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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
DMG #10: Digital Media Supply Chain [26:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
DMG #10: Digital Media Supply Chain - transcript: DownloadIn this episode of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian describes how integrated security is part of any complete digital media distribution management system.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
DMG #2: Central management [23:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Podcast Transcript: DownloadOur 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 [...]
DMG #1: file-based workflows [29:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Podcast Transcript: Download
