VFX Studio MARZ Selects Qumulo’s High-Performance File Storage to Accelerate GPU Rendering and Project Delivery Times

Qumulo’s Scale-Out NAS Solution Enables MARZ to Produce Feature Film-Quality Visual Effects Within Tight Television Production Timelines

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Qumulo, the leading provider of enterprise-proven hybrid cloud file storage, today announced that pioneering visual effects (VFX) studio Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) has selected Qumulo’s distributed file system for its ultra-fast performance, high availability, and scalable capacity. Qumulo’s software will enable MARZ to better meet its extremely aggressive post-production timelines by accelerating GPU rendering speeds for VFX projects and by providing real-time visibility into storage capacity and usage.

Toronto-based MARZ delivers feature film-quality VFX for premium television series such as HBO’s Watchmen, Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys, and Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy. Compared with feature film timelines, television series require VFX studios to deliver visual effects at a vastly accelerated rate.

“Our GPU rendering turn-around speeds are radically fast. We selected Qumulo’s file storage to support the imminent 8K standard, and immediately put it to the test on 4K shows, with more than 30 artists hitting it hard 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Qumulo’s file storage performed flawlessly and has exceeded our expectations,” said Sebastian Bilbao, MARZ’s chief technology officer. “With our studio’s fast-paced growth, we would have been dead in the water if we had not taken rapid steps to upgrade to a file storage system that met our challenging requirements.”

Since deploying Qumulo’s file storage, MARZ has been able to double its rendering workloads and has tripled its previous storage capacity, all with a smaller storage footprint.

MARZ will deploy the new file system on Qumulo’s extremely dense Capacity Series C-72T platform. The C-72T can store 72TB of capacity in a 1U form factor that can scale up to 3PB. The platform’s high-density, block-level architecture delivers 100 percent usable capacity. Hybrid SSD/HDD media supports fast performance with efficient storage, and 6-core, 2.2 GHz CPU and 64GB memory.

“File storage is at the heart of modern editorial, VFX and rendering workflows. Studios like MARZ that are at the forefront of delivering feature film quality on tight timelines require fast, simple, and reliable storage for their artists,” said Eric Scollard, vice president worldwide sales for Qumulo. “Qumulo is the recognized leader for powering high-speed GPU rendering with high-performance, massively scalable, intelligent file storage technology that customers can run on-prem or in the public cloud.”

Resources

Technology Overview: Qumulo File System
Optimize editorial workflows with universal scale storage
Blog post: VFX rendering presents huge storage challenges
Blog post: Can I Really Use 100 Percent of My Storage? With Qumulo, the Answer is Yes!
Qumulo Capacity Series: Hybrid SSD/Disk Storage
Contact Qumulo

Suggested Tweet: VFX Studio @MARZ_VFX Selects @Qumulo’s High-Performance File Storage System to Accelerate GPU Rendering and Project VFX Delivery Times http://bit.ly/2oJFCJW

About Qumulo, Inc.

Qumulo is the leader in enterprise-proven hybrid cloud file storage, providing real-time visibility, scale and control of your data across on-prem and the cloud. Qumulo’s real-time analytics help save time and money while increasing performance. Built to scale across the data center and cloud, Qumulo’s software-defined file system enables programmatic configuration and management of usage, capacity and performance. Qumulo has completely redefined customer success by continuously delighting customers with new capabilities, 100 percent-usable capacity and direct access to experts. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.

Contacts

A3 Communications for Qumulo

Federica Monsone

qumulo@a3communicationspr.com
+44 1252 875 203