A 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 studio, television, and media production workflows Illustrations, standards, tables, and practical summaries serve as handy reference tools
