Bursting The “Cloudbursting” Bubble
Chris Hoff, writing on his Rational Survivability Blog discusses his contempt for “Cloudbursting”, this is a corruption of the term ‘bursting’ and refers to a […]
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Risks Of Outsourcing Digital Asset Storage To Cloud Providers
The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has published an article about the risks of outsourcing data storage to external providers who hold records in the cloud. NAA have indicated that most of the risks can be mitigated if recognised:
- Regulatory requirements may be broken
- The storage location may create
45% Of Advertisers Expect Digital Video Ad Spending To Increase In 2011
According to this Digidaily.com article, almost half the agencies and advertisers and agencies in one of their recent surveys are planning to increase their spending on on-line video advertising, with roughly 30% predicting a double digit rise:
“More than half of the more than 100 responding advertisers and agencies …
Continue reading »KIT Digital Buys IP Video Management And Delivery Company Ioko
KIT Digital, provider of video asset management software and related services, have announced the purchase of IP video management and delivery company, Ioko for $91.4 million in cash and stock.
“Ioko provides an end-to-end managed cloud-based platform for multi-screen video delivery over connected IP devices to telecommunications cable, media and …
Continue reading »DAM Best Practices Workshop: April 9th 2011, Philadelphia, USA
DAM vendor, Extensis will be sponsoring a workshop a the Museums and the Web 2011 Conference in Philadelphia this Saturday (9th April). The presentation will be delivered by Edward Smith from Extensis and Maggie Hanson, from Portland Art Museum. It will cover topics such as:
- How to assess your
A Technical Overview Of H.264
Strictly one for the techies, but a comprehensive and confidently written article by Jan Ozer on Streamingmedia.com nonetheless. Jan covers the H.264 specification, codec implementations, licensing and quality relative to other competing technologies plus a number of other fundamental topics. This is taken from the adoption and support section and …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart 2011 DAM Conferences: London & LA Dates Announced (24th June & 14th-15th November)
DAM conference organiser, Henry Stewart, have announced dates of their L0ndon (EU) and Los Angeles (LA) conferences. The London event will take place on 24th June 2011 at the Le Meridien Piccadilly:
“We are delighted to welcome back as chair, David Lipsey, well-known digital media industry founder and contributor …
Continue reading »ResourceSpace 4.1.2567 Released
One of our featured open source DAM vendors, ResourceSpace, have released an updated version 4.1.2567 with a range of fixes and new features, including:
- Video preview in full screen preview pages
- Many translation improvements
- Config option to enable experimental collection sorting mode
- UI tweaks and adding count of
2nd Annual DAMMY Awards: 2011 Call For Entries
Createasphere, have announced that they are now accepting nominations for the 2nd DAMMY Awards. The categories include:
- DAMMY of the Year
- Best Storage, Archive and/or Preservation Solution
- Best Example of Asset & Media Repurposing
- Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management During the Acquisition of Content
Knowledge Gap Obstacle To DAM In India’s Film Industry
In this article, S. Shyamala at Financial Chronicle identifies the unwillingness of the Indian film industry to embrace the latest digital technologies. Both a lack of knowledge and also financial issues severely hamper the adoption of digital technologies in the sector, and despite some market penetration by digital asset management …
Continue reading »Open Source Is ‘The Future For DAM’
DAM consultants, Daydream, have released an interesting article that examines how open source licensing models may be the future for digital asset management software distribution.
“There is a great deal of confusion regarding open source software products, which can make it complex for managers to compare the options when …
Continue reading »Crowdsourcing Survey Provides Snapshot Of Web System Uptake
A recent survey from Communications Of The ACM has investigated the growing use of crowdsourcing in web systems worldwide.
“This survey attempts to provide a global picture of crowdsourcing systems (CS) on the Web. We define and classify such systems, then describe a broad sample of systems… Given the space …
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