As a company that consistently uses technology as one of its core competencies, DreamWorks Animation demonstrates the successful adoption of Red Hat products. A customer of Red Hat for more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation first deployed Red Hat Linux in its mission-critical render farm. Today, almost every DreamWorks Animation artist has Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop running on the latest HP workstation and nearly every DreamWorks Animation server is powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology running on the latest HP servers.
In 2001, DreamWorks Animation adopted Red Hat Linux as the core operating system for its render farm, which today is comprised of thousands of servers used to compute and produce the final frames of DreamWorks Animation's movies. Previously, the company had used proprietary hardware and software, until it became clear that commodity hardware powered by open source operating systems could give DreamWorks Animation the ability to scale to address the company's growing creative ambitions.
DreamWorks Animation uses Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization technologies such as load balancing and live migration to keep its mission-critical applications available through planned maintenance.
Benefits:
In addition to cost savings by migrating from its previous grid and virtualization platforms to Red Hat Enterprise MRG and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
With the implementation of Red Hat Enterprise MRG, DreamWorks Animation is able to maintain the performance and scalability required for its artists. Not only has the Company exceeded its utilization goals in load and stress testing, but DreamWorks Animation has also shown that Red Hat Enterprise MRG can easily scale to support the 30,000+ cores in-use and growing ambition.
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No author (ND) Dreamworks animation utilizes the Red Hat portfolio to build a private cloud for financial and creative applications.
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