Catching up with Dr. Thomas Coughlin of Coughlin Associates on the Critical Necessity of Storage

MY: How did you get into the storage space?

Tom: I started in graduate school studying magnetic recording. After university, I worked for several years designing heads and media for magnetic tapes, floppy discs and hard disk drives. After several engineer and management jobs at storage and storage component companies I started my own consulting company in 2000. Since then I have worked on many storage projects from storage devices and components to storage systems and applications. I also write reports and white papers and I started 2 conferences on digital storage and digital content applications: the Storage Visions Conference and the Creative Storage Conference. I have been the chair of the annual Flash Memory Summit for the last 5 years. For several years I have written a comprehensive report on digital storage in professional media and entertainment.

Colleges and Universities Determine WebDAM as the Best Choice for Digital Asset Management

WebDAM Solutions, the leader in cloud-based digital asset management (DAM), today announced record-breaking growth in higher education – results that further support the company’s reputation as the best web-based DAM provider for colleges and universities. Since 2010, the WebDAM customer base among educational institutions has more than doubled.

Digital Publishing: Join WoodWing, Picturepark and Adobe at Wednesday’s WoodWing Next Wave Event

The Next Wave Tour is a free seminar on May 23 in Los Angeles.  In just one afternoon, and at a location close by, you can learn how WoodWing help publishers to ride this wave. This seminar is targeted towards decision makers in the publishing industry and creatives and IT-specialists who are interested in high-level information on publishing to digital devices in a efficient and easy way.

Creative Storage Agenda Up with New Sponsor and Last Call for Storage Valley Supper Club

1) The 2012 Creative Storage Conference (CS 2012) announces that WARP Mechanics, a storage networking technology company will be a Gold Sponsor and the conference bag sponsor.  In addition the preliminary conference agenda with speakers from many storage and media and entertainment companies is now on-line.

Your Guide to the DAM Road Map Part 1

Much has been written, discussed, presented, and illustrated to summarise Digital Asset Management (DAM) and its impact in a world exploding with content. But it never does any harm to remind oneself of the key criteria for success, tips to follow on the journey, and pitfalls to avoid. And just where is DAM heading? What trends should you look out for?

Cloud based Cinegy Workflow solution installed at ChaulaTV in Latvia

Cinegy are pleased to announce the installation of Cinegy Workflow at ChaulaTV, Latvia

Making the DAM connection: Keep Your Options Open

One the core values of a Digital Asset Management system is, of course, the concept of connecting people to shared data (video/images/graphics/metadata) in a fast and easy way. It is important to think further about the idea of sharing data, and realize that no matter how thorough your DAM might be in ingesting, archiving and delivering material, at some point the content inside of a DAM has to connect with a system outside if itself.

hVault is Platinum Sponsor of 2012 Creative Storage Conference

The 2012 Creative Storage Conference (CS 2012) announces that hVault, a new holographic optical storage start-up will be a Platinum Sponsor, supporting an evening reception at the event on June 26, 2012 and showing their technology to provide cost effective long media life content archives.

Interesting White Paper: The IMPORTANT ROLE OF DATA IN MEDIA

It is all about People, Process and Technology.

Commercial Exploitation of Digital Assets

As a continuation on the theme of my previous article on Finding Inspiration from Metadata Standards, I wanted to discuss the challenges surrounding the development of metadata models for the commercial exploitation of digital assets.

Innovation and Inspiration at NAB

While walking the show floor last week at NAB (http://www.nabshow.com/2012/default.asp) it seems like just about every solution provider on the show floor is now offering a Digital Asset Management solution. But on further investigation, what some of them are really offering is not so much of a DAM solution as a file store solution… not the real deal in my opinion. I don’t think they truly understand the complexities of DAM. However, for some of the DAM solution providers who were present at NAB, it was good to see them pushing the limits of their solution and adapting to the shift in how we create, interact and leverage content and deliver content. I did take note of your progress! Though time is always so limited at here are some interesting innovations and inspiration from some solution providers who I was able to connect with.

Not just Searching: Finding is the Key to Effective Business” is focus of 6th Annual Photo Metadata

The sixth annual International Photo Metadata conference, titled will be held in London, on May 17, 2012 in conjunction with the annual Congress of the European picture agency association CEPIC. The focus will be on technologies to improve search results for images, and on methods and systems for identifying and finding the rightsholder of an image if the copyright notice is not available.

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