Case Study: khara, inc. cuts video production management costs by 80% with Wasabi Technologies

Hybrid Cloud Solution Cuts Video Production Management Costs by 80%

khara, inc., the Japanese animation production studio behind the Evangelion film series, needed a safer and more efficient way to manage its growing archive of more than 500TB of digital assets across multiple production sites. Its on-premises NAS environment was expensive to maintain, vulnerable to hard drive failures, and slow to rebuild after disk issues, creating risks to valuable production data and adding ongoing administrative burden.

To solve this, khara, inc. implemented a hybrid cloud archiving solution from Wasabi Technologies using Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage with QNAP NAS and QNAP Application HybridMount. The archive is now stored in Wasabi and accessed on-premises as needed through QNAP, delivering predictable pricing, better scalability, and protection from hardware failure. The result was expected to cut operations and management costs by 80%, while maintaining reliable performance and improving efficiency for staff.

khara, inc.

Kazuki Misawa

Chief System Engineer