Nu Boyana Film AD - Bulgaria

About company

Nu Boyana Film AD is a leading European film production studio based in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a subsidiary of Millennium Media. Founded in the 1960s and modernized after its acquisition in 2005, the studio has hosted major international productions such as The Expendables and London Has Fallen.

The company provides full-cycle production services including filming, VFX, and post-production, supporting both Hollywood-scale projects and regional productions.

As project complexity and demand for high-resolution content increased, Nu Boyana Film required modern IT infrastructure capable of handling intensive rendering and post-production workloads. Their technical strategy focused on improving performance while maintaining cost efficiency, ensuring that infrastructure upgrades would not significantly impact production budgets.

Request

Nu Boyana Film AD contacted Servermall to replace aging server infrastructure that was no longer capable of supporting modern post-production demands.

The studio required a high-performance, enterprise-grade solution capable of handling rendering, VFX processing, and large-scale media workflows with consistent reliability.

In addition to performance improvements, the company was looking for a cost-effective alternative to new hardware, along with fast delivery and long-term support to minimize disruption to ongoing production processes.

Goals

Replace outdated servers with high-performance enterprise infrastructure.
Improve rendering speed and post-production workflow efficiency.
Ensure high reliability with minimal downtime during production cycles.
Maintain cost efficiency while securing long-term hardware support.

Solution & Configuration

After analyzing the client’s workload requirements, Servermall delivered a refurbished enterprise solution optimized for compute-intensive media production environments.

The selected platform was based on HPE DL360 Gen10 servers, offering strong CPU performance, high memory capacity, and reliable operation under sustained workloads.

The final delivered configuration included:

• 2 × HPE DL360 Gen10 8SFF

• 2 × Intel Xeon Gold 6134 (8C, 24.75MB Cache, 3.20 GHz)

• 8 × 32GB DDR4 RDIMM 2666MHz

• RAID HPE E208e-p SR Gen10

• iLO 5 Standard

• 2 × Power supply HP 800W

• Integrated 4 port 1Gb + 2 port 10Gb SFP+

• Rack mount kit 19"

• 2 × Tray Caddy

• 5-year warranty

All systems were fully tested and validated prior to shipment to ensure stability under rendering and VFX workloads. The configuration allows flexible scaling of compute and memory resources as production demands grow.

Results

After deployment, Nu Boyana Film AD achieved measurable operational improvements:

Rendering performance increased by approximately 28–32%, reducing average 4K VFX processing time from around 8 hours to 5.5–6 hours per sequence.
Post-production workflows accelerated by roughly 22–27%, enabling faster editing cycles and shorter project turnaround times.

System downtime decreased from approximately 8–10 hours per month to under 3 hours, improving production continuity.

Infrastructure acquisition costs were reduced by about 18–22% compared to equivalent new enterprise hardware.

The upgraded infrastructure enabled the studio to process more complex visual effects workloads while maintaining stable performance and predictable costs.

This solution strengthened Nu Boyana Film’s production capabilities, allowing them to meet tighter deadlines and handle higher volumes of projects without increasing operational overhead.