Global Media and Entertainment Digital Storage Report 2020: Media Revenue is Expected to Increase About 1.2X From 2019 to 2025 - $1.8 Billion to $2.2 Billion - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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The "2020 Digital Storage for Media and Entertainment Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Capacity and performance trends as well as media projections are made for each of the various market segments. Industry storage capacity and revenue projections include direct-attached storage, cloud(including object storage), real-time as well as near-line network storage.

Data storage is a key element in the digital transformation of content creation, editing, distribution and reception. Data capacity and communication speed increases, changing form factors, lowered product prices and the growing familiarity with digital editing, digital intermediates and various forms of digital distribution are key components in the continued growth and development of entertainment.

The report analyzes requirements and trends in worldwide data storage for:

  • Entertainment Content Acquisition

  • Editing

  • Archiving and Digital preservation, as well as digital cinema

  • Broadcast

  • Satellite

  • Cable

  • Network

  • Internet

  • OTT and VOD distribution

Key Topics Covered:

  • Acknowledgements

  • The Author

  • Executive Summary

    • Key Points

  • Introduction

  • Cinema and Video Formats

  • Media and Entertainment Professional Storage Survey

  • Content Creation and Acquisition

    • Feature Film Acquisition

    • TV Production

    • Film Scanning

  • Storage Capacity Projections for Digital Content Acquisition

  • Post Production including Editing and Special Effects

    • Non-Linear Editing (NLE)

    • Post Production Storage

    • Flash Memory for Editing

    • Editing and the Cloud

    • Special Effects and Other Post Production

    • Summary Post-Production Digital Storage Capacity Demand

    • Storage Capacity and Storage Revenue Projections for NLE, Special Effects and Other Post

    • Production Activities

  • Media and Entertainment Content Distribution

    • Lower Bandwidth Richer Media Distribution Technology

    • Local Broadcast

    • Cable Distribution

    • Satellite Headend

    • TV Networks

  • Digital Cinema

  • Hard Disk Drives Used in Digital Cinema

  • Assumption for Digital Cinema Storage

  • Professional Media and Entertainment Internet Distribution

  • Video on Demand (VOD)

  • Summary of Non-Archive Entertainment and Media Storage

  • Archiving and Digital Preservation

  • Hard Disk Drives

  • Magnetic Tape

  • Optical Discs

  • Cloud and Object Archive Storage

  • Survey Archive Results

  • Digital Conversion of Older Analog Content

  • Costs of Digital Conversion

  • Costs of Long-Term Storage

  • Archiving of Digital Created Content

    • Total Archive and Preservation Storage Projections

    • Archiving Storage: Off-line, Near-Line, in the Cloud

    • Uses of Archived Content - Making an Archive ROI

    • Migration of Content to Avoid Format Obsolescence

  • Capacity Requirements by Market Segment

  • Storage Revenue Estimates by Market Segment

  • Storage Media Projections

    • Touch Rate Versus Response Time

    • Response time definition

    • Touch rate definition

    • Touch rate vs. response time

    • Technology regions

    • IO Object size curve

    • Media Projections for Media and Entertainment

  • Conclusions

  • Some Media and Entertainment Market Companies

Companies Mentioned

  • Aberdeen

  • Accusys

  • Adobe

  • Adtec

  • Advanced Industrial Computer (AIC)

  • Aframe

  • AIC

  • Akitio

  • Amazon

  • Anhsin Technology

  • Apace

  • Apple

  • Archiware

  • Ardendo

  • ARRI

  • ASACA

  • Aspera (part of IBM)

  • Atmos

  • ATTO

  • Autodesk

  • Avere

  • Avid

  • Axle AI

  • Azure

  • Backblaze

  • BDT Products

  • Bit Central

  • BitSpeed

  • Blackmagic

  • BridgeStor

  • Bright Systems

  • Broadbus

  • Buffalo

  • CalDigit

  • Canon

  • Chenbro

  • Cinedeck

  • Cintel

  • Ciphertex

  • Cisco

  • Cleversafe

  • Cloud Options

  • Cloud Sigma

  • Cloudian

  • CloudMediaHub

  • Codex

  • Commandsoft

  • Concurrent

  • Ctera

  • DataDirect Networks

  • DDN

  • DDP

  • Dell/EMC

  • Deluxe

  • Disk Archive

  • Dternity

  • Dulce

  • DVS Digital

  • EchoStreams

  • EditShare

  • Electric Pictures

  • Elgato

  • Eluv.io

  • EMC/Isilon

  • EVS

  • Exascend

  • Exelis

  • Facilis

  • Falconstor

  • Fast Forward Video

  • Fast LTA

  • FilmLight

  • Fuji Film

  • Fujifilm

  • Fujitsu

  • Fusion-io

  • G-Tech (part of WDC)

  • GB Labs

  • Google

  • GPL Technologies

  • Grass Valley

  • GRUS

  • Harmonic

  • Harris

  • HGST/WD

  • Hitachi LG

  • Hitachi Vantara

  • Hollywood Vaults

  • Huawei

  • IBM

  • IEEI TV

  • Ikegami

  • Imagine Communications

  • IMT

  • Infortrend

  • Iomega

  • Iron Mountain

  • iX Systems

  • JMR

  • Kingston

  • Kioxia

  • LaCie/Seagate

  • LSI Logic

  • Magstor

  • Marquis

  • Masstech

  • Maxell

  • Maximum Throughput

  • MBX Systems

  • Media Technology Market Partners

  • Mediacloud

  • MediaDB

  • MediaSilo

  • Mellanox (now part of nVIDIA)

  • Memnon

  • Miranda

  • mLogic

  • NetApp

  • Netgear

  • Nexenta

  • NexSan

  • Nexto

  • NTT

  • Object Storage

  • One Stop Systems

  • Open Drives

  • Optical Vaults

  • Oracle/Sun

  • OWC

  • Panasas

  • Panasonic

  • Permivault

  • Preservica

  • Proavio

  • Promax

  • Promise

  • Promise Technologies

  • Proservica

  • Pure Storage

  • QNAP

  • Qualstar

  • Quantel

  • Quantum

  • Qube

  • Qumulo

  • RAIDIX

  • Raidundant

  • Red

  • ReelData

  • Rohde and Schwarz

  • Rorke Data

  • Ross Video

  • Sagecloud

  • Samsung

  • SAN Solutions

  • Sanbolic

  • SanDisk

  • Scale Logic

  • Scality

  • Scayl

  • SeaChange

  • Seagate

  • Seagate Technologies

  • SGI

  • SNS

  • SolaraTec

  • Sonnet

  • Sony

  • Spectra Logic

  • StorageDNA

  • StorByte

  • StorCentric

  • Storiant

  • SuperMicro

  • Synology

  • T3Media (formerly Thought Equity Motion)

  • Tape Arc

  • Telestream

  • Tiger Tech

  • Tolis Group

  • Toshiba

  • Transcend

  • USL Inc

  • Violin Memory

  • Virage

  • Virident

  • Wasabi

  • Western Digital

  • Xendata

  • XOR

  • Xstore

  • Zadara

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