The pixitmedia Lab

Change can be disruptive and resource-limiting. That’s why we’ve created a space where our customers can experience the ultimate flexibility of our solutions at our dedicated facility, The Lab. The pixitmedia Lab at our UK headquarters – close to Heathrow airport and with easy access to central London – showcases the ins and outs of the complete pixstor ecosystem, and cutting-edge integration where you can test, collaborate and train with us first-hand in a real-world production environment.

Vine FX on the Perfect Partners

Michael Illingworth from Vine FX explains the storage system they use for their creative studio, which combines Dell EMC solutions with pixstor, and how this system, along with their support from Escape Technology, allows them to efficiently and effectively complete projects.

pixitmedia Technical Solutions

Technical Solution Document from pixitmedia

NVMe-oF: The New Frontier for On-set Production

This whitepaper will explore the ‘why’ behind this trust, and how the introduction of new technologies, such as NVMe over Fabrics or NVMe-oF, can help us understand how we can challenge this assumption in an informed and meaningful way.

Creativity Can’t Take Place in Silos

This whitepaper will explore the current status-quo for production houses, the ‘why’ behind the industry trust in SANs, and how moving to technologies, such as NAS, can liberate data and media workflows.

You won’t Get SAN in the Cloud

This whitepaper explores the many moving parts within the modern production environment for creative agencies and how NAS technology, combined with DIT tools, will be the next step to scaling users and processes into operating on a facility-wide shared storage.

In Conversation with Prime Focus Technologies

In this IABM TV interview, we caught up with Nick Kaimakami, EVP and Head – EMEA and USA East at Prime Focus Technologies to hear more about their new hybrid cloud media center in Leeds and why they chose to locate it in Leeds. Nick also outlines and elaborates their Content Supply Chain offerings.

Automating the production pipeline – 5 major decision drivers

Content production is one of the most labor intensive exercises in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. As a result, it takes up a lion’s share of the budget too. And that is not just because of the number of people involved but inefficiencies run across production planning, time and resource management, use of technology and content logistics (storage, transfer, review). Since the outcome is what we call the IP that is monetizable, security also becomes paramount as the threat of piracy never subsides.

The changing face of video consumption

In the days, not so long ago, when terrestrial television was pretty much the only game in town, technology limited us to just a handful of channels. That was eased by the first cable systems which could deliver a few more, but in many territories, cable was available to only a small part of the population so there was no commercial market for more channels.

Remote Access to Shared Storage: VPN vs. Remote Desktop

There have been a lot of changes to production workflows since 2020. Creative teams had to adjust to working from home, and in many cases this was done by spinning up (sometimes hastily) remote desktop utilities or a VPN server with little time for due diligence on how it would affect the team’s workflow.

The pixitmedia Lab