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Caringo Offers 100 TB Swarm Object Storage License to M&E Firms
Scale-out cloud and object storage platform firm Caringo Aug. 29 announced it’s begun offering a fully featured, 100 TB license of its Swarm object storage system to media and en... More
IBM: To Improve Network Security Efforts, We Can Learn a Lot from Ants
When it comes to network security areas including data and identity management, humans can learn a lot from insects – especially leafcutter ants, according to IBM Security associ... More
SDI Media Names Simms CIO
Content services provider SDI Media has added former Condé Nast International CTO Natalie Simms as its new CIO, giving the long-time industry vet oversight of SDI’s global IT fu... More
Irdeto: Adapting to Changing Content Security Needs
Founded in 1969, Netherlands-based security firm Irdeto is coming up on its 50th anniversary, and the company’s longevity can be tied to adapting to the changing needs of its cli... More
IBM Picks Up New Blockchain Partners
IBM has scored another major win on the blockchain front, this time in the food sector, saying Aug. 22 that it teamed up with companies including Dole, Kroger, Nestle, Tyson Foods,... More
Cisco CEO: Strong Demand for New AI-Based Networking System Products
Cisco has seen strong customer demand for its new artificial intelligence (AI)-based networking solution products since introducing them in June, according to CEO Chuck Robbins. ... More
Avid CFO: Company’s Long ‘Transformation’ Completed on Time
Avid Technology recently completed the “transformation” of its business that started four years ago and the company is now well-positioned for future growth, according to CFO B... More
Content Protection, Metadata and More: An M&E Entertainment Day Wrap
More than 300 people were on hand July 25 at the inaugural Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day event in New York City, attending four tracks of programming catering to represen... More
M&E Journal: With Microservices, Anything is Possible
By John Motz, CTO, GrayMeta - First conceived in May of 2011, the concept of microservices isn’t new. Microservices is the idea of narrowly focusing on a single task and is h... More
Microsoft, M&E Execs: Cloud, Collaboration are Keys to Solve Security, Other Challenges
Transitioning to the cloud and increased collaboration are among the keys for media and entertainment companies to solve the security and many other challenges they are increasingl... More
Azure Media Exec: AI is Making Content Better
Martin Wahl, principal program manager for Azure Media Services, was a big fan of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books growing up. And today, he’s seeing something sim... More
CNBC, Viacom Increasingly Look Toward Metadata
Jeff Jacobs, SVP of production planning, strategies and operations for Viacom Media Networks Music and Entertainment Group, spent a good chunk of his dozen-plus years with Viacom w... More
M&E Journal: Hybrid Cloud: When On-Premise is Simply Not Good Enough
By Ramki Sankaranarayanan, Founder & CEO, Prime Focus Technologies - The internet has completely transformed the way organizations across the globe function, and its evoluti... More
Avid Technology: Helping Content Companies Tell Stories
From its start as the first digital nonlinear editing system in the late 1980s to its work with every major studio and the world’s top broadcasters today, Avid has seen its techn... More
IBM Security Introduces New X-Force Red Services for IoT, Auto Industry
IBM Security is offering new X-Force Red security testing practice areas that are focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and automotive security sectors, the IBM division said Jul... More
Box Exec: Leveraging the ‘Big 3’ of Information Governance Reduces Business Risk
Now that employees are accessing content from all kinds of devices and across many different locations, information governance (IG) has become more important than ever. Therefore, ... More
Bebop Technology Launches in Australia, New Zealand
Cloud solutions provider Bebop Technology has brought its cloud-based post-production platform to both Australia and New Zealand, the company announced, thanks to a sales alliance ... More
Ooyala to Share AI, Metadata Insights at MESA’s Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day
Execs from online video tech company Ooyala will be on hand July 25 at the inaugural Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day, at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) on Eighth Avenue ... More
M&E Journal: Disrupting the Media Services Industry
By Robert Gekchyan, CEO and Founder, ANG Digital - It seems business journals can’t stop writing about the on-demand economy—the business-to-consumer industries that have b... More
Aspera Exec: Package Editing Among Latest Features Added to Aspera Files
Package editing is one of several new features recently added to the Aspera Files Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, with more new features coming soon, James Wilson, Aspera di... More
