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DXC Technology: Hybrid Cloud’s Among the ‘Essentials’ for Enterprise Top-Line Growth Today
Transforming to a digital enterprise and making use of hybrid cloud services are among the “essentials” that “contribute to top-line growth and cost-based improvements, as we... More
Technicolor Debuts Massive Mars VR Initiative
LOS ANGELES. — In what may be the most ambitious virtual reality project to date, Technicolor, HP and others have partnered to put together a vision of a viable, sustainable habi... More
TiVo: Price, Use of Internet Services Top Cord-Cutter List
Nearly 85% of those surveyed in TiVo’s latest quarterly Video Trends Report have a pay TV service, with 37% spending at least $101 a month (and some spending as much as $150 or m... More
M&E Journal: Q&A: Entertainment Localization Technologies
By Scott Rose, CTO, SDI Media Group - From the outside looking in, the tasks for localizing premium content (series and movies) are fairly simple. For subtitling, you translate... More
Tata Communications, Alibaba Partner on Enterprise Cloud Solution
Tata Communications has been tapped by Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of China’s Alibaba Group, to provide more reliable, scalable and secure cloud services, the com... More
Cisco: Number of Major Global DDoS Attacks to Soar By 2021
The number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks larger than 1 Gbps will soar from 1.3 million in 2016 to 3.1 million by 2021, Cisco projected June 8 as part of the Cisco... More
VR to Again Feature Prominently at E3
Virtual reality (VR) will be playing a major role again at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) June 13-15 in Los Angeles. All the major VR hardware players will be on ... More
M&E Journal: 2017: The Year of Quality VR
By Ramón Bretón, CTO, 3rd i QC - The current wave of virtual reality began in August of 2012, when Oculus launched a Kickstarter campaign for its first Rift headset, the PC-ba... More
PwC Forecast: AI, VR Hold Promise for M&E Companies
While projecting that global entertainment and media (E&M) revenue will grow to $2.2 trillion in 2021 from $1.8 trillion in 2016, PwC cautioned in a new report that companies n... More
M&E Journal: The Tao of Zero
By Joel de la Garza, Chief Security Officer, Box - As more enterprises move critical services to the cloud, the traditional security model starts to break down. As a company, Bo... More
MESA’s Spring ‘M&E Journal’ Goes Live
The spring edition of the “M&E Journal,” published by the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA), and geared toward senior media and entertainment executives who overse... More
MESA Announces First Media & Entertainment Day, July 25 at Microsoft Technology Center in New York City
NEW YORK — The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) has announced the inaugural Media & Entertainment Day for Tuesday, July 25th at the Microsoft Technology Center on E... More
HITS: Spring 2017: MediaSilo, Expert System, Rogers Media, Sony DADC Tout Ways to Improve Workflows
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Screener web sites have become a staple in Hollywood, but – all too often – TV show and movie reviewers who use these sites have an absolutely misera... More
Robert Half: Staffing and Adapting for Decades
First founded in 1948, Robert Half is named after its founder and CEO. And in the nearly 70 years since, the company has had only one other CEO, current head Max Messmer. It’s... More
HITS: Spring 2017: Asset Protection, Streamlining the Value Chain Take Center Stage
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — The day before New Regency’s Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Revenant” hit theaters in 2015, the actor who did the stunt work as the bear in arguably t... More
Former U.S. Fed CIO: ‘Don’t Waste a (Cybersecurity) Crisis’
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — When Tony Scott, former CIO for both Microsoft and The Walt Disney Co., was asked to take on the same role for the federal government — toward the tail... More
HITS: Spring 2017: Entertainment Partners Talks Security, TiVo Looks at Metadata, AI
The CISO from Entertainment Partners will share the latest tools available to secure the production office while TiVo will bring an expert on using machine learning, metadata and a... More
Pivotal: Changing the Mindset on Building Software
Think of having a new business idea in the morning, building the software to handle that product during lunch, and launching the new business before everyone clocks out for the day... More
M&E Journal: Delivering A Showcase Entertainment Experience To Employees And Partners
Chuck Fontana, Okta - When we talk about innovation in M&E, it’s easy to focus on advancements in filmmaking technology and the home entertainment space. The strides the indu... More
HITS: Spring 2017: Mediamorph CEO, AWS Exec to Examine VOD, AI
The CEO of Mediamorph will share ideas for streamlining the content value chain, an artificial intelligence (AI) expert for Amazon Web Services will look at how AI is impacting med... More