Talk-Cloud, an e-Learning platform used by universities and other online education providers, was experiencing expo-nential growth and needed rapid deployment of new network nodes to maintain customer satisfaction. The heart of their platform is two-way livestreaming, an application extremely sensitive to latency issues and network instability. By using Zenlayer Bare Metal Cloud and Edge Data Center Services for their network needs, Talk-Cloud was able to increase coverage by 40% while reducing latency by 5% and costs by 20%.
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There’s not much I can say about 2020 you either haven’t already heard or experienced. However, we can’t start looking ahead to 2021 without first acknowledging how the COVID pandemic fundamentally (and permanently?) altered the broadcast and production worlds. When the live events, sports and production communities shut down, professionals in these industries got creative and ultimately managed to make something out of what seemed like a totally bleak situation.
We all learned to redefine innovation, speed, agility and flexibility. Many of the new practices we were forced to adopt out of necessity became a reality seemingly overnight, as the typical rate of industry change was compressed from years into months.
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Despite a global pandemic and social turmoil, there were some positive shifts in our world that were facilitated by technology. The ability to order just about anything online and to virtually meet with medical professionals, family, friends, and teachers as well as colleagues and peers, and an inexhaustible amount of content with which to entertain ourselves stood out as capabilities not possible even a decade ago. So with that in mind, let’s take a closer look at what we like to call the 3 Cs (content, cloud and collaboration) and our predictions for 2021.
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The Store segment of the BaM Content Chain® covers the storage of content throughout its lifecycle. This can be on-premise or cloud object storage, SAN and NAS – including disk, SSD, optical and data tape, as well as storage management, archive storage, video servers and VTRs.
With an ever-growing amount of content needing to be stored and then rapidly accessed from anywhere, with ever-higher resolutions only increasing the pressure, Store today means much more than the simple repository its name implies. We spoke to 10 IABM member companies to catch up on all the latest developments in this largely unheralded but vital content chain segment.
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The need for effective corporate communication is growing as workplaces expand and become more dispersed. Corporate video production has become mainstream for today’s employee education, training, corporate communication, marketing, and advertising, helping to improve overall communications and reduce costs. As larger amounts of high-quality video content is produced, stored, and managed by modern enterprises, corporate media professionals are seeking many of the same high performance file storage solutions used by large film studios and media production companies to render, edit, and archive their video workflows.
Qumulo’s file data platform meets the needs for today’s corporate video content production and storage on-prem or in cloud environments; providing a modern infrastructure employing flash-first or all-NVMe platforms which can handle the toughest 4K or 8K workloads. The file system’s simple modular design enables limitless scalability to manage ever-growing capacities and retention requirements. Qumulo provides multiprotocol support for NFS and SMB to seamlessly integrate with existing enterprise networks and video editing applications. Qumulo enables organizations to build and enhance multi-site collaboration with unified data accessibility. With Qumulo, organizations can transition to hybrid cloud environments, or burst existing workflows to the cloud to accelerate productivity, when needed. In addition, Qumulo provides robust data protection, with the economics of archive storage, to protect valuable digital content.
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Qumulo’s hybrid file software and cloud data services provide a modern infrastructure for data-driven media and entertainment organizations, and meets the needs of today’s in-house and remote creative teams for post-production, animation and visual effects, games production, broadcast, and corporate video production.
Qumulo’s file system provides reliable, high-performance data access to speed creativity and collaboration, as well as robust management, storage and protection for petabyte levels of HD, 4K and 8K content across on-prem, and public cloud environments. Qumulo’s file system is designed to provide support and visibility for billions of files, with easy scalability to enable rapid growth and expansion.
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In this webinar, we explore the most important findings of the recently published Adapt for Change Report, including BaM Content Chain Maturity™, the supply-side implications of the move to as-a-service models and the growing cloud ecosystem.
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