September 2015 – At IBC 2015, Imagine Communications introduced a new software service and product for Just in Time Transcode (JITT) that is available in the cloud and can be run on any web server. The product is called SelenioNext. In addition to being a real time transcoder for both live data feeds and UDP…
September 2015 – Imagine Communications recently released version 3 of the Versio platform. The version 2 was an appliance that handing the baseband control, input/output, clip control and all the other standard functions of the broadcast. The version 2 appliance, however, was constrained by the bandwidth and distribution limitations of the coax that connected the…
May 2015 – At the Conections 2015 event in the San Francisco Bay Area in May, we had a chance to meet with Rovi to talk about their direction and progress on enhanced personalization control for the connected home and access to entertainment content. The shift is coming that the interfaces for devices is no…
April 2015 – The trend from the three big “A” companies at NAB – Autodesk, Adobe, Avid – were all showing collaboration in the cloud as the main theme. While the individual companies also highlighted enhancement to the point tools in the content creation flow, the commonality was that projects are moving away from single…
April 2015 – Just before the start of the NAB expo, Imagine Communications held their press and customer event at the Hard Rock Hotel, with special guest Foreigner. The kick off for the event was a talk by CEO Charlie Vogt on his vision for the industry and Imagine Communications. The direction for the industry…
April 2015 – At NAB 2015, two companies on the show floor were showing critical infrastructure for both terrestrial and cloud based development flows. Editshare was showing their MAM solutions as well as improvements in their local storage products, and Signiant their improvements in the cloud based transport mechanism for content files. Signiant was showing…
April 20, 2015, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco—Philippe Courtot from Qualys talked about global security and privacy as being an intertwined pair. Both are being threatened while users want more of each of them. The two concepts are parallels to Doctors without Borders in that they are working in areas of greatest need. To prevent…
April 8, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Fredrik Forslund from Blancco described the techniques and requirements for data erasure. Even though there are needs to keep data, there are also incentives to delete those data completely. Software erasure has grown with the growth of computers. The drivers for complete and certifiable erasure to…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Gideon Senderov from NEC talked about data protection and restoration from the perspective of the recovery techniques. In general, restoration techniques are developed to provide data protection based on the ability to recover those data. The SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) has some papers and templates…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Lance Broel from DDN Storage talked about managing and storing massive quantities of data. This new type of storage capability requires a change from blocks and files to object storage. One growing challenge is to manage the increasing volumes of newly generated data. Much of these…