The COVID-19 pandemic is putting pressure on society in innumerable ways, ranging from first responders, to hospital facilities and government agencies, to families and individuals “sheltering in place.” Streaming service providers have experienced a surge in new customer sign-ups combined with extended viewing throughout daytime and evenings. Netflix added 15.8 million subscribers, more than double the 7.2 million that were expected, during Q1 2020. As state policies were put in place, research conducted by Fastly revealed a substantial increase in traffic load in several industry verticals including, digital publishing, social media, GIFs, gaming, education, and streaming. For streaming services specifically, between February and March there was an observed increase of 29.6% in average requests per second.

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For the first time, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has honored Dell Technologies with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its Dell EMC Isilon data storage array, specifically recognizing the company for its early development of hierarchical storage management systems. Since 2003, over 2000 global organizations, including broadcasters, post and VFX houses across 82 countries have invested in Dell EMC Isilon’s scale-out architecture to drive innovation in media workflows. In the last three years, Dell EMC media and entertainment customers have used over 1.5 exabytes of Isilon storage in the past three years alone. Customers include Lightstorm Entertainment (the production house behind James Cameron’s Avatar), NBC Sports Group, and Important Looking Pirates. Dell Technologies will be accepting this award at the 2020 NAB Show in Las Vegas in April. You can read more about the news in this blog by Tom Burns, Dell EMC’s CTO of Media & Entertainment.

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