SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal ( Volume: 128, Issue: 7, August 2019)
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Nine Years of Media and Entertainment Digital Storage Surveys
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- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
- Volume
- 128, No. 7, pp. 1–10
- Abstract
- Digital storage plays a significant role in the professional media and entertainment (M&E) industry. Digital storage for the M&E industry has demanding characteristics that are often very different from typical IT storage because of the performance requirements of realtime video in capture, editing, and post-production, as well as distribution. These trends are driving demand for flash memory in post-production as well as content delivery. On the other hand, the growing archive of long-tail digital content and increasing digitized historical analog content is swelling the demand for cold as well as warm archives using tape, optical discs, and hard drive arrays. The growth of IP-based workflows is driving demand for block, file, and object storage for various M&E applications. As a result, the prices of digital storage have declined. At the same time, the availability of digital storage hardware, software, and online services has increased. This brings up the question of what sort of storage systems and services do M&E professionals require for various parts of their workflows. What drives their storage decisions and how are these demands changing over time? Coughlin Associates, Inc. has been conducting a survey of M&E professionals from all over the world on various digital storage topics for nine years. The surveys were broken down into several usage segments to reflect broad differences in storage requirements, including content capture, editing and post-production, content delivery, as well as archiving and digital preservation. Results from the nine years of this survey will be compared to show changing storage trends for these various M&E applications, including storage capacity growth, cloud storage, flash memory, hard disk drive, tape, and optical disc demand. These surveys served as a basis for our annual Digital Storage in Media and Entertainment report, and some projections on the drivers and growth of digital storage will give insights on the future of digital storage for the M&E industry.
- Publication Date
- 2019-08-01
- DOI
10.5594/JMI.2019.2918035- ISSN
- Print:
1545-0279| Electronic:2160-2492 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2019.2918035
- Author(s)
- Thomas Coughlin
- Keyword(s)
- Storage, Flash Memory, Hard Disk Drive, Media and Entertainment, Optical Disc
- Copyright
- © 2019 SMPTE
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- 2014 Survey Summary for Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment [Active]
- 2014 Survey Summary for Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment [Active]
- 9 Years of Media and Entertainment Digital Storage Surveys [Active]
- Coughlin Associates. [Online]. Available: https://tomcoughlin.com/tech-papers/ EXTERNAL
- The Digital Dilemma 2, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Hollywood, CA, 2012. [Online]. Available: https://www.oscars.org/science-technology/sci-tech-projects/digital-dilemma-2The growth rate of digital tape is much less than that of hard disk drives if we include external HDDs, local network storage, and most of the cloud storage. Hard disk drives, either in local storage systems and devices or through network and remote storage, appear to be undergoing a significant growth spurt. Note, though, that there are Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape-based cloud archives now available on the market, so actual cloud archive storage will likely be split between tape and HDDs. It is also clear from the survey that there is a segment of this market that will continue to rely on optical media for digital archives. Other Archiving Trends Some other observations from the archive and preservation section of the survey are shown in Table 14. Figure 9 shows the survey trends for archiving on private or public clouds. The year 2018 may indicate significant growth in the use of clouds for archiving. Conclusion M&E workflows have many different storage requirements. Content capture, post-production, content delivery, and archiving have different needs for latency, data rates, and storage capacity. Furthermore, the best combination of performance and cost can often be attained by a combination of various storage technologies in a storage system. The survey of M&E professionals’ use of various storage technologies over a nine-year period shows how these storage requirements have changed for these different applications. Would Use Private of Public Cloud for Archiving 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 EXTERNAL
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