Dell powers Lightstorm’s infrastructure for Avatar: Fire & Ash

Dell Technologies highlights its role as the infrastructure partner enabling Lightstorm Entertainment’s data-intensive production of “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

• Lightstorm uses Dell PowerScale for high-performance access to hundreds of millions of files, with SyncIQ replication synchronizing up to 40 concurrent data streams between Los Angeles and New Zealand; Dell ObjectScale provides a private cloud for petabyte-scale archival storage, with automated checks and snapshots to maintain a fully digital workflow.
• Dell PowerEdge servers power Lightstorm’s render farms and virtual environments, scaling clusters to support AI-assisted methods and heavier workloads while maintaining real-time reviews and uninterrupted rendering; the long-term partnership (“more than a decade”) is positioned as future-proofing the Avatar franchise’s increasingly complex virtual production pipeline.