Storage

APB+

Imagine Communications offers high-availability storage solution

Imagine Communications is now offering Versio IOX Express NAS, a high-availability shared storage solution, which enables on-air scalability and pay-as-you-go expansion.

APB+

Veeam adds Google Cloud support with new backup solution

Veeam Software now supports all three major public cloud providers with the general availability of NEW Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, delivering a single platform to protect, secure and manage all applications and data: cloud-based, virtual and physical.

APB+

Thailand’s oldest institute taps Sony to modernise its archives

Institutes of learning, national broadcasters and production houses often face the major problem of how to modernise their archives to become flexible, intuitive and yet affordable.

Cloud

Redress your storage with hybrid cloud

Masstech will demonstrate FlashNet, its video-centric storage management solution that offers true flexibility of hybrid cloud with intelligence, content-aware workflows to power the next-generation of optimized tiered storage environments.

Management

Thai PBS upgrades infrastructure while on-air

Installing Imagine’s enhanced Nexio software while staying on-air has enabled the Thai broadcaster to deploy content “faster and easier” to meet its audience’s demand for news content.

PREVIEWS & REVIEWS

2019 NAB Show: R&S to highlight 5G broadcast via high-power, high-tower transmission

Rohde & Schwarz has been an active participant in the Bavarian research project ‘5G Today’, which investigates TV broadcast transmission in the Further-evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (FeMBMS) mode in a high-power, high-tower (HPHT) 5G broadcast field trial near Munich, Germany.

Management

iFit post-production workflow running in good shape

As a manufacturer of exercise equipment, Icon Health & Fitness has combined fitness and technology to create iFit, a video-based coaching platform that connects with the company’s machines and offers video content to bring personal trainers and varied fitness environments into customers’ homes.

Management

GB Labs fulfils Aardman’s storage demands

As the creators behind films like Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, Aardman, a British animation studio based in Bristol, needed to expand its existing storage solutions to manage higher levels of data.

Unlock your content value, with an Intelligence Archive leveraging AI

BY CHARLES SEVIOR “We don’t even know what we’ve got in our archive …” Comments such as this are all too common in the industry as media organisations have woken up to find their organically grown, sprawling content archives are missing a key ingredient: metadata.

Management

Switch TV goes live in HD

German systems integrator Broadcast Solutions designed and supplied equipment for Switch TV’s new HD TV station Located in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, Switch TV is a new HD TV station wholly-owned by the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS).

Management

Ross Video unveils EVO Signature Series storage solutions

The EVO Signature Series is designed and produced by Studio Network Solutions, exclusively for Ross Video Ross Video has announced a partnership with Studio Network Solutions (SNS), and unveiled an exclusive line of storage products.

Fibre

Quantum streamlines media production for Motorcar Parts of America

The installation for MPA includes a combination of Xcellis workflow storage, which is powered by StorNext and CatDV media asset management software Motorcar Parts of America (MPA), a company focusing on manufacturing a range of products for cars and trucks, has installed a combination of Xcellis workflow storage powered by StorNext and CatDV media asset management (MAM) software.

Management

Rohde & Schwarz debuts new storage solution at IBC2018

R&S SpycerNode is the first storage product on the M&E market to feature high performance computing (HPC), said the company To meet the demands of today’s media environments, storage solutions must satisfy high requirements, in terms of scalability and workflow integration.

Management

Pebble Beach Systems adds EditShare’s storage to channel device

The integrated solution is said to enable fast turnaround by allowing users to play out the channel or view as ‘preview’ directly from the shared storage Pebble Beach Systems and EditShare have entered a partnership, which will see the integration of the former’s Dolphin integrated channel device with the latter’s XStream EFS shared storage options.

APB+

Cloud is a horizon within broadcasters’ reach

With the many functions and roles cloud can potentially play across many different media applications across the broadcast chain, the technology is poised to be a game-changer in shaping the future of the media industry Video distribution today is not solely restricted to within the country or region where a broadcaster is licensed to operate.