IT challenges at Lucasfilm

August 8, 2008, 1:37pm PDT | Length: 00:05:45
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new facility in the middle of production for Star Wars: Episode III, and how they're looking ahead, with advances like running private fiber lines right to desktops.
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