HITS Connections
M&E Journal: Turning E-Waste Into Opportunities for Others
By Brandon Smith, VP of Sales, human-I-T - We begin with Amir Patel, age 7, of the village of Sangarampur in northeast India. Nearby, piles of electronics nearly 6-feethigh wai... More
Program, Keynotes Announced for Dec. 5 Content Protection Summit in Los Angeles
The annual Content Delivery & Security Association’s (CDSA) Content Protection Summit (CPS) on Dec. 5 in Marina del Rey is the largest conference of the year dedicated to sec... More
Storage Options Have Become Far More Complex – Can Your Software Handle It?
By Megan Cater, Senior Manager Digital Content at Signiant - Increasingly over the past few years, IT managers in the M&E sector have had to juggle a far more complex storage la... More
Ooyala Taps Google Cloud for Flex Media Platform
Content supply chain solutions specialist Ooyala has partnered with Google Cloud to leverage that companies technologies for its Ooyala Flex Media Platform, the companies announced... More
AI Opportunities, Challenges Take Center Stage at MicroStrategy Symposium
NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence (AI) can play an important role in organizations successfully transforming into intelligent enterprises, but it can’t be relied on to cure al... More
NAB Show New York 2018: Microsoft Azure, NAGRA, ThinkAnalytics Tout Latest Products, Strategies, Trends
NEW YORK — Microsoft Azure, NAGRA Kudelski and ThinkAnalytics were among the many members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) that showcased their latest produc... More
NAB Show New York: Avid, AWS Elemental, Caringo Tout Latest Products, Strategies
NEW YORK — Avid, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental and Caringo were among the many members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) that are showcasing their lates... More
HITS Fall: Blockchain Can Help Production Workflow, But Challenges Remain, DXC Director Says
Blockchain stands to help content production workflow, but there continue to be some challenges around the technology, so each organization must determine if it’s the right solut... More
HITS Fall: LiveTiles Shares Intelligent Workplace Ideas
If you’re going to bring artificial intelligence into your business — in order to make it a more intelligent workplace — you need to ask yourself a few simple questions, acco... More
HITS Fall: M&E Companies Should Modernize Their Capabilities Using AI, Advanced Analytics, MicroStrategy Says
Media and entertainment companies stand to benefit from modernizing their capabilities through advanced and predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML... More
M&E Journal: Accelerating and Automating Workflows for Modern Media Production
By Richard Heitmann, VP of Marketing, Aspera, an IBM company - Today’s media companies need to create more video content than ever — and in a growing number of formats, reso... More
HITS Fall: Ooyala’s Sakata Stresses Importance of Supply Chain Metadata
LOS ANGELES — Glen Sakata knows metadata — and making sure it’s done right — can be intimidating to some. But it doesn’t have to be. “When you look at it from the en... More
HITS Fall: Box CEO Touts Industry’s Digital Transformation
LOS ANGELES — The media and entertainment industry continues to undergo a digital transformation, according to Box CEO Aaron Levie, with more cloud-based tool, integrated workflo... More
HITS Fall: Pepperdine’s Ludovisi Offers Fan Engagement Ideas
LOS ANGELES — Claudio Ludovisi, assistant dean and head of strategic innovation, marketing and alumni relations at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Mana... More
HITS Fall: Google Cloud, Mediamorph, Expert System to Offer Supply Chain Perspectives
Supply chain experts from Google Cloud, Mediamorph and Expert System are set to offer their takes on the latest trends media and entertainment companies need to watch for, Oct. 4 a... More
HITS Fall: Four CEOs to Highlight Blockchain, Machine Learning
CEOs from Mavatar, OTOY, Eluvio and Videocites will give attendees of the Oct. 4 Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit (HITS) Fall event in Los Angeles new insights into how... More
‘Disrupting Perfectionism’ Theme for SoCal Women’s Leadership Group Annual Meeting
The concept of “Disrupting Perfectionism” will be taken up by a consortium of Hollywood’s leading women’s groups at the Oct. 4 SoCal Women’s Leadership Group annual meeti... More
Microsoft: Cybersecurity the ‘Central Challenge of the Digital Age’
Microsoft used this year’s Ignite conference to stress the need for increased IT security and introduced various new security products and programs, including Microsoft Authentic... More
Adobe, Microsoft, SAP Unveil Open Data Initiative
Adobe, Microsoft and SAP teamed up to introduce an initiative they said was designed to enable their customers to derive more value from their data. The Open Data Initiative, un... More
MESA Members to Be Out in Force at NAB Show New York
Several members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are planning to exhibit at NAB Show New York, Oct. 17-18 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. More than ... More