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SlideShare: Preserve, Distribute and Deliver – M&E’s Three Biggest Data Challenges

The world of Media and Entertainment (M&E) is constantly changing and those changes impact M&E IT. The challenges M&E IT professionals face are far greater than the obvious problem of increasing data and file size. Certainly, building storage infrastructures designed

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ChalkTalk Video: Proprietary Storage vs. Open Storage

It used to be very difficult for an organization to manage, scale and maximize the performance of its storage infrastructure. It made sense to partner with a vendor that provided a proprietary storage solution where software and hardware were tightly

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Storage Lessons that IT can learn from Media and Entertainment

The demands of the modern Media and Entertainment (M&E) organization is pushing storage infrastructure to the breaking point. M&E generates more data, requires faster processing, faster delivery of that data and has, by far, the most justifiable means for retaining

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Should M&E use Object Storage or Amazon S3/Glacier?

IT professionals in the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry have to deal with explosive data growth and record setting retention strategies. But even if you’re not in M&E, your industry could face similar challenges in the next few years. To

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StorageShort: M&E – Content Distribution, Performance vs. Cost

One of the challenges facing Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies today is content distribution. No longer are users starting at their televisions screens waiting for content to come to them. They want access to the content when they want to

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Overcoming the M&E Data Delivery Challenge

IT professionals who work for Media and Entertainment (M&E) organizations face a myriad of new challenges such as dealing with the data capacity demands of higher and higher resolution cameras and preserving that data for decades. While these challenges are

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Webinar: Preserve, Distribute and Deliver – M&E’s Three Biggest Data Challenges

The world of Media and Entertainment (M&E) is constantly changing and those changes impact M&E IT. The challenges M&E IT professionals face are far greater than the obvious problem of increasing data and file size. Certainly, building storage infrastructures designed

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NAB Vendors Discover Data Protection

I was pleasantly surprised when I visited storage vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, suffice it to say that it is massive. It is Las Vegas’ second largest

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Real-Time Video Data – Competitive Advantage or Budget Sinkhole?

One of the fastest growing data types is video data and organizations of all kinds and sizes are having to deal with it. These organizations are not the traditional media and entertainment companies; now sports teams, public entities, mega-churches and

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