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Emerging technologies that fundamentally decentralise data greatly improve business resilience and provide users the ability to stay ‘in sync’ with each other
Managing metadata in the M&E
Frank Huerta.
(monitoring and evaluation environment)
huge blocks of information. Without it, the data is nothing more than a mess of unintelligible bits and bytes. To resolve these challenges, production companies and studios are looking to manage metadata in such a way that all team members across the world can access, update and store the data as it is being manipulated. Today, synchronisation, data accessibility and performance issues can be resolved by storing certain types of metadata in a relational distributed database management system and distributing the data geographically, thus providing project contributors with the response time they need. Emerging technologies that fundamentally decentralise data greatly improve business resilience and provide users the ability to stay ‘in sync’ with each other. Unlike conventional infrastructures where scale, redundancy and performance are increased by “scaling up”, these new approaches provide an architecture where capabilities are added by ‘scaling out’ or simply adding identical ‘nodes’. These systems automatically store data across nodes and deliver information when and where it’s needed. Information is replicated across multiple nodes to ensure availability and if a node fails, users are rerouted to other nodes so that productivity doesn’t diminish. In the entertainment industry, geographically distributed databases have the potential to automatically synchronise metadata, thus improving latency issues and enhancing the collaborative efforts of production teams. Recently, there’s been a tendency to consolidate data centres. The assumption is that consolidated data centres allow organisations to better control resource costs. Concerns a &?WBf??&??G??BW&f?&??6R?f?"W6W'2??&V??FR??6F???2?&R?gFV??fW&????VB???v?B?bF?RW?V?6R?B6???W??G??b6??Wf??rv??&?66?R??WBv?F?G&F?F????FF&6R?6F???2??b??F?R&WV?&VB??g&7G'V7GW&R6????V?G2&W6?FVB??6??&V?V?6?fR??FW2?F?R??FW26?V?B&R?6VB??6????B&V??FR??6F???2?6??6Rf?'GV?????bF?R7W?'F??r??g&7G'V7GW&Rv?V?B&R??6?VFVB????FR?W&f?&??6R?B&W7??6?fV?W72v?V?B??&?fRBV6?6?FR???v???r7W?'B6?7G2v?V?B?6?&R&VGV6VB&V6W6R66??r??F??2v??2?V6?V6?W"F??v?F?G&F?F????FW????V?G2?2&?GV7F???f6??F?W2w&?r???FR6?&RV6??FFVBBF?B6?FR?F?F???&v??6F???2&Rw&W7F??rv?F?v?2F?F?RGf?FvR?b6??VBV6????72?v???R???F????r6??G&???bF?V?"FF???r?2F?RF??Rf?"FV6?????w?F?BV?&?W2?F???2f?"FW?????r???&V?6R???F?R6??VB??"6??&??F????b&?F??F??2?2F?R?W?B?6R??G'V?V?&??rFWfV??W'2F?FV?fW"6??FV?BF?B?26??6?7FV?B???v??f??&?R?B67W&FR?v???R???F????r?V?7F?2?B&?'W7B??g&7G'V7GW&Rv?F???F?R6??7G&??G2?bF?v?B'VFvWG2?BF??Rg&?W2??g&???VW'F?24T??B6??f?V?FW"?bG&?4?GF?6R???v??R??^( ?&R????F?"???????W"??"?2F?FW6?v?6?&7FW'2f?"?W6???rf????v???R??W"6?V?FW''B????F?FW6?v?2F?R&6?w&?V?B?2??Rv?&?F??vV?F???F?W"'F?7G2&?V?BF?Rv?&?B&Rv?&???r?&?GV6??rF?RF???wVR?"66?&R?v???RW?V7WF?fW2????2?vV?W2??W6?v?BWFFW2?'WBv?B?V?2v?V?F?RF?&V7F?"FV6?FW2??26?&7FW"6??V?B?fR&VB6??'B???7FVB?b?V???r??S???rF???R7??6?&???6RWF'?FW2?bFFvV?W&FVBF?????F?F?( ?2FF?6V?G&?2v?&?B?F?W6RG?W2?bFF?7??6?&???6F????77VW26???R?"'&V?f?????N( ?2???'F?BF?V?7W&R??'F?W2??&??V7B&Rv?&???rv?F?F?R??7B7W'&V?Bf??W27&?72F?Rv??&R???v??r?WFFF( B?"F?RFF&?WBFF( B???V?F??VF??Bf???&?GV7F???V?f?&???V?G2??2&V6??RF6??bW?2&??'F???2?v?F??V?F??VF?FV??G2??7&V6??r?Bf???6??gF??rF?F?v?F???N( ?2??B?GFW"?b?bF??2FFv???&R7F?&VB??F?R6??VB??N( ?2v?V???B??6R?N( ?2F?W&R?6V7W&??r???v??r?B&?f?F??r???VF?FR66W72F?F??2FF?2???"6??6W&??66?&F??rF??Wr?&?WB&W?'B'?G&?7&V?7??&?WB&W6V&6??F?Rv??&?&?rFF?&?WBv2v?'F?U4Bb?2&???????#"?B?2W?V7FVBF?&V6?CC??2&?????'?#??2F?Rf??V?R?bF?v?F?FFw&?w2?F?R76?6?FVB?WFFFF?B7F?&W2F?R???'F?B??w&VF?V?G2?bF?R&?vvW"FF7G&V?2??27'V6????F?76V??F??p????wwr?'&?F67G&??R?6???VwW7B#0???