Please mark your calendars for the next StudioSysAdmins meeting in Vancouver to be held on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 sponsored by Annex Pro along with BlueArc.

"Tiered Storage for Entertainment – Demystified" presented by Nick Jarvis - Senior Systems Engineer @ BlueArc

Although Nick works for BlueArc, this will not be a sales presentation, we encourage all Members of StudioSysAdmins to attend, especially those who want to learn more about this topic in general.

We would like to thank both BlueArc and Annex Pro for their assistance in this event.

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

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 594 registered Members which represent 326 different Companies.

An important thing to note is that 200 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 and make sure you include the following information:

Also, please indicate if you do not wish to be added to any of the following e-mail lists:

Please read more About StudioSysAdmins and register today!

Please join us for the next StudioSysAdmins meeting for the Toronto chapter being sponsored by both HP and Ocarina Networks - Thursday March 11th, 2010.

HP's Storage Solutions for Media and Entertainment are designed to help you regain control of your content without losing your grip on costs will be presented by Andy Steel - HP NAS Canadian Sales Specialist and Todd Acheson - HP NAS Architect.

Ocarina Networks will also give us a generic presentation on compression and deduplication as well as their plans for end-to-end optimization - Presented by Goutham Rao - CTO.

Goutham Rao is responsible for algorithmic research and design, architectural guidance, and technology vision at Ocarina. He has an MS Computer Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Ocarina he was the CTO of Net 6 and joined Citrix via the acquisition. Goutham has worked as an open source Linux kernel developer AND a key Operating Systems Architect at Intel where he worked on the IA-64 project. At Intel, Goutham worked on various UNIX Kernels, and in particular designed and implemented some key components of Linux's Intel 64-bit architecture.

We would like to thank both HP and Ocarina Networks for both presenting and sponsoring this event.

Please RSVP to this event early, as space may be limited.