DreamWorks Animation is in many ways a manufacturer of digital data. The films it produces comprise multiple terabytes of data, created by teams of artists working together with sophisticated digital animation tools in a complex data pipeline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and that animation factory floor had to close, DreamWorks production was able to keep chugging along due to business continuity planning, analytics, and a multi-tenant cloud architecture.
“You watch our movies as data, either through a streamer or a digital projector in a theater,” says Skottie Miller, technology fellow and vice president of platform and services architecture at DreamWorks. “Because of the multi-tenant, work-from-anywhere-on-campus environment, when the pandemic hit, what really changed for us? We still operate like a multi-tenant cloud. We still have our data in Glendale, in Las Vegas. And the people just went to offices, their houses, that were further away.”
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