StudioSysAdmins is a social networking community dedicated to improving infrastructure, workflows and support across the Entertainment/Digital Content Creation Industry. An expanding community with one common site that joins Systems Administrators, Technical Directors, Pipeline Developers, Consultants, Hardware/Software Support Engineers and Hardware/Software Vendors and Resellers (VARs) that currently work and/or in some way support production and post-production studios in the areas of  animation, visual-fx, film, and games.

Our goal is to enable the sharing of all non-proprietary information among all of our Members and to maintain open discussions between studios, vendors and VARs to look at ways that standards can be set in order to help improve support for the installation, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of hardware, software and operating systems.

Currently, we hold regular meetings In Los Angeles, Toronto and Vancouver that are hosted by one of our Members studios and/or sponsored by one or more of our supporting member Companies to present and/or discuss ongoing issues/concerns, new/future technologies, as well as social conversation.

StudioSysAdmins currently has 552 registered Members which represent 311 different Companies.

An important thing to note is that 193 of these Companies are Production Studios.

Registration Information:

We are always looking to expand our membership around the world and membership if free.

If you are interested in becoming a member, please send an e-mail to SignMeUp@StudioSysAdmins.com

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Please read more About StudioSysAdmins and register today!

StudioSysAdmins would like to help spread the word about the Crisis Camp series of events to help with the current crisis in Haiti. These events are open to anyone that can give their time and/or expertise for several projects. Crisis Camps have been popping up all around the world and continue to expand and grow each day, so please, check on the Crisis Commons website for upcoming events in your local area.

We have listed a few of the upcoming events below (please check the links for more details):

About Crisis Camp

CrisisCamp will bring together domain experts, developers, and first responders around improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief. Each and every day, people across the world can find themselves in crisis. Whether it be for a day, a month or an area of social distress, we all have a common need to connect with loved ones, access information and offer assistance to others.

CrisisCamps are hosted in a barcamp style where great minds come together to share their knowledge and expertise for social good.

Spread the word.

The next StudioSysAdmins meeting for the Toronto chapter sponsored by ESI Technologies with a presentation from Brocade Communications will be held on Thursday January 28th, 2010.

Brocade will present an introduction to next generation data centre solutions and standards including FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet), CEE (Converged Enhanced Ethernet), 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, TRILL (Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links), PoE+, and EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet), in addition to a summary of Brocade IP product offerings and differentiators.

Speakers:

Greg Jackman - Brocade Territory Sales Representative

Terry Henry - Brocade Senior Systems Engineer

About our sponsors:

ESI Technologies is a leading mission critical infrastructure integrator and software solutions developer in Canada. ESI specializes in the development, integration and support of quality IT solutions that ensure the availability, security, management and performance of critical data, applications and networks. As well, ESI develops software solutions tailored to our client’s specific business needs and offers integrated business management solutions such as Action, MBS and Oracle. ESI Technologies is headquartered in Montreal, with offices in Toronto and Quebec City.

Brocade Communications is the dominate leader in Fiber Channel networks with greater than 90% of the storage market and with its recent acquisition of Foundry Networks, is gaining significant market share in the IP networking space with leading edge, high performance converged networks.

We would like to thank both ESI Technologies and Brocade Communications for sponsoring this event.

Please RSVP to this event early, as space is limited.

The next StudioSysAdmins meeting for the Vancouver chapter will be held on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009.

Please join us for our second StudioSysAdmins meeting in the Vancouver area which is graciously being sponsored by Seven Group.   The main topic of this meeting will be about High Density Computing with speakers from SGI/Rackable who will describe the solutions that they have helped design for clients such as Google and YouTube as well as introduce us to their latest technology UltraViolet.

At the Supercomputing 2009 show (November 16th), SGI unveiled what officials are calling the fastest and most scalable shared-memory system. Powered by Intel's upcoming "Nehalem EX" Xeon processors, the Altix UV can scale from 32 to 2,048 processing cores and can support up to 16 terabytes of shared memory in a single image, all within four server racks.

This meeting is open to all Members of StudioSysAdmins.

We would like to thank both SGI/Rackable and Seven Group for their assistance in sponsoring this event.

Please RSVP to this event early, as space is limited.

The next StudioSysAdmins meeting for the Toronto chapter will be held on Thursday November 12th, 2009.

It has been over a year since the first meeting in Toronto which started it all.  We would like to have a brief update on what people think of the group so far and the direction/goals you would like to see for the future. We will also be joined by David DeCastro (presenting), Mike Glover and Dan Hobson from IBM who will be giving us a presentation on cost,  space and power savings with their new IBM iDataplex offering, as well as, the new HS22 Blade.

Please note that the meeting portion of this event will not be open to other hardware or software vendors.

We would like to thank both IBM and 3Viz for their assistance in sponsoring this event.

Please RSVP to this event early, as space is limited.