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SAN FRANCISCO–Given the cult-film status of 1971′s THX 1138 in the George Lucas universe, it should come as little surprise that the total capacity of Lucasfilm’s giant data center is 11.38 petabits per second.

Granted, that number–which represents the value one would get by adding up the bandwidth capacity of all the company’s 1 gigabit per second desktop machines and its 10-gbps backbone–is purely theoretical. But in an environment like Lucasfilm, which is celebrating four Oscar nominations this week, and where self-referential history is a big parlor game, numbers like that are nothing to be messed with.

The 10-gbps backbone is the core of the data center’s network. That rate is faster than the prevailing industry standard of around 1 gbps for most servers.

Very cool an article discussing what technologies Lucasfilm are using in their datacenter with some pictures of it! A welcome opportunity to see what they use and what challenges they have. As expected their core challenge is datacenter power, and storage as you’d expect from a company heavily into digital arts.

Interestingly though storage remains a key issue for the larger organizations, how the storage is used, how secure it is, how recoverable and how long it is retained. The challenge is  always that I might purchase an EMC rig with terabytes of data storage, however, spread that over a large site say 4000 people, 1000 servers, include replication and that terabyte of data can soon look inadequate.

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