Conference Theme

Digital Storage—  Enabling New Content Markets for Uncertain Times

Come to the one-day Creative Storage Conference to make valuable connections and to participate in the latest trends and requirements for digital storage to serve creative minds and create new and growing markets.

Conference Program
(click here for the complete Agenda including speakers and keynotes)

Keynotes by Shinobu Fujihara: SNIA and IBM Japan and Randall Dark, Randall Dark Productions

5 Sessions Spread Over the Day Cover:

Electronic Content Delivery and Digital Storage
This session explores the evolving requirements of traditional and non-traditional content electronic delivery markets. This includes video on demand, cable and satellite distribution and network distribution. It also explores digital storage opportunities in video and content downloading and social networking.

Storage for Professional Content Editing and Post Production
This session explores direct attached, networked storage as well as grid and other advanced storage architectures to support non-linear editing, post production and content capture and creation.

Digital Storage for Archiving and Preservation
This session explores the expanding options for digital storage for content preservation and archiving. Long term retention of content is a big driver of storage growth in the media and entertainment industry and includes remote storage as well as on-site options with various physical storage media.

Case Study: Digital Storage in the Visual Effects Society Awards
In 2008, the Visual Effects Society created a complete awards submission digital ingest, presentation and evaluation workflow for its annual Awards program featuring submissions from visual effects practitioners from around the world. This included online submissions from anywhere in the world, electronic transfer for nominations, as well transcoding the content into 5 different resolutions of Windows media and 5 different Quicktime resolutions to support remote viewing and voting on 25 categories of awards. Nearly 300 entries were submitted and 96 entries overall were nominated.
The storage system used supported secure access. This workflow greatly enhanced the entire process from submissions, to vetting and on to the nominations and to the final Online View and Vote where members could view the nominees in HD as well as at lower bit rates. This panel will discuss the methodologies used to set up the entire process, including storage requirements, through to the secure viewing and voting system and the final tabulations until the envelopes were opened onstage at the Awards.

Content for the Consumer
This session explores the requirements that consumers have for digital content now and in the future. Future demand requires content availability from many sources: physical content distribution, electronics distribution through the web, traditional electronic content distribution. Find out about the future use of content by the ultimate end users.

Why you should attend!

• Don't miss this 3rd Annual conference on Creative Storage!
• Higher resolution in theatres and in homes and mobile devices are driving enormous growth in demand for digital storage.
• Between 2008 and 2013 we expect a substantial increase in the required digital storage capacity used in the rich media market according to a study from Coughlin Associates.
• Hear how major media equipment suppliers and entertainment industry customers use digital storage technology in all aspects of content creation and distribution.
• Discover how to combine and leverage optical storage technology with new opportunities in the digital media market.
• Find out how digital storage plays a role in new content distribution and marketing opportunities for a rapidly evolving market.
• See presentations on digital storage and digital acquisition and capture, non-linear editing, compositing and special effects.
• Find out how to convert and preserve content digitally and protect it in long term dependable archives.
• Be at the juncture of digital storage and the next generation of storage for the professional media market.
• Find out how digital storage can help you profit in the professional media market in turbulent times.
• Meet folks that can help you further your business and your career!
  (in Conjunction with the 2008 NAB Show).

Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! There will be many great giveaways for attendees, including SanDisk microSD memory module kits to the first 50 paid attendees.
Grand Prize: A Focus Enhancement FS-5 Portable DTE Recorder. The FS-5 brings direct to edit recording to your HDV or DV camcorder and enables adding customer metadata while recording! A $1900 value!

Contact us Regarding Speaking and Sponsorship Opportunities
for the 2008 Conference (in Conjunction with the 2008 NAB Show)

Phone:  408-871-8808, Email:  tom@tomcoughlin.com

Conferences produced by The Entertainment Storage Alliance and Coughlin Associates (Creative Storage Conference^SM of Coughlin Associates)

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