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Howdy from Texas: A Recap of Altitude 2017

BetterCloud

We filled the room with over 100 of the brightest minds in IT to explore the increased impact IT has on organizations, collaborate on technical strategies, and define today’s best practices. It was interactive and grounded in concrete IT processes, not theories, enabling attendees to refine their management and security strategies.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

While games are rendered in real-time on end-user devices based on input, VFX/animation shots are rendered offline in data centers and “pre-canned.” Around the same time that Unreal Engine (“UE”) was being developed, Pixar released RenderMan, which was the state of the art offline renderer for CGI/animation.