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Sony Pictures Imageworks, the special effects company behind Alice in Wonderland 3D, is virtualising its filers behind Avere appliances. SPI has been in the computer-generated imagery (CGI) field since 1992 and worked on movies such as Die Hard With A Vengeance and Anger Management. It has a digital animation studio in Culver …

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  1. Alastair 7

    Wow!

    What a remarkable puff piece you've written there!

  2. Isilon_Nick

    Avere not front Isilon

    Chris,

    Glad to hear Avere is making some real progress with their scale-out caching appliance. We at Isilon love the approach!

    To set the record straight, Sony is not fronting Isilon with their equipment. I spoke with Sony and they are only fronting NetApp filers across the WAN.

    Just want to set the record straight. ;)

    Nick

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    A small correction

    Apparently Sony is *considering* using the Avere appliances in front of their Isilon clusters... but what they are really doing right now in using them in front of the NetApp appliances... I don't see that mentioned in the article.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Welcome

    New Tech

    It seems that they are trying out new tech... Doesn't NetApp have the same tech w/ FlexCache and PAM... a la the Avatar stuff @ WETA.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Welcome

      New Tech

      WETA uses BlueArc for their 34000 core render wall.....a la the Avatar stuff

      http://www.searchstorageasia.com/content/weta-digital-utilizes-bluearc-and-netapp-clustered-nas

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