Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.

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The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.

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"Sony needs to show its next system is ready for the future, and this includes some crossover play with smartphones, digital distribution, cloud storage to help minimize the need for physical media and a free-to-play ecosystem that can bring in new gamers, " he said.

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New kinds of storage media, such as memory cards and minidiscs, will also soon come equipped with a digital lock.

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These companies have had a presence in several parts of the professional media and entertainment value chain (particularly in archiving and supporting near line storage) but digital production storage has been dominated by smaller firms that made specialized storage products that supported the low content latency and high streaming quality of service that are unique to high resolution video workflows.

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