Online Virtual  Seminar (Please click HERE to register)

Tom Coughlin, President,

Coughlin Associates

Abstract:

The media and entertainment industry uses a lot of storage and requires both high performance storage systems as well as lots of capacity.  The characteristics of storage systems for media and entertainment can be quite different from conventional enterprise storage, depending upon the application.  Find out about the uses of various digital storage technologies for content capture, post production, content delivery and archiving and how various storage media, including SSDs, HDDs and magnetic tape; are being used to create, distribute and preserve real time broadcasts and feature films.   This presentation is based upon the Coughlin Associates annual Digital Storage in Media and Entertainment Report, including results from the annual survey on digital storage in professional media and entertainment.

Speaker’s Short Bio:

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant.  He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies.  Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports (including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report), and puts on digital storage-oriented events.  He is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites.  He is an IEEE Fellow, Past-President of IEEE-USA, Past Director of IEEE Region 6 and Past Chair of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and is also active with SNIA and SMPTE. For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications and activities go to www.tomcoughlin.com.