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NetApp and DreamWorks Animation Extend Multi-Year Strategic Alliance
Partnership agreement maintains NetApp as the preferred cloud data services provider for the studio during the continued evolution of its hybrid cloud
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nPartnership agreement maintains NetApp as the preferred cloud data services provider for the studio during the continued evolution of its hybrid cloud environment\n\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced the renewal of its strategic alliance and co-engineering partnership with DreamWorks Animation. NetApp will remain DreamWorks’ preferred cloud data services provider, and with the support of NetApp solutions, both on-premises and in the cloud, the studio will continue to evolve its hybrid cloud environment to ensure enhanced productivity, flexibility, and agility.\n\n\nWith the release of its latest animated feature Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, DreamWorks Animation marks more than 25 years pushing the boundaries of both animation and the technologies they use to bring innovative films to global audiences. From the very beginning, NetApp has provided the studio with cutting-edge solutions to manage its ever-increasing production demands and data complexity. Additionally, NetApp’s co-engineering partnership with DreamWorks brings together engineers from both organizations to solve real-world engineering problems focused on optimizing workflows in a hybrid cloud environment, while decreasing latency.\n\n\n“We’ve worked in lockstep with DreamWorks Animation to enable the studio’s digital transformation journey and accelerate its growth with NetApp’s product portfolio and the innovations resulting from our co-engineering efforts,” said Gabrielle Boko, CMO at NetApp. “NetApp’s All Flash Array solutions were the foundation of the hybrid storage required to manage the production’s complex data requirements, and it simplified the workflows for the giant character model of Ruby Gillman, so that the animators were focused on creativity, not capacity management.”\n\n\nThe technological advancements resulting from the NetApp and DreamWorks alliance include:\n\n\n\nImproved performance using NetApp AFF in DreamWorks’ high-performance computing environment and the ability to tier data more efficiently to NetApp StorageGrid.\n\n\n\nIncreased agility by extending applications to the cloud using Azure NetApp Files and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, while extending geographic reach to support distributed resources.\n\n\n\nDecreased latency and a reduced d...