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M&E Journal: Monetizing M&E Content with Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
NAB 2019: Western Digital’s Erik Weaver on Industry Adoption of Object Storage (SVG)
Video: Is the media and entertainment industry ready to make the full leap to object storage? As content storage needs explode, large media organizations will have to find new tech... More
NAB 2019: SHIFT Sees Uptake; Prime Focus Debuts Micro Services
LAS VEGAS — Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) used the NAB Show to debut a suite of AI-led micro services, all custom-made for media and entertainment enterprises. “Our AI-led ... More
NAB 2019: Wasabi Shares Cloud Storage Innovations; Avid Innovates for M&E; Western Digital Talks Object Storage
LAS VEGAS — Wasabi has set its sights on Asia for its next data center as part of the company’s planned international expansion, according to Whit Jackson, Wasabi’s VP of med... More
Why Media Workflows are Turning to Abstraction (Western Digital Blog)
Media workflows have become extremely complex due to the diversity of data and the abundance of storage mediums, locations and formats of today’s production pipelines. Here’s w... More
Why Fast Data Matters, and How to Get On Board (Western Digital Blog)
Speed is only one imperative in remaining relevant in the market. Once you build an infrastructure that enables data to move faster and more seamlessly, you also unlock the keys to... More
Western Digital, AMD Address Memory Scaling Demand for Fast-Growing In-Memory Computing Workloads (MESA)
Western Digital announced the latest memory extension solution with AMD to meet the need of a growing number of customers to scale addressable memory sizes of existing servers for ... More
What’s Hot at NAB 2019 (Western Digital Blog)
AI. This has been a buzz word for quite some time, but we are finally moving away from fantasy discussions about what AI is to looking at how it can affect different aspects of the... More
Rethinking Machine Learning at Scale (Western Digital Blog)
There is an immense amount of effort put into digitizing our world. More and more objects are given digital identities, connected to one another, made searchable, enable new patter... More
Western Digital Launches Low-Cost WD Blue NVMe SSDs (ExtremeTech)
Western Digital is launching a refresh for its WD Blue SSD product line, this time with a jump to NVMe. Where the current Blue SSD family is restricted to SATA interfaces, the new ... More
Top 8 Mobile Market, Technology Trends (Western Digital Blog)
The mobile market has seen an incredible trajectory. There are over 3 billion smartphone users across the globe, and although concerns of saturation, we’re short before the next ... More
An Insider’s View into the Future of Data Infrastructure (Western Digital Blog)
For the first time in history, AI can be realized in real-world use cases including manufacturing, security, farming, automotive, healthcare, education and businesses. The ability ... More
Western Digital, WekaIO Collaborate on NVMe Flash Platforms, Object Storage (HITS)
Data storage solutions provider Western Digital has partnered with and invested in scalable file storage firm WekaIO, with the intent of delivering scale-out architecture for data-... More
The Petabytes of Data Behind Montreux Jazz Festival’s Legacy (Western Digital Blog)
The variety of music is matched with the variety of ways the festival keeps in touch with their fans using resources like Montreux Jazz Live, Concert Database and the 50th edition ... More
Western Digital Unveils World’s Fastest 1TB UHS-I microSD Card (MESA)
As consumer demand for high-quality content continues to rise, Western Digital is enabling a bigger, faster experience with new solutions that give consumers the best combination o... More
5 Reasons Enterprises are Finding it Hard to Adopt AI (Western Digital Blog)
2018 may have been AI’s biggest year. Yet its application in real-world use cases are still very far. Why are companies and enterprises struggling to adopt AI? Western Digital as... More
Western Digital’s UFS 3.0 EFD Empowers 5G Mobility (MESA)
Western Digital is enriching smartphone users’ mobile experience in the 5G era with a new embedded flash drive (EFD) that provides the speed and capacity necessary to maximize th... More
Western Digital, Veeam Streamline Data Backup, Recovery for Scale-Out Hybrid Cloud Environments (HITS)
Western Digital has announced that its ActiveScale object storage system supports Veeam Cloud Tier, a feature of the new Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. The ActiveScale syst... More
5 Reasons Enterprises are Finding it Hard to Adopt AI (Western Digital Blog)
2018 may have been AI’s biggest year. Yet its application in real-world use cases are still very far. Why are companies and enterprises struggling to adopt AI? Western Digital as... More
5 Ways Leading CIOs are Deploying AI in 2019 (CIO)
Western Digital saves CapEx by using AI to optimize test equipment. One of the biggest expenses in hard drive manufacturing can be test equipment, so for Western Digital, optimizin... More