Old media — print, radio and film — are finally seeing that Silicon Valley is not some existential threat. Cloud technology can assist them as it has other industries, according to Brian Lillie (pictured), chief customer officer and executive vice president of technology services at Equinix Inc. “Over the last two years, I think they’ve been the fastest-accelerating ...

Who would have thought the entertainment business would find a use for complex data science algorithms? Yet that is the story at this week’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. And what’s more surprising is that Hollywood may have data lessons for the industry. Lisa Martin (@Luccazara) (pictured, right) and Jeff Frick (pictured, left) (@JeffFrick), co-hosts of ...

Netflix and other movie theater alternatives are now millennials’ preferred movie-viewing experience. For studios to compete in these new channels, they must deliver more than a 90-minute reel, according to Joan Wrabetz (pictured), vice president of marketing at HGST Inc., a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp. “They recognize that they have this core content. They have to ...

Disruptive media startups are jazzing the old order of established companies at this week’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. But both camps agree that the internet’s open environment can be an ally or a foe. The convergence of media, entertainment and technology, known as The M.E.T. Effect, is fueled by internet connectivity and integrated systems, opening ...

Agility? Check. Efficiency? Check. Cheap Storage? Eh. The cloud may have a lot going for it, but its storage cost might need to come down for some companies with permanently expanding data, such as the Sundance Institute. Sundance has 35 years worth of films, festival footage and other data to save that grows each year, according ...

The debate over whether legacy applications should go into containers is on, with some saying virtual machines are a better fit than the more modular method of containing software. Others argue that businesses benefit from containerizing all applications in ways they may not yet expect. Managed service provider KMicro Tech Inc. was tasked with modernizing a legacy application ...

Company X wants to move to cloud, so it moves its own hardware into someone else’s data center who then connects it to Amazon Web Services while Company X continues to manage it. The method to this madness results in data sovereignty standards compliance or perhaps better connected Internet of Things devices, said Eric Pan (pictured), senior director of global ...

Docker Inc. wants to teach old applications new tricks with its Modernize Traditional Applications program for putting legacy software into containers. But users who believe their legacy applications will reincarnate into cloud-native ones may be disappointed, said Yaron Haviv (pictured), founder and chief technical officer at data analytics platform iguazio Systems Ltd. There is widespread confusion about virtual machines ...

At this week’s DockerCon in Austin, Texas, open-platform provider for application management Docker Inc. charted its desired territory, which straddles open-source and enterprise and reaches far in both directions. While the newly unveiled Moby Project feeds its experimental developer demographic, other announcements promise to bear Docker into large- and medium-sized businesses on the backs of legacy companies. ...

What better way for Docker Inc. to make its enterprise ambitions known than by bringing customers Visa Inc. and MetLife Inc. on stage at DockerCon in Austin, Texas, according to Stephen Foskett (pictured), organizer in chief of Tech Field Day, days held throughout the year that bring together information technology product vendors and independent thought leaders. “Docker is not only ...