November 25, 2020How automation simplifies content acquisition
Anyone who accepts content from multiple suppliers knows that making sure it has arrived, then checking that what you’ve received is what you’re expecting, can be quite the headache. Nik Forman explores how we should let the systems take the strain.
November 16, 2020Cloud storage: costs and other considerations
When it comes to cloud and hybrid storage there’s a lot to think about. In this extended blog post, Masstech CDO/CTO James Whitebread gives an oversight of what you need to think about, what you can expect, and some of the tools that can help.
October 27, 2020Five Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Storage
Masstech VP Product, Savva Mueller has been looking at hybrid cloud storage, and how recent events have accelerated the adoption by many media organizations of public (and private) cloud as an added storage tier to enhance their existing on-prem systems.
October 21, 2020Nutanix users – welcome to Kumulate
Following Masstech’s announcement of new integrations with the Nutanix suite of compute and storage solutions, Chris Luther (Director of Product & Pre-Sales, Americas) runs us through some of the practices and benefits of Kumulate working in a hyper-converged infrastructure
October 13, 2020Libraries & archives – managing & monetising your media inventory
Design for Tomorrow is a major project from the DPP that has been running over the summer looking at how to build business in the media industry in the future with resilience and agility. One section of the report focused on managing and monetizing media inventories and identified six success factors required to design tomorrow’s […]
October 6, 2020Technology: Some statistics and predictions
Masstech CDO James Whitebread likes a good statistic, and he thought it would be nice to share some stats and predictions around Media & Entertainment, storage, AI/ML, 5G, VR/AR, gaming and more.
September 28, 2020Smart storage for media files
Chris Luther (Director of Product & Pre-Sales, Americas) works with Masstech end-users every week, helping to deploy storage systems that meet and exceed their needs. He’s picked up a few ideas on how the smart storage of the future should work.
September 15, 2020Promoting & delivering content in the era of ‘Peak TV’
How do content publishers source, process and re-purpose content in a world still affected by delays to scripted shows? Masstech VP Product, Savva Mueller, has some thoughts.
September 8, 2020Happy Birthday to Ku!(mulate)
It’s been exactly one year since Masstech launched Kumulate. And it’s been … well, let’s just say “what a year it has been”, writes Masstech CEO George Kilpatrick
August 31, 2020I’ve lost August. But it’s okay, I’ve discovered immortality.
It’s coming up to what would have been the actual IBC show, and its virtual replacement. Marketing Director Nik Forman looks at tradeshow-centric calendars, Einsteinian gravity, and missing Amsterdam.
