Enterprise Content Delivery

24 Nov 2016  |  North America

Global Media and Entertainment Storage Market, Forecast to 2022

Media Content and Data Creation Continues to Drive Demand for Storage Solutions

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This research service covers the global media and entertainment storage market and discusses verticals including broadcasting, managed services, publishing, and post-production. Detailed market trend analyses, including market drivers, market restraints, technology trends, and vertical analysis, are provided. Detailed revenue forecasts are also pro...

Akamai must formulate a viable strategy to succeed in an industry that is volatile with thin margins. The company has a commoditized service offering and deals with customers that compete against it. It is challenged both by cloud providers that have more scale and ways to make money, and by competitors that have distinct CapEx advantages. Akamai i...

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As major content owners/distributors continue to bring more of their content delivery in-house, third-party CDN providers are being affected. In the case of Akamai, the key reason for the slowdown in traffic and revenue growth was a result of Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook moving a larger percentage of their traffic to their in-house delivery netwo...

Comcast launched its own commercial CDN offering in 2015 and added a new live linear streaming service that it announced at IBC 2015. The new platform provides customers the ability to easily turn-up, manage, and enable ad or subscription-supported live, over-the-top, full-time channel experiences. While a lot of vendors in the market offer platfor...

Since their launch, content owners have raised concerns over how the iPhone 6 and 6+ have made it harder for some CDNs to deliver their content to these devices with good quality. Apple’s new phones challenge CDNs by creating a perfect storm of significantly larger images and a non-negotiable requirement to deliver images generated on the fly eve...