Association aims to create better animation production
Alibaba Cloud technology part of Alibaba group has announced a partnership with Animal Logic, an Australian animation and visual effects digital studio based company to meet growing and challenging requirements of media production.
Animal logic has started backing up its production content onto Alibaba Cloud’s world class computing platform. Through this partnership, the parties hope to drive efficiencies of media production by developing more cloud computing technologies. Alibaba Cloud acknowledged by Gartner, a cloud computing company can meet demanding requirements set by Animal Logic by providing its first class storage solution.
This partnership will bring increased efficiency and safety to the artists at Animal Logic and enhance limitations of animation. Alibaba Cloud’s cross border network covers 20 regions and 61 zones globally. It is also first cloud provider to fulfill the additional requirements of Germany’s Cloud Computing Compliance.
Global Technology collaboration for data security and backup
As one of the world’s well known digital production studio, which has created animation and visual effects for award winning film including Peter Rabbit, The LEGO movie 2, Caption Marvel and Happy Feet, Animal Logic requires high performance cloud storage platform that can quickly scale up for backup requirements. In which, 150 TB of data can be generated in 24 hour period. The company needed a partner which could provide them with secure data protection and secure backup solution.
“Our partnership with Alibaba Cloud will provide us with the best technology to secure our content more efficiently. Also we have the capability to backup large amounts of data and in turn, operate seamlessly even during our busiest times.” says Darin Grant, Animal Logic’s Chief Technology Officer.
Alibaba Cloud and Animal Logic will continue working on future storage and backup projects, large scale rendering farm requirements and migration of legacy application to the cloud. These projects will support Animal Logic’s multi Cloud applications and old hardware.
To protect storage safety and enhance the approach to Disaster Recovery, Alibaba Cloud planned a storage gateway for Animal Logic and created private networks to minimize trouble during data transfer. The data during transfer will also be encrypted to enhance the level of security.
