Digital Town Square
Rethinking Digital Archiving and Storage
ETC held a symposium on Rethinking Digital Archiving and Storage at Amazon's Santa Monica facilities with studios, archivists, and post production professionals.
Approximately 80 people from all the major Hollywood studios, archivists and post production professionals participated in the interactive forum that examined the challenges in current archiving and storage practices, the pressures to change those practices, and emerging solutions.
Pacific Interface consultant Laurin Herr set the stage by describing the current landscape faced by archivists and content creators and owners. Storage/data authority Tom Coughlin detailed the exploding archive content, and Amazon Web Services product manager Henry Zhang described how his company's services aim to create efficiencies and offer solutions.
Among the topics of focus were the impact of the increased amount of data flooding today's media and entertainment archive, how to define tiers or levels of storage, nascent technologies that offer the promise of better solutions including the cloud, DOTS, DNA and optical media, and how several studios and archives are planning for the future. Coca-Cola and Universal Pictures also presented case studies.
Amazon Web Services hosted the event, with participating sponsor Fujifilm and its Dternity digital archiving solution. The event was also sponsored by DigitalFilm Tree.
Approximately 80 people from all the major Hollywood studios, archivists and post production professionals participated in the interactive forum that examined the challenges in current archiving and storage practices, the pressures to change those practices, and emerging solutions.
Pacific Interface consultant Laurin Herr set the stage by describing the current landscape faced by archivists and content creators and owners. Storage/data authority Tom Coughlin detailed the exploding archive content, and Amazon Web Services product manager Henry Zhang described how his company's services aim to create efficiencies and offer solutions.
Among the topics of focus were the impact of the increased amount of data flooding today's media and entertainment archive, how to define tiers or levels of storage, nascent technologies that offer the promise of better solutions including the cloud, DOTS, DNA and optical media, and how several studios and archives are planning for the future. Coca-Cola and Universal Pictures also presented case studies.
Amazon Web Services hosted the event, with participating sponsor Fujifilm and its Dternity digital archiving solution. The event was also sponsored by DigitalFilm Tree.
Speakers and participants
Guillaume Aubuchon
CTO, DigitalFilm Tree
Jean Bolot
VP, Research & Innovation, Technicolor
Brian Campanotti
Director, Business Development, Oracle
Annie Chang
VP, Technology Standards & Strategy, The Walt Disney Company
Tom Coughlin
President, Coughlin Associates
Daniel De La Rosa
Director, Film Production Technologies, Universal Pictures
Nick Felder
Group Director, Film & Music Production, Coca-Cola
Laurin Herr
President, Pacific Interface
Andrea Kalas
President, Association of Moving Images (AMIA)
Joshua Kolden
Founder, Avalanche
Denis Leconte
Director, Technology, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services
Josh Rizzo
VP, Technology, 24p Dailies Lab - Sony Pictures Entertainment
Dan Rosen
CTO/Partner, Group 47
Erik Weaver
Project Manager, Cloud, ETC@USC
Konstantin Wilms
Specialist Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services
Henry Zhang
Senior Product Manager, Amazon Web Services
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