Technology
Pixit Media opens new UK testing facility
Allows customers to experience Pixit Media’s storage and data management solutions for broadcast, media production, post production and VFX
storage
Technology
Aardman invests in GB Labs’ storage
Purchase gives Aardman increased storage capacity from 150TB to 250TB
Features
Monetising content with advanced MAM and storage
By Dave Colantuoni, senior director of product management, Avid
Technology
Object Matrix and Empress partner on cloud hybrid MAM and storage solution
Integrated solution combines Empress’s eMAM system and Matrix Store’s hybrid cloud object storage technology
Technology
Spectra Logic announces world’s largest data storage machine
TFinity ExaScale Tape Library is able to protect more than 2,000 petabytes of digital assets
Technology
Ooyala leverages Google Cloud technologies
Ooyala Media Flex Platform will now run on Google Cloud
Features
Putting data in the right place at the right time
Jason Coari, director, Scale-out Storage Solutions at Quantum, on how post production workflow optimisation can help power successful collaboration
Technology
BFI preserves film history with Spectra Logic
Organisation is employing solution for digital archiving and long-term storage
News Release
EditShare introduces re-engineered Flow model
EditShare will showcase its new Flow software-defined media asset...
Production & Post
Windmill Lane post facility picks EditShare storage solution
Facility is using XStream EFS scale out shared storage, EFS near-line and Flow media asset management
Features
How Technicolor achieves ‘Any-K’ video storage with Excelero
"What we wanted to do was to build a file system that would support any resolution at any number of streams"
Production & Post
BBC selects Dropbox as storage and collaboration platform
Platform will be used across the entire BBC workforce
Features
2018 storage strategies: Five trends to watch
Matt Starr, CTO, Spectra Logic, looks forward to some of the key trends likely to affect the media and entertainment industries in 2018
Features
Preparing for a future of cloud-based storage
Cloud-based storage will continue to gain momentum as the media industry looks toward efficient, reliable, and scalable cloud-powered workflows, says Aspera’s VP marketing, Richard Heitmann
Analysis
TVBEurope roundtable: storage matters
TVBEurope hosted its latest industry roundtable last week at London's Soho Hotel. Held in association with Quantum, the afternoon's theme was storage for the broadcast industry
IBC
GB Labs to launch Hybrid shared storage range at IBC2016
GB Labs will be launching Fast NAS, a new shared storage range which combines the benefits of HDD and SSD in one box
Technology
Case study: Archiving the blockbusters at Deluxe
With a need for more storage, and not much space, Deluxe Digital Cinema EMEA looked to Spectra Logic to archive its feature film content. Deluxe production systems engineer Chris Green tells us how they did it.
Technology
Strictly Come Storage: How Object Matrix helped deliver the BBC’s flagship danceoff
BBC Studios & Post Production upgraded to a seven node, 210 terabyte Matrixstore when Strictly went HD in 2010
Production & Post
NASA selects Quantum for Kennedy Space Center
NASA has chosen Quantum’s StorNext as the foundation for its new content management and storage system at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Features
Content storage and delivery: Solving infrastructure issues
Unlike standard enterprises, whether you are providing hybrid storage solutions or distributing applications, videos, or images, or creating a networked DVR infrastructure to
Production & Post
Terrablock rocks TV3’s new soap
Facilis has installed its TerraBlock 24D | 48TB shared storage system in a new production facility in Dublin, Ireland. The facility has been designed and built to produce Ireland’s new soap series, Red Rock, which is co-produced by Element Pictures & Company Pictures and broadcast across Ireland by TV3.
News Release
Nexus selects Pixstor storage solution for evolving production workflow
Shoreditch-based production company and animation studio Nexus has extended its technical capabilities with an investment in Pixit Media’s PixStor software-defined scale-out storage platform. The system was purchased through specialist CG and VFX reseller Escape Technology.
Business
Quantum grows scale-out storage revenue despite weak market
Quantum Corp has reported its results for the fiscal first quarter 2016, ended June 30 2015
News Release
Metus INGEST now integrated with FileCatalyst
Metus has announced the integration of its media workflow system with FileCatalyst Direct, an accelerated file transfer solution, created by Ottawa, Canada based Unlimi-Tech Software Inc.
Production & Post
Nativ partners with Quantum on workflow offering
Nativ has partnered with Quantum enabling the integration of Nativ’s MioEverywhere media logistics product with Quantum’s StorNext 5 shared storage and workflow platform.
Analysis
NewBay Connect: Forbidden Technologies
‘For many years, the pace of change in mass market IT has dwarfed that of broadcast technology’, writes Stephen Streater, CEO of Forbidden Technologies.
Production & Post
Suite TV chooses ISIS
Post production house Suite TV will be the first in the UK to order Avid’s ISIS 2500 high-performance nearline storage
Features
Taking a Quantum leap
Melanie Dayasena-Lowe met with Geoff Stedman to find out how his experience in start-ups and the storage business has helped him to steer the company’s goals.
Production & Post
Sony launches Media Lifecycle Service
Sony has launched MLS, to help content owners protect and maximise the value of their legacy content assets