2014 Survey Summary for Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment

Digital storage plays a significant role in the professional media and entertainment industry. Digital storage for the M&E industry has demand characteristics often very different from typical IT storage because of the performance requirements of real-time video in capture, editing and post-production as well as distribution. On the other hand, the ever growing archive of long-tail digital content and increasing digitized historical analog content is swelling the demand for cold as well as warm archives using tape, optical discs and hard drive arrays. — In March through May of 2014 Coughlin Associates, Inc. conducted a survey of professional media and entertainment professionals on various digital storage topics. The survey was broken down into several segments: content capture, editing and post-production, content delivery as well as archiving and digital preservation.

Published

2014-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Digital Storage, Hard Disk Drive, Flash Memory, Optical Disc, Content Capture, Post Production, Content Delivery, Archive, Preservation, Survey

DOI

10.5594/M001576

ISBN

978-1-61482-954-6