We created the shared datacenter

Ron,

This is awesome, passing it to the group now… Looking forward to coming down and checking it out J

Hi John,

You’ve been interested in this project and now I can finally talk about it. We did it! Please feel free to post this on the StudioSysAdmin site if you feel it’s something our general membership would be interested in.

The major points:

<![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]>It’s a partnership between the Vancouver Studio Group, the Vancouver Digital Media Center (public education partnership btw SFU, BCIT, and Emily Carr), and Scalar Decisions (VAR).

<![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]>Each studio has 2 options:

<![if !supportLists]>o   <![endif]>Lease any number of servers and install their private network to the datacenter

<![if !supportLists]>o   <![endif]>Install their private network to the datacenter and rent available servers from other studios

<![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]>Initially we have 3 studios, Rainmaker, Digital Domain and Image Engine

<![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]>Beauty of this solution

<![if !supportLists]>o   <![endif]>Less than $8/day/server

<![if !supportLists]>o   <![endif]>When we need more servers we rent from each other, or if none are available we sign a lease for additional servers

<![if !supportLists]>o   <![endif]>When we’re not using our servers we rent to other studios. This offsets some or all of our operating costs.

<![if !supportLists]>o   <![endif]>It will be available to other industries (high tech, research, oil&gas), and universities. Anyone needing computing resources.

<![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]>Next steps, we’re looking at shared workstations, a network connecting our studios together with education centers and companies that do business with studios, and storage if we can work out the security details.

<![if !supportLists]>-          <![endif]>Go live date the beginning of March 2012

Here are the press releases to date:

Vancouver Sun: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Collaborators+seek+power+Vancouver+digital+entertainment+prospects/6058086/story.html

Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vancouver-turns-up-cloud-computing-285279

Business in Vancouver: http://www.bivinteractive.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5318:vancouver-super-computer-movie-processing-hub-launched&catid=14:daily-news&Itemid=46

Cynopsis Digital: http://www.cynopsis.com/editions/digital/013012/

Techvibes: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bc-film-industry-floats-into-the-cloud-thanks-to-scalars-latest-project-rendercloud-2012-01-30

Mediacaster: http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/news/bc-film-digital-media-industry-works-in-the-cloud/1000863422/

Geekwire: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/ewok-village-oregon-facebooks-ticker-symbol-weekend-notes

Digital Home: http://www.digitalhome.ca/2012/02/b-c-film-industry-gets-digital-boost-from-rendercloud-computing-solution/

There are also print pieces pending in Variety, IT Canada and Computer Graphics World.

Sincerely,

Ron Stinson                            

Director of I.T. and Operations   

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