Sunshine Whitton
Server, storage, and media consultant

NW Film Club - Absolute Technology

• http://absolutetech.com
• http://nwfilmclub.com

Founder of a digital media users group, nwfilmclub.com: Monthly brownbag style networking events for digital media professionals; directors, producers, camera operators, editers, fx/post production, etc.

Full time technology consultant, absolutetech.com: Server, storage, and media consultant for SMB market. Technology and media training. Red tech consulting around Red Digital Cinema camera and post production workflow. Free vmware, storage, and Red camera demos... Cool stuff. Sales guy optional... Check us out at www.absolutetech.com

Specialize in designing and building systems for digital media and other difficult technologies... Digital media and databases are the most difficult because the files are huge and they are both storage and cpu intensive. Dealing well with these type of challenges translates to other industries well because everybody wants the fastest, leanest, and meanest infrastructure! : )

We do crazy things like migrate 24TB of live production data with no downtime.

We also do datacenter consolidation. This means moving 3,4,5 racks of servers onto 3 well tuned servers, for example. Huge ROI for customer, lower power, cooling and maintenance costs, simpler to maintain. Performs well. Makes offsite replication, disaster recovery easy and possible. If a datacenter consolidation project can pay for itself in 9 months, then it's worth considering don't you think? The magic of VMware and intelligent storage my friends. The peanut butter and chocolate of technology today.

To network with folks who are tapped into the local Seattle media production and advertising market. We have an interesting niche here in the northwest. The political and economic landscapes are ripe for reviving both our film and comercial industry. I started NW Film Club 2 years ago in order to allow my passion for digital media to converge with my years of tech experience. Now, I'm building my line card of solid people and companies so I can always refer best in class to my customers. Post production companies for film and video have unique and challenging storage and infrastructure needs. The kind that get us excited...

UW, BA Communications (Specializing in new media)
UW, Filmmaking Certificate Program
fxphd.com, Postgrad
Certified Professional: VCP, Sun Certified Systems Administrator, Cisco Certified Network Associate, Network+, A+, MCSE

Almost 10 years of full time technology experience. See the following links for more info:
LinkedIn Profile
My Resume
My Company AbsoluteTech.com
I founded this users group NWFilmClub.com