Qumulo Adds Support for Amazon Nimble Studio

Qumulo, Inc. announced support for Amazon Nimble Studio, a service that enables customers to set up creative studios in hours instead of weeks, with elasticity that gives them near limitless scale and access to rendering on demand.

Amazon Nimble Studio
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With Nimble Studio, customers can rapidly onboard and collaborate with artists from anywhere in the world and produce content faster and more cost effectively. Artists will have access to accelerated virtual workstations, fast storage, and scalable rendering across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) global infrastructure, so they can create content faster as part of virtual teams. Together with performance file data management from Qumulo, customers can unlock remote content creation workflows at massive scale and performance across nearly every aspect of the M&E data lifecycle on AWS global infrastructure at petabyte scale, with real-time visibility, predictive caching, and an API.

Powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G4 instances, Amazon Nimble Studio virtual workstations provide on-demand compute power to handle the demands of even the most challenging content creation needs. It supports both Windows and Linux, as well as industry-standard digital content creation applications. Nimble Studio customers who choose Qumulo receive an agnostic file storage solution that is simple to manage in the cloud.

M&E companies experienced a digital transformation over the past year as many studios shifted to virtual collaboration within the cloud. Because of this, the company’s experienced growth of file data created by M&E customers in 2020. The company currently supports 7 of the top 10 M&E companies, and is designed to handle the demanding media and video production workloads. Studios including Industrial Brothers, Cinesite, Raynault VFX and FuseFX use Qumulo to produce television shows, animated feature films and world-renowned VFX projects, such as The Greatest Showman, American Horror Story, Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys, and The Avengers, to name a few.

“The shift to a distributed workforce has forced production teams to collaborate in remote, cloud environments resulting in data being generated by M&E companies more than ever before,” said Keith Nargi, field CTO. “At Qumulo, we provide creative teams with a modern infrastructure that is simple to use and highly scalable to meet the needs of changing project demands. We’re honored to be a launch partner of Amazon Nimble Studio.“

Resources:
Cloud Q for AWS
Qumulo Cloud Q
Qumulo Expands Cloud Q Offering on AWS
Blog : The Show Must Go On! Expert Panel on Creative Collaboration Anywhere
Blog :Major M&E Studios and Networks Drive Unprecedented Increase in File Data