Case Study: Atomic Cartoons achieves 2x data reduction and 20% lower TCO with Cohesity

Atomic Cartoons Realizes 2x Data Reduction, 20% Lower TCO with Cohesity

Atomic Cartoons, a North American animation studio producing petabyte-scale 2D and 3D projects for clients like Netflix and Disney+, was struggling with backup and archive workflows. Relying on Isilon snapshots and tape archival left IT with rising storage pressures, slow, performance-impacting backups that artists noticed, and slow, multi-step restores when work was accidentally deleted.

By deploying Cohesity’s modern data management platform (with nightly incrementals and file‑exclusion rules), Atomic automated protection across its studios and cut unnecessary data from backups. The result: backups for large projects accelerated from months to days or hours, data reduction doubled (saving about 75% of volume—e.g., episodes from ~40 TB to ~11 TB), restores became fast and simple, IT reclaimed about three hours per week, and overall data management TCO fell roughly 20%.

Atomic Cartoons

Robert Crowther

IT Manager