Monday, August 31, 2009

DreamWorks Animations' Derek Chan to Discuss Animation Studio's Use of Cloud Computing at Red Hat Summit

DreamWorks Animations' Derek Chan to Discuss Animation Studio's Use of Cloud Computing at Red Hat Summit | Reuters: "Chan Will Deliver Keynote, Providing Key Insights into DreamWorks' Utilization of Cloud Computing RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations for DreamWorks Animation, will keynote at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009. Chan will discuss how DreamWorks Animation has leveraged cloud computing technologies to complete numerous films over the past several years. From the early days of 'Antz,' 'Shrek2' and 'Madagascar' to upcoming films such as 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'Shrek Forever After' cloud computing technologies have been crucial to providing the compute resources required to create these films."