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April 1, 2020April 30, 2020

Webinar: Next Generation M&E Workflows for Remote Workers

Since the pandemic, remote working is no longer optional, it is mandatory. Unfortunately, M&E workflows are ill-suited for remote work situations.

Traditional approaches to previewing, editing, staging and archiving large media files are unworkable over the Internet. With traditional workflows, production would grind to a halt as staff wait on long download / upload times, that is, if they can even access the asset in the first place.

Employee access from home creates potential security vulnerabilities. First and foremost, IT has to ensure unauthorized parties do not have access to proprietary assets and that communication links are secure.

Join us on Tuesday, April 14th at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST / 7pm CET, to learn how Cloudian and Storage Made Easy are defining the next generation of M&E workflows for remote workers.

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February 16, 2020February 18, 2020

Using AWS Lambda to Automatically Sync Metadata With S3 Events

The Enterprise File Fabric indexes Amazon S3 metadata to provide a number of enhanced file services over S3 object storage including reading/browsing and searching. The File Fabric has its own indexing engine to provide these services.

Applications may update/upload/delete objects through the File Fabric or in a bi-modal fashion directly through S3 APIs. When objects are updated directly using S3 APIs the File Fabric metadata must also be updated. There are a number of ways that the metadata can be updated:

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July 17, 2019

Ansible: Time series data in S3 API without HEADing metadata

In my previous article I detailed sending datasets to non-AWS S3 object storage. While working on that project I ran into another issue with the aws_s3 ansible module. The lack of a HEAD operation to pull metadata from a bucket or object.

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January 11, 2019January 14, 2019

An early look at the File Content Intelligence Feature for the File Fabric for Media

The Storage Made Easy engineering team is constantly working on strengthening the File Fabric product set and one of the features they are currently working on is the File Content Intelligence feature.

The video below takes a look at the File Content Intelligence feature, how it interacts with the File Fabric’s data automation rules and how it provides value to the Media and Entertainment industry.

There is further information on the File Fabric for Media here.

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018

If data is the new oil then metadata is the refiner

Data, data everywhere….and then……what?

That is the issue with digital data. As digital data doubles very year it leads to vast quantities of unstructured data as employees create office documents, PDF’s, videos etc. Searching and classifying this data however presents a challenge particularly as the data within companies is spread across a multitude of on-cloud and on-premises systems and is simply not joined up.

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