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    May 28, 2012
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      1Star Wars storage

      1

      LucasFilms Ltd.s headquarters in the Presido section of downtown San Francisco overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge.

      2Star Wars storage – Mike Thompson

      2

      Industrial Light & Magic storage chief Mike Thompson runs a system that must store and classify content from about 500 artists, animators, and modelers.

      3Star Wars storage – ILM data center

      3

      ILMs Mike Thompson shows the ILM data center, located at the LucasFilm headquarters in San Francisco..

      4Star Wars storage – Darth Vader

      4

      Movie characters such as Darth Vader now live in digital files stored away in huge video storage systems.

      5Star Wars storage – Yoda

      5

      Favorite screen images, such as a young Yoda flaunting a lightsabre, all will reside for the short — and long term — in digital files stored in huge and secure storage systems.

      6Star Wars storage – Yoda fountain

      6

      Yoda himself greets visitors to LucasFilms Ltd.s headquarters in the Presido section of downtown San Francisco.

      7Star Wars storage – KGO-TV control room

      7

      The KGO-TV control room monitors four station feeds on a 24/7 basis — including two high-definition channels. Every second of content is redundantly backed up and archived.

      8Star Wars storage – KGO-TV storage robot

      8

      KGO-TVs Sun StorageTek digital storage system is a silo that holds several hundred 200GB disks, with a robot (right) that does all the accessing. The system can hold up to 20 terabytes of data.

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