Setting Up a Server Room on a Budget: A Do-it-Yourself Guide By Paul Holstein Controlling operational costs is always a challenge, but amid the current recession budgets are tighter than ever. While it's possible to make smart decisions and cut a few extras to spend less, one thing most companies can't nix is a reliable server and a cool, secure room in which to keep it. In this day and age, it's nearly impossible to do business without a solid network infrastructure, and server rooms have become the nerve centers of our businesses. But despite its vital importance, a server room doesn't necessarily have to break the bank. ...Read More »

Content Insider #107 - The Perfect Storm By Miles Weston The Internet, Web 2.0 and our relentless need to express ourselves has created a growing volume of content. The challenge is where do we store it? Why should we store it? Does anyone really care about it? ...Read More »

Shining Technology intros CitiDISK SSD at NAB 2008 By John Virata Shining Technology showcased at NAB 2008 what it calls the smallest and lightest solid state hard disk drive for DV editing workflows. Dubbed the CitiDISK SSD, the 32GB device weighs just six ounces and is the company's first product in the Solid State disk format. ...Read More »

The Toronto Star Rolls Out HD Content with the FS-100 and Panasonic AG-HVX200 First created in 1892, the Toronto Star is Canada's largest daily newspaper, reaching more than 2.9 million readers each week. Like most mainstream media companies, the Star looked to build its web presence in order to stay competitive and expand its offerings in today's Internet age. In 2006, the paper launched an initiative to aggressively build up its multimedia department. ...Read More »

Digital Archiving Circa 2008: Addressing Long-Term Data Storage and Preservation Requirements By Heidi Biggar, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group Exponential data growth and a seemingly unending list of corporate governance and regulatory requirements dictating longer data retention periods have organizations of all types and sizes re-thinking their strategies for digital archiving. Organizations that aren?t thinking along these lines expose themselves to potentially significant risk. ...Read More »

Quantum Corp.'s Ingo Fuchs By Michael Ames Broadcast facilities have huge amounts of data to manage and distribute, from the data being generated everyday to libraries of the past, all that data needs to be stored somewhere. DMN spoke with Ingo Fuchs, Product Marketing Manager for Quantum Corp., to get his take on the latest storage trends, as well as the solutions that Quantum offers to broadcast facilities. ...Read More »

Content Insider #82 By Miles Weston NAB was all about lust -- lust for more video fidelity...lust for new, easy-to-use video post production tools...more storage space! While others at NAB saw new opportunities to produce and sell more content to more people in more ways, all we saw was a dramatic need for additional storage and a way to keep track of all of that content. Finding the content once it is stored is still a work-in-progress! ...Read More »

The State of Next Generation DVD By Miles Weston The noise on which side is ahead in blue technology storage is becoming deafening. Is there a winner? Will there be a "winner"? Does the consumer really care? ...Read More »

G-Technology, Inc. Introduces G-SPEED eS, new G-RAID storage solutions at NAB 2007 By Michael Ames G-Technology at NAB demonstrated several new additions to its storage family line. At the booth, Roger Mabon, president of the stylish external drive manufacturer gave DMN a quick tour of the new products demonstrated at NAB, specifically the G-Speed eS and the G-RAID(2) 2000, which is designed to support editors working with multiple streams of DV, HDV, and DVCPRO HD clips, as well as uncompressed SD and Apple ProRes 422 video editing workflows. ...Read More »

Apple Introduces Final Cut Studio 2 to a Packed House By Heath McKnight Apple, Inc. Sunday announced to a packed house Final Cut Studio 2, with major upgrades including Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, SoundTrack 2 and Compressor 3. Apple also introduced its own color grading and finishing software called, appropriately enough, Color. However, there is no upgrade to DVD Studio Pro, which is still on version 4, released in 2005. ...Read More »