Molinare Tames Workflow Complexity with Ngenea® Software From pixitmedia, a Kalray Company
September 05 2024 - 8:58AM
Business Wire
By minimizing complexity, Molinare deploys
Ngenea to gain efficiency and remove barriers to expansion;
effective storage frees teams to innovate, boost creativity, and
push the boundaries of post-production
pixitmedia, a subsidiary of Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris:
ALKAL) specializing in storage and data management solutions for
the media & entertainment industry, announced that it assisted
legendary UK post-production firm Molinare in taming production
workflow complexity by deploying Ngenea®, pixitmedia’s flagship
data acceleration platform. With Ngenea as the centerpiece of its
technology infrastructure, Molinare is unlocking new realms of
creativity in long-form production.
pixitmedia will showcase Molinare’s deployment and its
innovative data storage solution at IBC 2024 Amsterdam, September
13 – 16, in Hall 5.H79.
“pixitmedia has so massively improved how our systems work
together, with added reliability and new powers to handle complex,
high-resolution projects to extremely tight deadlines,” said Darren
Woolfson, chief technology officer of Molinare. “Backed by the
infrastructure that pixitmedia helped us build around its Ngenea
software, we gained control over our workflows and can continue to
exceed client expectations well into the future.”
Founded in 1973 and now the largest independent post-production
house in the United Kingdom, Molinare specializes in long-form
content and end-to-end finishing services for major clients like
Netflix and the BBC, on award-winning titles such as Peaky
Blinders, Sexy Beast and Beckham. The company built its reputation
on creative excellence born out of delivering high-quality work,
quickly. As business grew, Molinare’s 15 high-end digital grading
and finishing suites for AutoDesk Flame and Filmlight BaseLight
work became even busier with high-framerate 4K projects. The
workflow required passing content from one station to the next,
leading to a proliferation of copies, and major strain on the
infrastructure. With instances of operator frustration on the rise,
Molinare saw an opportunity for a change.
Together pixitmedia and Molinare designed and delivered a
unified central storage solution built around pixitmedia’s Ngenea
intelligent tiering system for optimized media placement.
"Fast storage can provide the level of raw performance for video
to play back, but we needed even more - including a storage
solution that could deliver all levels of performance required to
underpin our entire operation," Woolfson continued. "With Ngenea,
our team now can routinely handle complex, high-resolution projects
without bottlenecks or delays. We know we can meet even the
tightest of deadlines, and continue to exceed client expectations,
" Woolfson said.
Molinare’s enhanced infrastructure uses Ngenea to consolidate
storage islands, creating a cohesive ecosystem via an intelligent
tiering system where media was readily available. A leading data
acceleration platform for M&E professionals, Ngenea enables
customers to accelerate the processing of their data and to
streamline complex workflows. Ngenea's single namespace provided
transparency and file access across storage tiers and remote
locations, enhancing flexibility for global expansion. In addition
to Ngenea, Molinare’s unified central storage solution includes
Nvidia Mellanox backend networking for seamless data flow ; Seagate
NL-SAS storage for additional capacity ; and lightning-fast NVMe
storage for Molinare’s Flame stations and high-speed online work.
This approach gave Molinare transparent file access across storage
tiers and remote locations, reducing scheduling conflicts and
enhancing workflow efficiency. As a result, Molinare improved its
infrastructure reliability, eliminated bottlenecks, and gaining
control of their complex and data intensive workflows, setting the
stage for future growth and innovation.
As Molinare team members moved more projects to the new system,
longstanding scheduling conflicts disappeared. With technical
hurdles cleared, Molinare found new time to innovate and push
creative boundaries. The company launched Molinare Creative Group,
a collective of 5 specialized brands, and is expanding into new
markets with facilities planned in Malta and Liverpool. They're
also exploring short-form digital content to reach wider
audiences.
“Technology sets the stage for business success, and we are
delighted that our sister company pixitmedia, leveraging our Ngenea
data acceleration platform, has been able to help Molinare take its
business to the next level,” said Eric Baissus, CEO of Kalray,
parent to pixitmedia.
ABOUT KALRAY
Kalray is a technology innovator specializing in software and
hardware solutions to accelerate data-intensive workflows in Media
& Entertainment, High-Performance Computing, and Artificial
Intelligence. Our comprehensive product range features Ngenea, a
leading data acceleration platform, and accelerated data processing
cards for storage and compute.
With Kalray solutions, customers can scale their infrastructures
to efficiently meet performance and capacity needs for
data-intensive tasks, all without being tied to specific data
formats or vendors.
Founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the French CEA research lab,
Kalray has corporate and financial backing from notable investors
such as Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), NXP
Semiconductors, and Bpifrance. Committed to innovation and
excellence, we strive to deliver value to our customers,
developers, and the planet through technology and expertise.
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