hybrid cloud

The notion of moving away from expensive, custom solutions with multi-year buildouts and vendor lock-in isn’t new. What appears to be new going into 2022 is much faster movement away from that model thanks to a convergence of events that look to shake up the industry in a much-needed way.

As we head into 2021, it doesn’t appear companies are looking back, but rather are reflecting on what they learned and are now focused on shoring-up those workflows and tools.

Signiant is excited to announce its role in connecting Hogarth Worldwide to Google Cloud and enabling high-speed file transfers. As the industry continues to trend towards a hybrid cloud, multi-cloud paradigm, Signiant’s unique SDCX SaaS platform plays an ever-increasing role in providing agility for media companies to access best of breed services across any cloud infrastructure, public or private.

Today, Signiant announced that Mike Flathers is joining the company in the newly created role of Chief Solutions Officer. He is a member of Signiant’s senior leadership team and reports directly to CEO Margaret Craig.

As the outbreak threw our industry into chaos, it became increasingly clear that organizations would have to take major steps to evolve their production and distribution models. Rigid strategies that once felt like sure things became untenable, and the growing importance of adaptability came crashing to the fore.

From James Hattin, Founder and Creative Director of VFX Legion: The cheap and painless entry to the cloud hides many of the downsides. While moving your data into a public cloud generally has no incremental cost, transferring it out is where you can get sticker shock from egress fees.

There’s so much going on in sports production. The technological innovations around graphics and AR, the advancement of resolutions, the distribution via OTT platforms, and the integration of social media all combine to make sports production a hot and dynamic place to be right now.

As the new year approaches, there are a number of exciting M&E trends on the horizon. New competition, emerging formats and platforms, and technology advancements promise to make 2020 a dynamic and fertile year for the industry.

By utilizing a combination of cloud and on-premises storage, media enterprises are able to more closely monitor valuable data, and more easily access lifeblood content.

The high-growth trajectory of our SaaS business has continued in 2019, with Media & Entertainment customers deploying ever-larger footprints of our innovative solutions to power their mission-critical workflows.

Common across the industry: hybrid cloud/multi-cloud architectures, transitioning from custom hardware/software to multi-tenant SaaS, and managing increasingly complex global supply chains.