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EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that LAIKA, the studio behind the Academy Award-nominated Coraline, has deployed more than a petabyte of EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform for its end-to-end animation and computer graphics (CG) workflow, simplifying big data management to increase artist collaboration and accelerate project completion. Using Isilon’s SmartPools software application, LAIKA has unified three performance tiers into a single file system, consolidating its compositing, computer graphics and stop motion workflows onto a single, shared storage resource, streamlining production operations and improving IT efficiency.

“We need our artists focused on the creative process, not waiting for render jobs to finish or content to migrate, so a single, shared storage resource that can accommodate a range of access patterns and performance requirements is a game-changer for us,” said Jonathan Rozes, director of IT, LAIKA. “Before Isilon, we had to manage our workflows separately, which made management a hassle and limited our productivity. By moving to Isilon, we’ve consolidated our entire production operation on one, simple solution, which not only minimized management, but helped expand our bandwidth for new projects.”

• EMC Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage platform
• EMC next-generation backup solutions

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