Quote of the Day: "You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame." ~ Erica Jong
On this Day: In 1996, NASA scientists announce they have discovered a Martian fossil.
Consoles Shed Equipment and Weight With less emphasis on hardware, production equipment is getting smaller and more compact. This spreads to furniture consoles for broadcast control rooms.
Audio Cable Impedance: Use Digital Cable for Digital Applications As wasteful as it sounds, if you have a digital plant and still have lots of analog patch cords or older cables with XLR connectors that seemingly fit, it's best to either clearly mark the analog cables in an unmistakable way or to simply get rid of them.
"High Speed Bridge to Cloud Storage" is a new ebook from Signiant that introduces Signiant Flight (previously known as SkyDrop), a SaaS solution for accelerated transfer of content to and from cloud storage.
"Using Cloud Playout to Simplify Your Disaster Recovery Plans" from Imagine Communications describes how using its Cloud Disaster Recovery system can provide private or public cloud-based disaster recovery for broadcast and video playout operations.