Wasabi in Partnership With IT Solution Provider Scalar

Wasabi Technologies, Inc., a cloud storage company, announces a reseller partnership with Scalar Decisions Inc., a Toronto based CDW company and Canada’s IT solutions provider.

Together, the companies have integrated Wasabi into Scalar’s StudioCloud managed infrastructure service for media and entertainment.

StudioCloud is a private cloud-based server farm based on technology that is purposely-built for animation/visual effects rendering. With Wasabi, StudioCloud users have instant and on-demand access to Wasabi’s low cost storage solution to stage and render projects of any size and archive them.

StudioCloud takes the burden of technology off the hands of filmmakers and television producers to let them focus on creating great work. With over 100,000 render cores and 6 data centers across North America, it offers secure, fully managed and infinitely scalable compute services for studios of any size. Flexible rental terms allow users to scale up the render and storage capacity they need and stay within the term length allocated to their projects.

An agile and cost effective storage hub for hybrid and multi-cloud media workflows is delivered by Wasabi as it is built on a file system and architecture and has multiple data centers across the US and Europe. Wasabi writes and reads data faster than competing cloud storage services to accelerate the StudioCloud workflow. The company has transformed the cloud storage market by offering a single tier of performing storage with no charges for data egress or API calls.

The technical complexity and increasing cost of producing content for modern animated films is driving studios to move more production and render work to the cloud. A single project often requires thousands of servers and hundreds of terabytes of storage, making it virtually impossible for studios to afford and sustain. Together, the two companies are helping producers to deploy entire studios of infrastructure in days, for the precise duration needed, and provide options to nearline portions of work in progress or archive data.

“Scalar’s animation & VFX clients face the ongoing challenge of staggering data growth on their complex render projects,” stated Paul Kerr, CEO, Scalar. “Now we can help studios access Wasabi’s high-performance and cost-effective storage tier for nearline and archive data workloads. With the pairing of Wasabi and the capability for collaboration over vast geographical areas, we see the vision for StudioCloud users to embrace a global production pipeline as a reality made possible today.“

“Wasabi hot cloud storage is a natural complement to StudioCloud in terms of performance, pricing and scalability,” states David Friend, CEO, Wasabi. “Together, we enable studios to create the most visually stunning entertainment by using state of the art storage and compute resources without capital expenditure and eliminate the ongoing costs of equipment maintenance, management and upgrade. This partnership provides studios with the competitive edge to manage costs and focus their creative and financial resources on making the next great content instead of worrying about prohibitive storage costs.“