Case Study: NOV boosts global animation productivity with Hammerspace

NOV boosts global file access and productivity by 20% with Hammerspace

NOV, a global energy technology company, faced significant challenges with its cloud-based animation workflow. After transitioning to AWS, its artists in Europe experienced extreme latency and sync issues when accessing files, with delays of up to 10 seconds just to open a folder. This severely disrupted their collaborative work and render farm processes. To solve this, NOV turned to Hammerspace for a solution.

Hammerspace implemented its Unified Global Namespace, uniting two AWS regions into a single high-performance file system. The solution provided instant global file access with multi-protocol support, eliminating latency and making cloud storage feel local for artists. As a result, NOV boosted artist productivity by up to 20%, consolidated its render farms, and streamlined its entire pipeline, enabling work that was previously impossible.

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