John O’Loan is CEO at iOMedia Group LNS. After launching Sky News, he assisted in the launch and operations of more than 40 other news, sport and documentary channels around the world. He holds an Executive Masters Degree in Culture Change at HEC Paris and The University of Oxford. In this article, he discusses how companies can best protect themselves from cyber threats.
Mitigating the effects of ransomware on television post-production
Unlike a car crash, a ransomware attack is most likely uninsurable. So, the effects on a major media enterprise, production company or post facility can be totally devastating. Here’s why we should all be concerned, however big or small an organisation.
IP KVM in media and broadcast
This is the age of multi-tasking and multi-production. Behind the scenes of every news, sport and live broadcast channel is a team of people who make the content come to life, and here in 2022, almost every aspect is driven by computer technology. These live production environments rely on multi-server, multi-PC and multimonitor infrastructure, where people take control through our default peripherals; the keyboard and mouse.
Kairos Infinity Event
The KAIROS Infinity Event is more than just product news and developments! We bring together leading broadcasters and production companies to discuss their success in adopting KAIROS IT/IP platfrom to their business model & production needs, key industry trends and future outlook.
Metadata-Driven Production
In the right hands, metadata is the essence that can drive articulate orchestration of content production workflows inter- and intra-organisation. It enables nuanced decision making leading to the right data, in the right place at precisely the right time.
Virtual Production and the Future of Broadcast
As film and television projects continue to integrate virtual production into their creative process to unlock new worlds and visuals, broadcast has begun to take note and adopt this new technology in their workflows as well. Join ErinRose Widner from Verizon and Addy Ghani from Disguise as they discuss how broadcast is leveraging virtual production in their workflows and how 5G/MEC is becoming a game changer in this production evolution.
A New Era of Filmmaking
Virtual production is a playground of technology where exploring stories expands creative possibilities while focussing efforts and streamlining shot preparation before principal photography. Both fully animated and live action projects can adopt real-time workflows that includes location scouting and all forms of visualization such as previz, techviz and stuntviz. Virtual Production can save time and unite teams. It is the future of filmmaking.
Woody Technologies Case Study – Eurosport
Supporting Discovery Sports to prepare its technical infrastructure for the Olympic Games
MediaTech Radar – Content Creation and Production
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 Content Creation and Production.
Passion Pictures scales intelligently into the cloud to manage data on a job-by-job basis
Lockdown drove demand in Cloud-working and high-end animation. For creative production group, Passion Pictures, keeping up with the pace of this growth meant more teams collaborating using Cloud-based services as opposed to using their on-premise facilities.