For Immediate Release

CONTACT:Tom Coughlin

Coughlin Associates

(408) 978-8184

CONTACTAndy Marken

AGENCY:Marken Communications

(408) 986-0100

Storage Visions Sessions Focus on Professional Media and Entertainment

Awards Submissions Close on November 14, 2012

San Jose, CA—October 31, 2012—The 2013 Storage Visions Conference will feature sessions focusing on the storage needs and new technologies offered to media and entertainment professionals. The conference will be held at the Riviera HotelConvention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 67, 2013 by the Entertainment Storage Alliance. Following is a listing of three sessions that should be of particular interest to M&E professionals. Yoshiaki Shishikui of NHK in Japan will give a keynote talk on storage requirements for 8K X 4K pixel resolution video shot during the 2012 Summer Olympics. SV 2013 includes many other sessions dealing with important storage technologies and applications that will impact the development of the M&E industry.

Session A1: Somewhere a Space for Us: Looking for Storage for High Resolution Content Capture and Production

Moderator: Pallab Chatterjee, Media and Entertainment Tech

This session addresses digital storage and the requirements for capturing, rendering, editing and archiving content. File-based and even object-based workflows, 4K and even 8K content, as well as stereoscopic video are transforming the media industry. Larger content libraries support an increasing diversity of content delivery methods while raw video content of several petabytes is not uncommon for a single project.

Speakers:

  • Bob Murphy, DataDirect Networks
  • Jim Jonez, Dot Hill
  • Tracy Doyle, HDS
  • Steven Cohen, Aberdeen LLC
  • Alex Grossman, Active Storage

Panelists:

  • Chris Haeffner, Newer Tech
  • Tracy Spitler, IntelliProp

Session F1: What we want: A Conversation about Storage for Professional Media and Entertainment Professionals

Moderator: Mary Yurkovic, Createsphere

Panelist:

  • Ken Brady, Turner Broadcast
  • Christy King, UFC
  • Justin Stottlemyer, Shutterfly

Session B2: Data Where art Thou?: Long Term Content Protection and Archiving

Moderator: Robin Harris, Storage Mojo

High resolution content won’t last forever unless content owners create a rational archive that includes good metadata and digital asset management. Today’s archives serve as active libraries for a multitude of content distribution networks as well as long-term content repositories. As the complexity and resolution of digital content increases, archiving technology will play a bigger role in making sure today’s content survives. This session will help you with your long term data protection plan.

Speakers:

  • Paul Speciale, Amplidata
  • Ed Childers, IBM
  • Russ Kennedy, Cleversafe
  • Robert Herzan, Rorke Data
  • Hossein ZiaShakeri, Spectra Logic

Panelists:

  • Fernando Moreira, Quotium
  • TBD, Oracle

Award submissions are now being accepted (until November 14, 2012) for the prestigious Visionary Awards for digital storage related products, services and companies to be presented at the 2013 Storage Visions Conference at:

Active Storage is a Diamond Sponsor. Intel and SanDisk are Platinum Sponsors. Aspera, Smart Storage Systems and Symform are Silver Sponsors. Bronze Sponsors include Amplidata, Cadence, Marvell, SNIA SSSI, Skyera, and Toshiba. Exhibitors are Drive Savers, FlexStar, IDT, Raidundant, Nimble Storage and Xendata. Our official News Wire sponsor is PR Newswire (VPO).

Organization and media sponsors include: Alien Babel, AVSystems Magazine, Burnworld, Computer Outlook, Coughlin Associates, Createsphere, Davis Consulting Asia,DCIA, Digital Production Buzz, Ethernet Alliance, FCIA, Flash Memory Summit, Fierce Cable, HDDFA, HomeToys, IDC, IEEE CNSV, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, LTO Alliance, Media and Entertainment Tech, Media Tech Association, Objective Analysis, Parks Associates, PC World Magazine, PowerSource Online, PriceG2, SCSI Trade Association, SMPTE, Storage Review, TechTarget, Trusted Computing Group, TweakTown, St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, Storagesearch.com and Telecomkh.com.

There are a limited number of sponsorships and exhibit spaces available for the 2013 Storage Visions® Conference. For information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities fill out the appropriate forms available on the conference web site: Interested parties can also call Storage Visions® at 408-978-8184 or email us at .

Conference registration is now open at: and our discounted hotel room block at the Rivera Hotel (just across from the Las Vegas Convention Center and the CES is now open at:

The Storage Visions Conference is put on by the Entertainment Storage Alliance ( and Coughlin Associates (

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