Molinare Tames Workflow Complexity With Ngenea® Software From pixitmedia, a Kalray Company
03 September 2024 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
By minimizing complexity, Molinare deploys
Ngenea to gain efficiency and remove barriers to expansion;
effective storage frees teams to innovate, boost creativity, and
push the boundaries of post-production
pixitmedia, a subsidiary of Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris:
ALKAL) specializing in storage and data management solutions for
the media & entertainment industry, announced that it assisted
legendary UK post-production firm Molinare in taming production
workflow complexity with an expanded deployment of Ngenea®,
pixitmedia’s flagship data acceleration platform. With Ngenea as
the centerpiece of its technology infrastructure, Molinare is
unlocking new realms of creativity in long-form production.
pixitmedia will showcase Molinare’s deployment and its dazzling
content at IBC 2024 Amsterdam, September 13 – 16, in Hall
5.H79.
“pixitmedia has so massively improved how our systems work
together, with added reliability and new powers to handle complex,
high-resolution projects to extremely tight deadlines,” said Darren
Woolfson, chief technology officer of Molinare. “Backed by the
infrastructure that pixitmedia helped us build around its Ngenea
software, we gained control over our workflows and can continue to
exceed client expectations well into the future.”
Founded in 1973 and now the largest independent post-production
house in the United Kingdom, Molinare specializes in long-form
content and end-to-end finishing services. The company built its
reputation on creative excellence born out of delivering
high-quality work, quickly. As business grew, Molinare’s 15
computing systems in the high-end grading and finishing suites
became even busier with high-framerate 4K projects. The workflow
required passing content from one station to the next, leading to a
proliferation of copies, and major strain on the infrastructure.
With instances of operator frustration on the rise, Molinare saw an
opportunity for a change.
Together pixitmedia and Molinare designed and delivered a
unified central storage solution built around pixitmedia’s Ngenea
intelligent tiering system for optimized media placement.
"Fast storage can provide the level of raw performance for video
to play back, but we needed even more - including a storage
solution that could deliver all levels of performance required to
underpin our entire operation," Woolfson continued. "With Ngenea in
our new system, our team now can routinely handle complex,
high-resolution projects without bottlenecks or delays. We know we
can meet even the tightest of deadlines, and continue to exceed
client expectations," Woolfson said.
Molinare’s enhanced infrastructure uses Ngenea to consolidate
storage islands, creating a cohesive ecosystem where media was
readily available. A leading data acceleration platform for M&E
professionals, Ngenea enables customers to accelerate, with or
without Kalray’s Data Acceleration Cards, the processing of their
data and to streamline complex workflows. Ngenea's single namespace
provided transparency and file access across storage tiers and
remote locations, enhancing flexibility for global expansion. In
addition to Ngenea, Molinare’s unified central storage solution
includes Nvidia Mellanox backend networking for seamless data flow;
lightning-fast NVMe storage for Molinare’s Flame stations and
high-speed online work; and Seagate NL-SAS storage for additional
capacity.
As Molinare team members moved more projects to the new system,
longstanding scheduling conflicts disappeared. With technical
hurdles cleared, Molinare found new time to innovate and push
creative boundaries. The company launched Molinare Creative Group,
a collective of 5 specialized brands, and is expanding into new
markets with facilities planned in Malta and Liverpool. They're
also exploring short-form digital content to reach wider
audiences.
“Technology sets the stage for business success, and we are
delighted that our sister company pixitmedia, leveraging our Ngenea
data acceleration platform, has been able to help Molinare take its
business to the next level,” said Eric Baissus, CEO of Kalray,
parent to pixitmedia.
ABOUT KALRAY
Kalray is a technology innovator specializing in software and
hardware solutions to accelerate data-intensive workflows in Media
& Entertainment, High-Performance Computing, and Artificial
Intelligence. Our comprehensive product range features Ngenea, a
leading data acceleration platform, and accelerated data processing
cards for storage and compute.
With Kalray solutions, customers can scale their infrastructures
to efficiently meet performance and capacity needs for
data-intensive tasks, all without being tied to specific data
formats or vendors.
Founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the French CEA research lab,
Kalray has corporate and financial backing from notable investors
such as Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), NXP
Semiconductors, and Bpifrance. Committed to innovation and
excellence, we strive to deliver value to our customers,
developers, and the planet through technology and expertise.
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