For those in the media and entertainment industry tasked to work with and produce content at such high fidelity, it is increasingly apparent that new technologies must be leveraged to support these workflows. One such example is increasing efficiency by handling this content with advanced asset management tools – many of which now deploy AI algorithms to help users find […]

New technologies for producing stunning visual content are opening tremendous opportunities for studios, post-production houses, distributors and other media organizations. Sophisticated next-generation cameras and multi-camera arrays enable organizations to capture more visual information, in greater detail than ever before.

Over the past decade, enterprise-grade non-volatile “flash” storage has gone mainstream. While not exactly inexpensive, enterprise flash prices have finally dropped to the point that talk of the “all-flash data center” no longer generates quite as much eye-rolling as it once did. Spinning disk capacity is still relatively low-cost, but the technical barriers to greater HDD density and performance are […]

Media and entertainment organizations are increasingly adopting flash-based storage to gain the performance required for critical workflows. They see opportunities to accelerate ingest, transcoding, rendering, and playout while giving editors a more responsive experience for working with multiple streams of high-resolution content.