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| (06.14.06) |
How Networking Changes Storage Structures
The end of the analog broadcast era signals opportunities for broadcasters to add services that will force infrastructure changes beyond those just recently made to support digital television.
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| (04.12.06) |
Searching for the Right Servers at NAB2006
It's just about that time again, so as you're making plans for the big show, consider reviewing some of these server topics before heading to the world's largest broadcast shopping mall that is NAB2006.
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| (02.08.06) |
Data Storage Moves Into The Realm of Exabytes
The past decade has seen the broadcast and professional side of content storage technologies focused on systems that define operational workflow requirements while addressing physical scaling in order to meet the objective of migrating from tape to disks.
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| (01.11.06) |
Backup & Protection for the Digital Media Age
The preservation and protection of digital media assets has become a critical operational and legal directive for many businesses. For the broadcaster--whose dependence on disk systems for the capture, storage and play-out of their assets is growing--this trend is challenging on several fronts.
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| (12.07.05) |
Storage: Sending Out an SAS
High speed, high bandwidth and high availability--all are on the "must-have" list for advanced media storage technologies.
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| (10.05.05) |
Tools
and Practices for Managing Media Storage
The reliability of media server systems and their storage networks
continues to be a growing factor in determining which systems are
employed and how.
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| (09.07.05) |
Archiving
for Asset Management
One of the elements in an end-to-end digital asset management system
includes how long-term and near-term storage of media will be handled.
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| (08.03.05) |
Anticipating Storage Management Needs
Storage is now the name of the game and the wake-up call to address it has already happened. Postponing decisions related to long-term digital media storage is just not an option.
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| (07.06.05) |
Fibre
Channel Fends Off Competitors
Fibre Channel data rates are about to double--again.
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| (05.04.05) |
Standards
and Protocols In Streaming Media
Over the years, we've observed the delivery model for moving images
evolve from the over-the-air broadcast to cable/direct-to-home transmission
and more recently to the Internet. One of the latest permutations
is streaming media.
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| (04.06.05) |
Flexible
Networks for Media Services
To help understand what is evolving in the transport of these services,
we will explore some of the networks, transports and switching mechanisms
employed today--with an eye on the future of media distribution.
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| (03.09.05) |
Home
Media Server Concepts Evolve
Digital media servers are heading straight into the living room,
thanks in part to the DVD evolution.
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| (02.02.05) |
The
Impact of Advanced Video Coding
Video compression technologies will change the models we've grown
to embrace since the introduction of 500-channel cable and direct-to-home
satellite broadcast.
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| (01.05.05) |
Bigger
is Not Always Better With Disk Drives
There are several factors in selecting a hard-disk drive storage
subsystem.
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| (12.08.04) |
The
Evolution of the Universal Serial Bus
Portability is becoming a driving force in both consumer and professional
media systems.
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| (10.06.04) |
Considerations
for Capturing and Logging
The recent FCC notice (MB Docket No. 04-232) has challenged broadcasters
to potentially come up with a plan to retain recordings of their
programming for some yet-to-be-determined period of time, "such
as 60 to 90 days."
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| (09.08.04) |
Server Interoperability
The recent adoption of SMPTE 377M--Material Exchange Format (MXF)
and its predecessor SMPTE 360M--along with the General Exchange
Format (GXF), has set the tone for interoperability and the interchange
of meaningful data and formats between file-based media-centric
devices.
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| (08.04.04) |
Serial ATA Technology
IT professionals are beginning to turn to an old, reliable and proven
drive technology that is being packaged into new products aimed
at addressing the cost/performance equation.
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| (07.07.04) |
The
Business Case for Asset Management
In the process of planning for a system that will manage media assets,
it becomes extremely important to quantify, qualify and clarify
what the MAM, DAM or DRM system is to accomplish.
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| (04.07.04) |
Ethernet
Networking in the 10 GB Domain
Today, Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3z) has become a mainstay standard
for networking, yet the expected demand for systems with data rates
in excess of 1 Gbps is no longer just a dream.
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| (02.04.04) |
Backing
Up Media Content
It goes without saying that data is one of the enterprise's most
valuable assets - so protecting it is of paramount importance; yet
for many, it's also one of the biggest headaches.
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| (11.12.03) |
Asynchronous
Interfaces For Video Servers
The ability to ingest and output MPEG-2 streams via an asynchronous
serial interface, or ASI, is one of the emerging advances in media
storage.
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| (09.17.03) |
From
Tape to Disk: Plenty of Advances in Store
1983 marked the dawn of digital storage
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| (09.03.03) |
Planning
for Storage And Asset Management
With video media server technology now well entrenched in the
moving image industry, and storage costs per gigabyte much lower
compared to five years ago, users now find one of the foremost topics
is the management of an ever-growing quantity of content.
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| (07.09.03) |
Intelligent
Storage for Media Content Systems
As file formats and media structures have stabilized, and the
interface capabilities between devices and platforms have matured,
the "video server" has truly moved from that of video-centric storage
to that of media content storage and processing.
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| (04.07.03) |
Essential
Elements for The Video Server Facility
In this installment we will look at the building block components
used to build a complete facility including ingest, server playout,
production/editorial, archive and off-site asset protection for disaster
recovery purposes. |
| (01.08.03) |
Fibre
Channel Switched Architectures
The power of high-speed interconnections for video servers continues
to shape the architecture of modern network-based storage systems.
