Case Study: Leading Media & Entertainment Company achieves massively scalable, cost‑saving post‑production private cloud with Mirantis OpenStack

Media Leader Deploys Mirantis OpenStack Software and Services for Massively Scalable and Distributed Post-Production Workloads

A global media and entertainment leader with hundreds of studios and labs faced exploding post‑production demand from 3D, 4K and special effects workflows: massive, irregular compute and storage spikes, rising project‑specific server costs, and a projected 100x growth in media storage. Central IT needed to improve innovation and time‑to‑market, increase server utilization, and shift capital expenditures to a pay‑as‑you‑go model while meeting strict content security requirements.

The company created a cloud‑first IT group and deployed a multi‑site Mirantis OpenStack private cloud with Ceph storage, fronted by RightScale CPM and ServiceNow ITSM for automation and governance. The new platform cut provisioning time from weeks to minutes (≈99% faster), eliminated upfront project server costs, substantially increased utilization and data‑center consolidation, saved divisions hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions company‑wide), and accelerated innovation and time‑to‑market.