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Signiant receives
cybersecurity recognition
from DPP
Signiant has received the ‘Committed to
Security’ mark from the Digital Production
Partnership (DPP), demonstrating its
ongoing commitment to cybersecurity
practices for both production and broadcast
environments. Launched in October
2017, the DPP’s Committed to Security
Programme is designed to help suppliers
demonstrate their commitment to security
practices, and offers a common framework
that showcases to their customers their
ability in addressing cybersecurity. Ian
Hamilton, CTO of Signiant, added: “A strong
understanding of the ever-evolving threats
enables us to effectively apply appropriate
security functions, such as authentication,
authorisation, data integrity, data
confidentially and non-repudiation.”
TMD partners Mediaproxy
for fast access to large
compliance archives
TMD has collaborated with Mediaproxy to
create a “practical and efficient” integrated
content management workflow solution.
As a developer of compliance recording
systems for broadcasters worldwide,
Mediaproxy’s technology supports recording
of extended content, such as sports events
and legislative proceedings. Moreover, the
partnership with TMD will allow content,
typically off-air programme recordings
and metadata captured by Mediaproxy
LogServer, to be automatically added to the
TMD Mediaflex-UMS database.
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PANELLISTS
Fintan Mc Kiernan
CEO
Ideal Systems
South-east Asia
Patrick So
Regional Manager
Asia Pacific
Magna Systems &
Engineering
March 2018
Managing evolving
digital disruption
Following the emergence of over-the-top (OTT) and video-on-demand (VoD)
services, media companies are engaged in a race to get their content quickly
delivered across multiple platforms and devices. Josephine Tan finds out more
on how different storage approaches enable them to retrieve content rapidly,
accelerating time to market.
T
hree transformational elements — the
democratisation of content creation,
the rise of mobile devices, and the ex-
pectations for on-demand services —
have arisen as a result of the transition
away from film to digital media. And in
the digital era of media and entertain-
ment, media companies ought to look
towards technology not as a new op-
portunity, but as a “necessary engine”
of the media industry, where success
is often decided by how efficiently
that engine can be leveraged, Scott
Sinclair, senior analyst of Enterprise
Strategy Group (ESG), suggests in the
Dell EMC: Enabling the Digital Era in
Media and Entertainment white paper.
With the transformation to digital,
the media and entertainment industry
has become a technology industry
built upon digital products, digital
workflows and digital-based econom-
ics, Sinclair adds. “Understanding how
to build a framework for success in this
digital era requires internalising three
core concepts: Data has mass, data is
more costly to move than to store, and
advances in IT innovation have shifted
the cost paradigm.”
As the media industry continues
striving for greater realism, with higher
resolutions, greater depths, richer col-
ours and more computer-generation
elements, he