NetApp Customer Industrial Light & Magic Named 2006 InfoWorld 100 Winner.Entertainment Industry Visual Effects Studio Scores Top Marks for Innovation in a Multimedia Environment with NetApp[R] Storage SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NTAP NTAP Network Appliance, Inc. (stock symbol) NTAP Never Take Another Puff NTAP National Track Analysis Program NTAP Notices to Airmen Publication NTAP Windows NT Application Processors NTAP Naval Training Acquisition Process ) customer Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a Lucasfilm Ltd. company serving the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual effects, has been named a 2006 InfoWorld 100 winner for innovation in the Multimedia category. The InfoWorld 100 Awards are among the technology industry's most prestigious and honor companies like ILM that use technology in smart, innovative, and creative ways to meet business and technical objectives. ILM is the powerhouse visual effects firm who brought magic and wizardry wiz·ard·ry n. pl. wiz·ard·ries 1. The art, skill, or practice of a wizard; sorcery. 2. a. A power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform: to life in the most recent Harry Potter film, created a compelling and memorable climatic E-ber-disaster in The Day After Tomorrow, inspired alien dread in War of the Worlds, dazzled the world with Star Wars Episodes I through III, helped Pirates of the Caribbean This article is about the franchise. For other, more specific uses, see Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation). For real pirates, see Piracy in the Caribbean. Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl The Black Pearl, originally HEIC Wicked Wench, is a fictional ship in , , and . The Black Pearl is easily recognised by her distinctive black hull and sails. This turns out to be an advantage in more than one way. begin a blockbuster franchise, and most recently worked to bring the magic of Christopher Paolini's Eragon to the big screen in a stunning 20th Century Fox major motion picture. "ILM demonstrates how harnessing the power of NetApp can create worlds of incredible believability Co especially noteworthy under the rigorous demands of the film industry, which is intensely competitive, bound by tight production and distribution timelines, and increasingly reliant on visual effects to bring in big box office results," said Elisa Steele, vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "We are proud of the contributions we made to ILM in all of their film work and are very happy that the IT team at ILM was honored with the InfoWorld 100 Award. ILM proves how NetApp storage systems can help customers simplify management of massive amounts of data even in an environment where high performance is paramount. We hope ILM's use of NetApp storage to make some of the world's most visually stunning films inspires other great companies to push their own data infrastructures to the next level." ILM deployed a NetApp Data ONTAP ONTAP Open Network Technology for Appliance Products [R] GX high-performance solution to satisfy an insatiable demand for extreme levels of performance and to handle the incredibly large graphics and image rendering demands of several blockbuster films that have dominated movie buzz for the last few years. NetApp Data ONTAP GX systems are fully integrated, multinode solutions designed to meet the needs of the most demanding applications in high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. , offering extreme throughput, unsurpassed flexibility, and NetApp hallmark simplicity and reliability. Additionally, ILM relied on the global namespace A Global Namespace is a heterogeneous, enterprise-wide abstraction of all file information, open to dynamic customization based on user-defined parameters. This becomes of particular importance as multiple network based file systems proliferate within an organization -- the challenge capabilities found in Data ONTAP GX to cluster and migrate its entire data center and rendering infrastructure to its new headquarters in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Co all while in heavy production and without a moment of downtime. "The 2006 recipients of InfoWorld's highest honor have used technology best to improve their businesses," said Richard Gincel, InfoWorld senior editor. "Honorees like ILM prove that innovation starts with daring to embrace change." Details on all winners of the 2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards are available online at www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=83513. About Network Appliance Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage The capability of combining different data formats such as files, folders, contacts and e-mail messages into collections that can be viewed and manipulated as one group. See WinFS. solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that simplify data management. Information about Network Appliance[TM] solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com. About Industrial Light & Magic Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is a Lucasfilm Ltd. company serving the digital needs of the entertainment industry for visual effects. ILM has been awarded 14 Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and received 17 Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards. NetApp and Data ONTAP are registered trademarks and Network Appliance is a trademark of Network Appliance Inc. in the United States and other countries. 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