How DreamWorks Decreased their Dollar-per-GB and their Watts-per-GB with Primary Data Compression Skottie Miller, Senior Technologist, Dreamworks With the desire to "keep everything" related to the animation production process as on-line reference material, DreamWorks is implementing a "cheap and deep" reference library, with a emphasis on inexpensive initial deployment, and low Total Cost of Ownership. As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to: * Design a Computer Generated (CG) Animation production process, from a compute and storage perspective * Develop implementation strategies for low-cost spinning disk reference libraries, including data compression, file virtualization, de-duplication and power management * Develop an appreciation of "GreenWorks" efforts around efficient data center implementation and operation, including power conservation, cooling efficiency and high-density compute farm deployment. [ close this window ]