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| Like many other users, Brandeau and his team found salvation in a SAN.
| Pixar eventually opted to replace the NFS with a SAN based on an EMC CX700
| box, linked to Dell Linux servers running parallel file system software
| from startup Ibrix.
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| The new system, which was deployed last year, has helped cut Pixar's
| rendering times to their previous levels, while keeping hardware costs
| to a minimum. "We only have eight little Linux boxes that are serving
| up that data. We believe strongly that commodity hardware with lots of
| heads is the way to solve this problem."
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