Archive for the ‘Podcasts’ Category

Cloud Computing and Cloud Optimized Delivery Solutions

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Listen in as Signiant’s Tony Lapolito and Robert Browne discuss cloud computing and the trends in the marketplace. Robert discusses the spike in interest and adoption of cloud computing that he’s seen with enterprise customers over the past 12 months. The discussion leads to how Signiant fits into the cloud to manage, automate and secure the movement of content to, from and between clouds. It’s a great conversation, have a listen.

 
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Tom O Sits Down with Interra’s Ashish Basu

Friday, May 15th, 2009

In this Podcast, Tom Ohanian sits down with Ashish Basu, Interra Systems‘ VP of Sales & Business Development. Ashish provides a brief overview of the company and the two explain how Interra’s automated content readiness solution, Baton, integrates with Signiant’s Content Distribution Management software.

Tom and Ashish also discuss SIPP, Signiant’s newly launched product integration program and the benefits it provides to partners such as Interra Systems who have recently joined.

 
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Managed File Transfers – Part 2

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

As promised, here is part 2 of Tom Ohanian’s podcast (with slides) entitled: Managed File Transfers – Beyond WAN Optimization for Digital Media. If you missed the first part, just scroll down a bit and you’ll see it.

 
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Managed File Transfers – Beyond WAN Optimization for Digital Media

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

This podcast is delivered by Signiant’s Chief Strategy Officer, Tom Ohanian, and is accompanied by a presentation for your reference. This is the first of a two-part podcast covering file acceleration considerations, deployment models, various file transfer protocols, and more. Please have a listen, this first part is less than 7 minutes long.

 
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Current’s Steven Blumenfeld speaks with Tom Ohanian

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

In this podcast, Signiant’s Tom Ohanian speaks with Current’s Chief Technology Officer, Steven Blumenfeld. Steven describes Current and explains that the company’s mission is to “democratize television”.  He states that although quality is important to Current, it’s not as important as the story and the in-depth reporting that’s involved in getting the story. Steven also describes the challenges of ingesting content from citizen journalists and where Signiant fits in by automating Current’s workflow, taking humans out of the equation and thereby eliminating human error. There’s a lot more interesting insight from Steven, have a listen.

 
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Tom Ohanian Speaks with BT’s Mark Wilson-Dunn

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Tom Ohanian sits down with Mark Wilson-Dunn, BT’s Executive VP of Global Sales & Marketing for BT Media and Broadcast, to discuss BT’s partnership with Signiant and explain exactly what BT is doing in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. Mark describes what the Mosaic solution is and why the demonstrations of it at NAB were so well received.

In addition to outlining BT’s offerings, the pair discuss the state of the media and entertainment industry, the concept of SaaS for M&E, the uniqueness of the M&E industry and how it operates as a true ecosystem, and much more. Have a listen.

 
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Tom and Tony’s CES Observations

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Signiant’s Tom Ohanian and Tony Lapolito discuss their observations while at CES in Vegas.

Though Tony focuses on Panasonic’s 150″ Plasma TV, Tom’s biggest takeaway from the show is that companies are focused on servicing the consumer, now, more than ever. There’s also a lot of discussion about the many devices that are available today to deliver quality content to the consumer.

As always, there’s a lot of interesting banter and observations in this Podcast, have a listen.

 
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Current Talks to Signiant about their Tapeless Workflow

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

In this Podcast, Signiant’s Tom Ohanian and Tony Lapolito are joined by Joe Maidenberg, the VP of Post Production Services, and Dave Simon, the Director of Broadcast Engineering at Current (www.current.com), the industry’s first Emmy® Award winning peer-to-peer news and information network.

Joe and Dave discuss the many unique facets of Current including the fact that viewers create all of the short-form, non-fiction content and how Current manages its completely tapeless, file-based workflow.

They also explain the challenges, but more importantly, the benefits of their tapeless environment. The Podcast offers many interesting technical details, have a listen.

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Collaborative Post Production, Avid-to-Avid transfers and more…

Friday, December 7th, 2007

In this podcast, Tom Ohanian discusses collaborative post production and the trends that are affecting (shrinking) the production schedule. Tom explains that certain variables, including distributed sets of individuals working on a 24/7 schedule and the cost of storage decreasing all the time, are just a couple of the factors that are contributing to the need for digital media supply chains. Further, Tom details how Signiant’s technology powers Avid-to-Avid transfer across WANs.

 
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NBC Universal’s Nader Kazemi

Friday, October 5th, 2007

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Listen in as NBC Universal’s Nader Kazemi, Deployment Manager for Digital Media Delivery, explains the challenges he faced before having Signiant in place and how Signiant solved his problems. It’s less than 10 minutes long and worth the listen! Nader specifically discusses having:

  • A globally distributed environment with high latency

  • Many different workflows with a number of variations, requirements

  • The need for a central management of aggregated systems

 
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Signiant Update – IBC, customers and ravioli?