As the use and deployment of these systems grow, of paramount issue
is the protection of the stored assets from disruptive activities,
an important part of meeting the needs of a continuous full time operation.
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| (12.11.02) |
Elements
of the SAN
The days in which new server installations in broadcast facilities
consisting of a single dedicated array of storage are dwindling. |
| (10.09.02) |
Understanding
Reliability In Media Server Systems
Early adopters of video servers were faced with the question
of just how much reliability they could or would tolerate in their
server systems given the revenue impact on their operations should
a failure occur.
|
| (09.18.02) |
MRAM: The
Future of RAM?
Relatively new memory technology could sidestep all current RAM technologies.
The low-power, nonvolatile micromemory-cell technology is called magnetoresistive
random access memory or MRAM. |
| (08.07.02) |
IPTV Gaining
Industry Acceptance
IPTV focuses on communications for large organizations and for smaller
organizations with sources from third-party entities. Major companies,
government and academic institutions are either already deploying
IPTV or certainly considering it for the future.
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| (07.10.02) |
Media
Distribution: Take Your Pick
The hardware required for the storage and distribution of multiformat
media as data is no longer rocket science. Today's large-scale media
server systems in broadcast, cable and news facilities already employ
multipurpose, multiformat encoding schemes for various uses and means
of delivery. The most familiar -- proxy encoding -- can store hi-resolution
content and make that same content available for browse and streaming
media applications at lower resolution. Getting that content -- as
files or streams, to the users in a reliable, cost-effective method,
is the next challenge for this decade. |
| (05.01.02) |
The
Evolution of MPEG-7
The turn of the millennium brought many flavors to the managing,
producing, searching and offering of digital multimedia. Of the
available flavors, MPEG has risen to strategic value for audiovisual
representation; and MPEG development continues toward a broader,
more encompassing field of multimedia management and distribution.
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| (04.03.03) |
New Structures
for Storage
Advances in storage architectures have shown a migration from JBOD
(just-a-bunch-of-disks), through simple RAID arrays, and on to more
complex and common storage systems. Now, for both media and data applications,
moves toward storage networking are well under way. |
| (02.06.02) |
Connecting
It All
When building any form of network, elements for consideration include
manageability, versatility, compatibility and cost effectiveness. |
| (01.23.02) |
File
Interchange, Part II
The adoption of digital media has opened the door to myriad opportunities
for the exchange of information. When last we discussed the principles
of file interchange, we touched on the user requirements for interchange
and the definitions of metadata sets that are included in the material
body. |
| (11.14.01) |
File
Interchange, Part I
Video server users have long sought a means to exchange files
between differing video and media server platforms.
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| (10.03.01) |
Serving
Up ITV, Part II
Last month we discussed how nonvideo centric services for DTV are
being supported under the umbrella of data broadcasting, that technology
structured by – and described within – the ATSC A/90 data
broadcast framework. |
| (09.05.01) |
Serving Up
ITV, Part 1
Once the deployment of digital television (DTV) advances enough
to warrant meaningful data broadcasting and other services –
such as interactive television – content developers and broadcasters
will need a means to store, manage and process that data as it makes
its way through the DTV system.
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| (08.08.01) |
Applying
the Network Appliance
Could the video file server evolve to become a video network appliance? |
| (07.11.01) |
Applying
the Network Appliance
Could the video file server evolve to become a video network appliance?
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| (06.13.01) |
Prospective
for Global Storage Networks
Just how long will it be before the methods for moving media storage
become synonymous with those of computer data storage in today’s
global enterprises?
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| (05.02.01) |
SCSI’S
20th Anniversary Review
This year SCSI, the industry-recognized naming acronym for "Small
Computer Systems Interface" is 20 years young.
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| (03.07.01) |
The Changing Landscape
of Archival
The dependence on digital tape for nearline storage and long-term
data archive is steadily changing how broadcast, cable and satellite
delivery facilities look at video/media server implementation.
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| (01.10.01) |
Storage
Architecture Continues to Evolve
In the information age of the 21st century, one of the
fastest-changing elements seems to focus on the means and methods
of how information is stored and distributed.
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| (year 2000) |
Principles in
Archive Management, Part II
Last month we introduced you to the archive, one of the less
understood components of the enterprise video server solution.
|
| (year 2000) |
Principles in Archive Management
The broadcast video server is not quite 10 years old and already
a number of ancillary capabilities and components have become
commonplace in their implementation.
|
| (year 2000) |
Advanced Intelligent
Tape Options
In the next few short years, broadcasters all have to make serious
choices in digital media technology.
|
| (year 2000) |
Meeting the Demands of
Networking Infrastructures
The business of managing information technology continues to
spawn a number of tactical debates on all fronts.
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| (year 2000) |
Methods
of Information Delivery
The digital age is bringing to light a great deal more types of
information and an equal number of variations in how to deliver
it.
|
| (year 2000) |
Tempering the Cost of the
Digital Transition
Broadcast group owners continue to explore alternatives to operational
practices in order to offset the costs required to make the transition
to digital.
|
| (year 2000) |
Video Servers Go
Above and Beyond
Users of video server products are continuing their dependence upon
them beyond just spot or interstitial playback of media.
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