Case Study: Enchanting Studio achieves 90% faster video access and 3x data processing with NetApp FAS (ONTAP)

Enchanting Studio Scales up with NetApp Solutions

Enchanting Studio is a Hong Kong–founded CGI studio (expanded to Suzhou) known for animated movies, TV series and game trailers. Rapid growth exposed limits in its legacy setup—files scattered on PCs and hard drives, no dedicated IT, slow access times and risky backups—which hindered collaboration, threatened data loss and left the studio unable to scale for larger projects and team expansion.

Working with NetApp (FAS systems running ONTAP) and Nikoyo consulting, the studio centralized storage and enabled fast snapshot-based sharing and replication. Video open times fell from 2 minutes to 10 seconds (>90% reduction), data processing became 3× faster, the number of machines that can run continuously doubled, and upgrades run with zero downtime—helping Enchanting Studio grow to 40+ employees and achieve roughly 60% revenue growth in 2020.

Enchanting Studio

Wilson Shut

Founder