SAN JOSE — The Creative Storage Conference (www.creativestorage.org) will be held on June 23rd at the DoubleTree Hotel West Los Angeles in Culver City, CA. CS2016 brings together vendors, end users, researchers and visionaries who are focused on the growing storage demands of HD, UltraHD, 4K and HDR film production and how it is affecting every stage of the production process. The one-day event will feature a special panel session that looks at data transport and emerging models for content distribution.
Marty Shindler, president of Shindler Perspective, will moderate “Trekking to the cloud - wired, wireless, cellular enabled and satellite - looking to the future.” The panel will include David Rice, Cisco; Ben Bloom, Akamai; Don Gabriel, Echostar; and John Tkaczewski, FileCatalyst.
While competition in the broadband market has been limited in recent years, that could be changing as Google, cablecos and telcos upgrade and expand fiber offerings, providing more robust speeds and capacity to handle the ever increasing file sizes and significant growth in video streaming on a plethora of devices. Competition will also be enhanced as the spectrum auctions take place at a time when there are more users who do not have home broadband, but rely solely on their mobile carriers instead. Effective file transport is vital in both the production process, where it is not unusual for a project to enlist companies around the world as service providers, and in the distribution process, in getting content to final users, wherever they may be and on whichever device they may be using. This panel will look to the future to envision the next 3, 5, 10 and 15 years of content transport to and from cloud storage systems.