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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