Description
Book SynopsisA practical guide to the implementation of state-of-the-art media storage systems.
Keep your media assets organized, searchable, protected, and immediately accessible with a clear understanding of the technical concepts and best practice workflows for deploying storage systems for media servers. Information is organized to focus on the principles of storage, collaborative workflow, compressed video and media formats, and associated topics that use file based workflows. A thorough understanding of the technologies is provided, accompanied by numerous illustrations, tables, examples, glossaries and additional reading suggestions.
The text and appendices are designed to provide easy to access valuable reference and historical information.
- A focus on the media serving concepts and principles employed at the enterprise level
- Practical and technological summaries of the applications and linkages between media asset management and storage technologies for stu
Trade Review
"Written especially for IT professionals involved in video production and multimedia management, this volume examines in detail the requirements of digital video and media professionals and the robust, secure and scalable storage solutions available to them. Beginning with overview material on server types, buses, disks and physical mediums, the work proceeds through a practical discussion of media specific storage issues including trans-coding and wrappers, multi-user IP storage, archives and backups, metadata and media asset management, clustering and resilience and virtualization. The work includes illustrations and tables and access to a companion website is provided."--Reference and Research Book News
"Complex media storage computer systems are employed to capture, store and retrieve moving media content on systems that will preserve the original integrity of the content over time and technological transition. This book provides detailed information related to the concepts, applications, implementation and interfaces of video file servers, intelligent storage systems, media asset management services, content distribution networks, and mission critical platforms. A tutorial and case example approach is taken to facilitate a thorough understanding of the technologies, using numerous illustrations, tables and examples. The text and appendices are designed to provide easy to access valuable reference and historical information."--Radio Magazine
Table of Contents
1: Information, Data, and Video; 2: Digital Disk Recording; 3: Video Media Servers; 4: Hard Drive Anatomy; 5: Buses, Ports, and Interfaces; 6: Sata, Sas, and Raid; 7: Solid State Disks; 8: Optical Storage Media; 9: Interchange, Transcoding, and Wrappers; 10: Ip Storage; 11: Object-Based Storage; 12: Archives, Backups, and Linear Tape; 13: Metadata and Media Asset Management; 14: Clustering; 15: Networked Storage; 16: High-Performance and Shared Storage; 17: Scalability, Extensibility, and Interoperability; 18: Storage Management; 19: Resilience, Fault Tolerance, and Virtualization
