A cool feature of the IABM Technology and Trends Roadmap is that at a high level it gives us a visual overview of the anomalies and irregularities within our industry that directly affect growth and profitability. Our panel will examine these conflicts and how they affect business and risk. Part 1 will take on the three areas of: Distributed Infrastructure (Home Studios, Backhaul, Workstations, Cloud Production Switching), Compute and Storage (GPU, CPU, FPGAs, NVME, PCIe, SSD), along with Security.
Content Chain Trends: Content Infrastructure & Storage
Our latest Content Chain Trends Report: Content Infrastructure & Storage discusses major macro business and tech trends, as well as their effects on products and services in Connect & Store. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of cloud technology, enabling decentralized remote production, and pushed media businesses to invest more in IP connectivity. This report also analyzes the growing popularity of interactive and immersive experiences driving investment in cloud computing, as well as 5G to achieve low latency. Highlights of this report: The pandemic has accelerated the move to remote production, changing the architecture of the production model from centralized to decentralized. The decentralization of resources and shift to remote production increased investment in cloud and IP-based workflows, enabling shared access and collaboration. The pandemic has also accelerated the move to the direct-to-consumer business model, causing a decline in satellite revenues. The move to direct-to-consumer is driving the demand for interactivity and immersive experiences. The growth of streaming audiences is increasing latency, thus shifting the investment focus of media companies to low-latency technologies, such as edge computing via cloud and 5G. View the interactive report below, or click here to access the PDF version.
What Can Newsrooms Gain from the Cloud?
Today’s newsrooms are facing unprecedented challenges. While newsroom workflows are always in a state of flux, competing to adapt to new and emerging technology and storytelling practices, the COVID-19 pandemic took one aspect of the evolution in an unexpected direction. Faced with social distancing mandates, many newsrooms instructed staff to work from home.
Media Tech Intelligence Briefing: Live Sports
As the M&E industry moves to DTC, live sports audience is moving to streaming platforms, forcing media companies to make strategic technology investments and streamline linear to support digital. The demand for ancillary content is leading media companies to create new types of sports content to engage with their customers. The demand for interactivity shifts the focus of M&E businesses to gaming, betting, and other interactive experiences to generate new revenue streams, driving investment in data analytics and better user experience.
MediaTech Radar: NAB Show 2022 Trends
MediaTech Radar is a bi-weekly newsletter put together by IABM’s Head of Knowledge Lorenzo Zanni. It focuses on a spotlight topic in MediaTech and reflects on a series of past, present, and future business developments in the industry. In this edition, our spotlight topic is NAB Show 2022 Trends.
Pixel perfect – How hybrid cloud-based workflows kept Taylor James creative and competitive
Taylor James is a full-service, integrated production studio, from concept to completion, across every media channel. Based in London, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico and Buenos Aires, they specialize in translating creative ideas into high-quality content through concept design, CGI, 2D and 3D animation, live-action, photography, VFX, and post-production.
Secure OTT streaming with cloud-based multi-DRM – Solution Brief
The new AWS-Intertrust solution brief describes how ExpressPlay DRM leverages the Secure Packager and Encoder Key Exchange (SPEKE) v2.0 API that defines the standard for encrypted communication between encoders, origin servers, and DRM systems.
Woody Technologies Case Study – Eurosport
Supporting Discovery Sports to prepare its technical infrastructure for the Olympic Games
farmerswife Case Study: ENEX
Having used a complex Satellite Bookings Scheduling system for nearly 20 years, we needed to get away from it as it is heavily dependent on ageing on premise server hardware turning into a roadblock and maintenance headache regarding the transformation of our workflows towards a cloud based server-less infrastructure and the goal to outsource hosting and support to the platform providers.
Ngenea tech sheet
ngenea with pixstor facilitates distributed collaborative workflows, giving your teams access to the data they need, wherever it is stored, creating a global data management solution that goes beyond the cloud.