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NAB 2019: SHIFT Sees Uptake; Prime Focus Debuts Micro Services

LAS VEGAS — Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) used the NAB Show to debut a suite of AI-led micro services, all custom-made for media and entertainment enterprises. “Our AI-led ... More

HITS Spring Returns to L.A. May 23, with ‘Tech Takes Talent’ Theme

Hollywood’s technology community is in a seismic state of change. New tech giant arrivals are filling their local talent pools while traditional studios are transforming and retr... More

NAB 2019: Wasabi Shares Cloud Storage Innovations; Avid Innovates for M&E; Western Digital Talks Object Storage

LAS VEGAS — Wasabi has set its sights on Asia for its next data center as part of the company’s planned international expansion, according to Whit Jackson, Wasabi’s VP of med... More

NAB 2019: Cloud Solutions on Hand From MESA Members

By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey – This is the first of two stories previewing some of the cloud solutions being showcased at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. Members of t... More

NAB 2019: MESA Members to Show Off Storage Offerings

By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey - Members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) representing the storage solutions space at the 2019 NAB Show discussed here... More

NAB 2019: MESA Members Bring New Workflow Offerings to Vegas

By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey – This is the second of three stories previewing some of the workflow solutions being showcased at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. You ca... More

Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH) Nominates Entertainment Leaders for 3rd Annual Awards

Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH), an organization that serves as a catalyst for the advancement of women in entertainment technology, has announced the nominees for its 3rd An... More

NAB 2019: New Workflow Offerings on Hand From MESA Members

By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey – This is the first of three stories previewing some of the workflow solutions being showcased at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. Members... More

Adobe CEO: We’re Targeting an ‘$100B Addressable Market’

Adobe got off to a strong start this year and continues to see a lot of opportunities across its Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud businesses, according to Shanta... More

Smart Hollywood Summit: The Importance of Building a Blockchain Community

Blockchains, distributed ledgers and related technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way we track and manage natively digital assets and physical artifacts, but the te... More

Singular University’s Ismail to Tackle the Smart Machine Age at ‘Industry 4.0’ Event

Salim Ismail, founding executive director of Silicon Valley business incubator institution Singularity University, will take the stage April 2 at the “Industry 4.0: The Future of... More

Apple’s Wozniak to Discuss the Smart Machine Age at ‘Industry 4.0’ Event

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, will close out the day April 2 at the “Industry 4.0: The Future of Humanity in the Smart Machine Age” event in Los Angeles with a t... More

Hammerspace: Data Beyond Storage

Los Altos, Calif.-based Hammerspace has a simple mission: allow for the delivery of unstructured data across the hybrid cloud, without that data tied to storage. By removing the li... More

M&E Journal: The Progression of Digital Archives

By Robert Crotty, COO, 5th Kind - As filmmaking went digital, final picture—once the single deliverable—became supplemented by hard drives and archival tape of digital conte... More

Microsoft Azure Exec: ‘Everybody’ Has an AI Strategy

Cloud adoption and interest in artificial intelligence (AI) among customers remains strong and keep increasing, according to Julia White, corporate VP of Azure Marketing at Microso... More

SAP CFO: Company’s Cloud, CRM Businesses to Continue Growing

SAP expects that its cloud business will continue to grow significantly, even as it looks to expand further into the customer relationship management (CRM) sector, according to SAP... More

DXC CEO: Company to Close Luxoft Acquisition by June 30

DXC Technology is on track to close its planned purchase of Luxoft by the end of June, according to Mike Lawrie, DXC CEO and president. Luxoft's digital talent acquisition capab... More

SAP CFO: New Technologies, Finance Teams Play Key Roles in Organizations’ Digital Transformations

Artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technologies, along with CFOs and their finance teams, all have significant roles to play in transforming companies into digital organiza... More

Wipro Launches Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 Solution

IT specialist Wipro announced the launch of a new ATSC 3.0 solution Feb. 1, one that enables North American hardware manufacturers to offer hybrid TV viewing of broadcast content o... More

Studios, Vendors to Tackle Everything EIDR at Jan. 30 Participant Meeting

Studio executives, experts from the Hollywood vendor community and OTT providers will all be on hand Jan. 30 in Playa Vista, Calif. for the annual Participant Meeting of the Entert... More

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