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Signiant’s Jon Finegold on Moving to the Cloud For Remote Media Collaboration (SVG)

Signiant’s unique SaaS platform has transformed the way media companies work. By leveraging the cloud as a common control plane layer to orchestrate fast, secure access to media ... More

Amazon Launches Its First African AWS Datacenters as Demand for Cloud Services Surges (VentureBeat)

Amazon has officially opened its first datacenters in Africa, with its Amazon Web Services cloud division launching three new availability zones in Cape Town, South Africa. While A... More

FBI Sees Cybercrime Reports Increase Fourfold During COVID-19 Outbreak (Engadget)

Instances of cybercrime appear to have jumped by as much as 300 percent since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the FBI. The bureau’s Internet Crime Complai... More

A&M Releases Coronavirus Cash-Flow Management Guide for CFOs (Consultancy)

Alvarez & Marsal has released a response guide for chief financial officers to keep on top of cash flow during the coronavirus crisis. “The CFO’s primary job in this environmen... More

AWS, Facebook Launch an Open-Source Model Server for PyTorch (TechCrunch)

AWS and Facebook announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. The first of these is TorchServe, a model-serving framew... More

Alibaba Cloud Will Invest $28B More Into its Infrastructure Over the Next Three Years (TechCrunch)

Alibaba Cloud announced that it will invest another $28 billion into its infrastructure over the next three years, prompted in part by increased demand for services like video conf... More

Synamedia Appoints Nick Thexton as CTO (MESA)

Synamedia announced that it has appointed digital TV software pioneer Nick Thexton as Chief Technology Officer. Nick will drive Synamedia’s ambitious agenda of technology innovat... More

These 25 Technology Trends Will Define the Next Decade (Forbes)

We may not be living on Mars or traveling to work using jet packs, but there's no doubt the coming decade will bring many exciting technological advances.... More

SAP Makes Support Experience Even Smarter With Machine Learning, AI Enhancements (MESA)

SAP announced several updates, including the Schedule a Manager and Ask an Expert Peer services, to its Next-Generation Support approach focused on the customer support experience ... More

Residential Internet Connections are Now Business Connections: What About Security, Compliance? (Akamai Blog)

Near-global mandates to stay at home have completely reshaped the internet security landscape. Remote work is the new normal, inverting the traditional office model. Attackers are... More

EditShare, CIS Group Strengthen Partnership to Drive Business in Eastern U.S., Brazil (MESA)

EditShare announced that CIS Group has joined the EditShare Channel Partner Program. In addition to leveraging EditShare’s software defined storage, asset management and cloud so... More

Resolving Digital Congestion Amid the Coronavirus Crisis (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

With millions working remotely, digital congestion has replaced physical traffic jams. Here's how we can all take part in freeing up bandwidth.... More

SAP on Keeping the Customer Experience Smooth During a Time of Chaos (AdExchanger)

For many SAP clients, including retailers, fashion brands and CPG companies, WFH has caused upheaval for their business. In mid-March, SAP launched a “Remote Readiness and Produc... More

Theater Owners Caution Studios Over Shorter Release Windows (Variety)

The National Association of Theatre Owners has cautioned studios against shortening the movie release window, pointing to a study showing reduced potential revenues for the studios... More

OWNZONES Supports Content Creators Through COVID-19 Crisis (MESA)

Cloud-based video supply chain company OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies is helping studios and post houses around the world respond rapidly to the growing global consumption of ... More

Object Matrix, Signiant Integrate Solutions to Deliver Content Anywhere (MESA)

Object Matrix and Signiant have announced improved workflow compatibility between MatrixStore, the award-winning object storage solution and Signiant Media Shuttle, the de facto in... More

Iyuno Media Group COVID-19 Update (MESA)

We are in unprecedented times. With the ongoing spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the incredible speed at which things are changing around us, we continue to adapt. (more&he... More

Verizon Media Donates $10M in Ad Credits for COVID-19 Efforts, Focusing on Mental-Health Groups (Variety)

Verizon Media is giving away $10 million in digital ad inventory to groups responding to the COVID-19 crisis, with a focus on mental health. The donation is earmarked for five ment... More

The Age of Digital Nomads: Remote Work is Here to Stay – So How Do We Embrace It? (Forbes)

In today’s climate of COVID-19 forcing so many to rip the proverbial Band Aid off and embrace working from home, how do you set yourself and your team up to embrace it as a prima... More

NAB Show Reveals Plans for NAB Show Express (MESA)

NAB Show’s new digital experience, NAB Show Express, will take place May 13 - 14, 2020. The dynamic platform is free and designed to engage the NAB Show community by offering 24-... More

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