Case Study: BUCK achieves global collaboration at scale with Hammerspace

BUCK Chooses Hammerspace to Enable Collaboration at Scale

BUCK, a global creative company with about 800 employees and freelance artists across five offices, needed a faster way to manage large volumes of unstructured data for 50 to 100 active projects at a time. Its teams had been working in silos with multiple NAS systems and manual data copying between locations, which made collaboration across regions slow and limited its ability to staff projects globally. Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform was brought in to create a high-performance, storage-agnostic single global namespace.

Hammerspace was deployed at four BUCK offices to unify data access across Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, and Sydney, letting artists work on the same files in a live file system without moving copies between sites. The implementation ran quickly, with the first cluster operational in about four hours and a multi-site single namespace demonstrated in less than two days. Hammerspace also let BUCK use Supermicro NVMe servers for heavy workloads and repurpose existing NAS as tier 2 storage, improving collaboration, efficiency, and scalability across its global operations.

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John Kleber

Chief Technology Officer