Entertainment and Media’s Post-production Storage Crisis

Collaboration is an important requirement for post-production editing, compositing, animation, special effects, color grading, mastering, and archiving. SAN storage does not natively provide that collaborative workload sharing. Workload sharing can only be run on a small high performance SAN environment when there is a shared SAN file system. When those shared SAN file systems are scaled to a mid-sized or larger SAN, system performance rapidly degenerates. To effectively scale this type of SAN system means providing dedicated systems to small groups.

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Jolly Planet Entertainment

Jolly Planet Entertainment licenses film, television and web content domestically and internationally, matching content with multiple distribution channels to maximize revenue. On behalf of its clients, Jolly Planet Entertainment has licensed content and negotiated business terms with major TVOD, AVOD and DVD retailers, and SVOD platforms; broadcast service providers and telecommunications companies; television networks and other content licensing partners.

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Customer Loyalty Report

whitePaper | April 1, 2021

Customer retention is important to every business, but loyalty is hard won – especially when a single bad customer experience can be broadcast to other consumers in just a few clicks. For the first time, Brandwatch has partnered with GWI to combine both our data sources and expertise to answer some of the big questions around customer advocacy and detraction for retailers.

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TRANSFORMING RETAIL MEDIA THROUGH STANDARDIZATION

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

Retail media networks (RMNs) are at a pivotal moment in their growth. In the last two years, advertiser investment in these platforms has surged, and marketing industry analysts predict growth to continue in the near term. While RMNs offer multiple benefits—including the ability to deliver highly targeted messages that connect with consumers at the point of purchase—they also have significant challenges. Among the largest: no industry-wide standardization.

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5G in Video Streaming: Is the Media Industry Prepared?

whitePaper | April 7, 2020

By 2022, online videos will comprise more than 1 82% of all consumer internet trafc. As online video consumption increases, providing highquality video content along with immersive experiences is crucial for achieving greater levels of customer engagement. However, 4G networks are no longer enough to deliver high-quality video content of 4K and 8K quality that requires higher speed (> 500 kmph), higher data rates (1-5 Gbps) and lower latency .

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FUTURE OF EXTENDED REALITY

whitePaper | February 28, 2022

Enthusiasts of XR (extended reality) have long dreamed of, experimented with and adopted the technologies that immersed them in new worlds – one beyond the limitations of physics and time. We believe the industry is at an inflection point, and the time for business to act is now. In this report, we interviewed global experts and leaders from industry to get their thoughts on the Future of Extended Reality, its impact on business, and its meteoric rise with the popularisation of the metaverse concept.

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Dell Streaming Data Platform: Architecture, Configuration, and Considerations

whitePaper | January 3, 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings the promise of new possibilities, but to unlock them, organizations must change how they think about data. With the emergence of IoT, there is a new class of applications that processes streaming data from sensors and devices that are spread around the globe. In theory, the solution is simple: turn massive amounts of data into real-time insights by immediately processing and analyzing it in a continuous and infinite fashion. However, managing streaming IoT data is not that simple. Legacy infrastructure is not made to support IoT data streaming from millions of data sources with varying datatypes. The world of streaming IoT requires a shift to the world of real-time applications consuming continuous and infinite streams.

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ENGAGE CONSUMERS WITH IMMERSIVE MEDIA

whitePaper | January 8, 2020

Immersive media delivered as virtual reality (VR),full 360°I 180" video streaming and VR commerce can be embedded into the lifestyle of digital consumers. Digital technologies break barriers between consumer platforms and pave the way for applications across media and entertainment, telecommunications, sports, retail, and education. Incumbent telco’s and media companies are exploring innovative methods to adopt immersive technol09 es and grow the r business.

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Jolly Planet Entertainment

Jolly Planet Entertainment licenses film, television and web content domestically and internationally, matching content with multiple distribution channels to maximize revenue. On behalf of its clients, Jolly Planet Entertainment has licensed content and negotiated business terms with major TVOD, AVOD and DVD retailers, and SVOD platforms; broadcast service providers and telecommunications companies; television networks and other content licensing partners.

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