All posts by Jeff Berman

How Solstice Studios Saved $1.2M By Moving VFX to the Cloud With Arch

In even the best of times, finishing visual effects (VFX) for any movie is a challenge. COVID-19 only upped the challenge for Solstice Studios when it was looking to reap the marke... More

Nielsen CEO: Company’s Making ‘Good Progress’ on Gracenote Strategy

Nielsen is “making good progress” on its Gracenote Content Services strategy as publishers and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) “around the world recognize... More

‘Continued Rapid Growth’ of Akamai’s Security Business Gave it a Lift in Q1

Akamai reported strong results for its first quarter (ended March 31) that Tom Leighton, its CEO, said was “driven by the continued rapid growth of our security business, acceler... More

Digital Strength Provided Cognizant a Boost in Q1

Cognizant reported strong results for its first quarter (ended March 31) that were helped significantly by continued growth in its digital business. (more…)... More

Dolby CEO: Company Made Strides With Atmos, Vision, Dolby.io in Q2

Dolby continued to make strides with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Atmos Music, Dolby Vision and Dolby.io adoption in the second quarter (ended March 26), according to Kevin Yeaman, the compa... More

Cloud Computing Experts: Sector Needs New Talent

As cloud computing continues to grow, there is a significant shortage of talent in the sector. So those with an interest in the technology who are willing to learn should consider ... More

Cloud Computing Experts: Sector Needs New Talent

As cloud computing continues to grow, there is a significant shortage of talent in the sector. So those with an interest in the technology who are willing to learn should consider ... More

Amazon: ‘Accelerating’ AWS Growth Provided a Q1 Boost

Strong AWS results again helped Amazon report stronger results for the first quarter (ended March 31). AWS revenue grew to $13.5 billion in Q1 from $10.2 billion a year ago, whi... More

Arch: The Right Platform for Post and Virtual Production at the Right Time

When Arch Platform Technologies was founded five years ago, a growing number of film and TV production companies were starting to move to the cloud, but few would have predicted th... More

How FlickShow Makes it Easier to Register Content on Universal AV Databases

EIDR universal IDs are becoming mandatory for some content buyers before they agree to purchase a movie or TV show, and they will often use the various universal audiovisual databa... More

Strong Azure Performance Lifted Microsoft’s Q3 Results

Strong performance in Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business again provided a boost for the company’s results in the third quarter (ended March 31) as a 50% increase in Azure r... More

New Experience Cloud Enhancements Highlighted at Adobe Summit

Adobe used its online Adobe Summit opening keynote on April 27 to introduce new and enhanced features across Adobe Experience Cloud, unveiling new enterprise applications with Adob... More

Tamr Touts the Benefits of Data Mastering at Scale

While traditional data mastering works just fine for small, simple problems, a new approach was needed for larger, more complex projects, according to software company Tamr. As ... More

EIDR Turned to Reshuffle for New Open Source API Proxy

The new EIDR API Proxy was built on the framework of Reshuffle’s integration platform for developers that provides capabilities and applications that go well beyond EIDR’s curr... More

RISE Launch Gave SAP a Lift in Q1

Strong cloud demand again provided SAP with a lift in its first quarter (ended March 31), this time given an additional boost by the promising start for its RISE with SAP comprehen... More

How Premiere Digital and EIDR Make Deduplication Easier

Premiere Digital Services (PDS) supports EIDR in a key technical role: the deduplication process, according to Robert Grayson, EIDR support manager at PDS. "We work with EIDR to... More

Verizon Reports Strong Q1 Results and Doubles Down on 5G

Verizon reported strong results for the first quarter (ended March 31) as it achieved revenue growth across its three business segments and accelerated 5G growth through multiple i... More

EIDR and DDEX Tout the Benefits of Venue ID

The movie, TV and music industries all need to identify venues where content is created and where content is used. To help achieve that for the music industry, EIDR has teamed up w... More

Netflix’s Hastings: No Major Impact From Increased Competition in Q1

The increased number of rivals that Netflix is seeing enter the streaming video arena didn’t play a significant role in the company not achieving its subscriber growth expectatio... More