Friday, October 5th, 2007

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In this episode of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian and Tony Lapolito discuss what’s been happening at Signiant these last few months. The pair discuss the recent success of IBC and Tom offers the details of a couple of new Signiant customers and the problems that Signiant solved. The two also dish on ravioli in Italy…you’ll have to listen in!

We hope you enjoy this podcast. If you have any comments or feedback, please email editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com.

 
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Tom Speaks to IBC Radio Prior to IBC 2007

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Listen in as Tom Ohanian discusses the explosion of digital media and how you can service the Digital Media Supply Chain with so many distribution channels. Tom describes how you can go from content creation to ingest to manipulation to editing to transcoding and encoding and ultimately to delivering your media files.

 
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DMG #10: Digital Media Supply Chain

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

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In this episode, Tom Ohanian introduces a completely new concept for the media & entertainment industry: the idea of the digital media supply chain. In addition to the audio podcast, there is also a PDF transcript of the podcast. iTunes subscribers can view this directly in iTunes and visitors to the blog may download it using the link below.

 
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DMG #9: Security

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

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In this episode of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian describes how integrated security is part of any complete digital media distribution management system.

 
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DMG special edition: NAB 2007 wrap-up

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

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In this special podcast, Tom Ohanian describes the success Signiant had at April’s NAB 2007 trade show. Tom also outlines the real-world broadcast file-based workflow demonstration of Digital Media Distribution Management Suite that was given live at the show. Tom also promises that we’ll have a recording of the demo for this podcast, so stay tuned.

If you have any comments or questions, please email us at editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com.

 
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DMG special edition: NAB 2007 preview

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

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Just in time for your plane ride to Las Vegas, Tom Ohanian has recorded a quick podcast with his tips on what’s going to be hot at the National Association of Broadcasters 2007 trade show. NAB 2007 is running April 14 – 19, with exhibits open from April 16.

Please stop by Signiant’s booth (SU9027) to see Digital Media Distribution Management Suite, watch our cartoon and to meet Tom and the rest of the Signiant crew in person.

 
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DMG #7: Automation

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

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Episode #7 is an overview of Signiant Digital Media Distribution Management Suite’s automation capabilities.

Not to be confused with “broadcast automation,” Tom Ohanian describes how tasks are combined into workflows which are then managed across the enterprise by Signiant.

As always, we welcome your feedback and comments to editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com or on the blog at www.digitalmediagalaxy.com

 
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DMG #6: WAN Acceleration

Monday, March 5th, 2007

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In episode six of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian talks about the fundamental difference between simple WAN acceleration of large content transfers and the capabilities of Signiant’s software, which combines acceleration with central management.

We welcome your comments on this podcast. Please post comments here on the blog, or email editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com.

 
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DMG #5: Signiant Digital Media Distribution Management

Friday, February 9th, 2007

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In this podcast, Tom Ohanian introduces the specific capabilities of Signiant Digital Media Distribution Management. This is the first of a series of more technically-oriented podcasts which will describe the capabilities and features of this important new solution for managing the explosion of digital media and formats.

 
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DMG #4: DRM…the sky isn’t falling

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

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In this episode Tom Ohanian discusses the real impact of next-generation DRM on consumers. Given the high level of discussion and anxiety taking place as a result of the publication of Peter Gutman’s white paper and Security Now! episodes 73, 75, and 75 on this topic and Tom’s long experience in the media and entertainment industries, we hope to offer a more balanced view of next-gen DRM.

Thanks for listening, and as always, we welcome your comments to editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com

 
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DMG #3: User-generated content

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

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In this, our third podcast, Tom Ohanian explores the impact of user-generated content on the broadcast industry. It’s a fascinating discussion of the changes and impacts the explosion of media has unleashed on the media and entertainment industry.

I want to apologize to our audience for the audio quality of DMG #3. I made some last-minute changes to the settings on our recording rig and something happened to cause us to get a low-quality recording. I decided to put this into the feed in spite of the audio problems because Tom’s perspective is so illuminating.

I hope to have the audio issues cleared up for our next episode.

Thank you for listening and/or subscribing and make sure to tell your friends about the Digital Media Galaxy podcast. As always, we welcome comments and feedback to editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com

 
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DMG #2: Central management

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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In episode two of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian elaborates on why central management of digital media distribution workflows is an absolute requirement for effective collaboration and coordination in the the entertainment industry’s production ecosystem. We welcome your feedback. Please email editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com or post a comment on our blog at www.digitalmediagalaxy.com

 
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DMG #1: file-based workflows

Monday, December 18th, 2006

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Our initial podcast is now online. We hope you like it…and that you’ll let us know what you think. We had originally intended for the podcast to be about 10 minutes. But, as you’ll hear, we had so much to say, we ran for about 30 minutes. That tells us there’s a lot more we want to say…so we’ll be back with another podcast very soon that expands on the subjects discussed here.

In this episode, Tom Ohanian describes what he means when he talks about “file-based workflows” and why this change in the way media and entertainment companies work is so incredibly important in today’s competitive marketplace.

 
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