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Adobe Names Support Partners as a Certified Service Provider
ADOBE NAMES SUPPORT PARTNERS AS FIRST CERTIFIED SERVICE PARTNER Media industry’s leading cloud specialists receive Adobe seal of approval Support Partners, the media industry’s leading cloud specialist, has been named by Adobe as one of its first...
Business Continuity – Remote Media Production
Over the last few weeks, we have had several requests from clients wanting to understand what are the options on the market for remote video production. The good news is there are many. The bad news is there is no 'one size fits all' solution. In this blog, we will...
Looking for the Silver Lining
According to the World Meteorological Organisation, there are 10 different types of cloud, each of which can be divided further into sub-types. They range from the cirrus, the thin floaty clouds which generally serve only to make the sky look beautiful to the...
Integration Means Acceleration: Blog 2 Edit and Enhance
Having to leave Premiere Pro in the middle of an edit can really disrupt the creative process. In fact, The New York Times has reported that it can take 25 minutes to get back on track after every interruption. Integrated panels and plug-ins bring the power of bespoke...
Integration Means Acceleration: Blog 1 Adobe CC
A look at the Adobe suite of products and how integrations can speed up the post-production process, using the Broadcast industry as Best Practice. Broadcast is one of the most demanding production environments. Quality and consistency are critical. Delivery deadlines...
Building Best of Breed with Adobe
Support Partners and Adobe have been working in a close partnership for a long-time, in fact, it was in 2013 when we started migrating our clients from FCP7 to Premiere. As of today, we provide first, second and third line support for thousands of seats of Adobe...
95% of people use “the cloud” every day – but what is it?
As a cloud-first company, we have spent the last 15+ years helping many of our clients migrate not only their data but also their workflows and services into a cloud environment. In today’s world, people are using the cloud all the time – sometimes without even...
Big Data: Data Lake vs Data Warehouse
Big Data: Data Lake vs Data Warehouse Dealing with big data can be a minefield! The volume of data being created on a daily basis is growing exponentially and as our clients are only too aware, the storage and safety of this data is of paramount importance. As more...
Cloud vs LTO
Cloud vs LTO Traditionally, media companies have used Linear Tape Open (LTO) for media back up as well as long-term archive. However, as the amount of data that companies produce increases and costs of LTO operation and maintenance continue to rise, companies are...
The new LTO-8 system doesn’t read LTO-6 – and nobody’s talking about it.
There's been a lot of interest in IBM's new LTO-8 drive, onto which you can write 12TB per tape, or up to 30TB at 2.5:1 compression - and at high speed (300MBps / 750MBps). However, when you look at the Data Sheet, you see that it only supports the reading of LTO-7...