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Welcome to YO.CTO — notes, resources and plain-spoken takes on media technology strategy. More soon.
Read moreEnhancing Content Security in Post-Production and VFX Studios – Magical VLANs
In the high-stakes world of post-production and visual effects (VFX), the confidentiality, integrity, and segregation of media content are not just operational concerns—they are contractual imperatives. All of the studios are asking for better partner capabilities around security awareness and technology structures. As productions become increasingly collaborative and geographically dispersed, the need for secure, structured […]
Read moreNavigating the Future: Our 5 Trends Shaping Media & Entertainment in 2024
Hey there, Yocto followers! Jimmy here 🚀 You’re going to love diving into the future with us. 2024 is shaping up to be another rapid dev year for the M&E industry, and we’re here to explore the tech trends that are not just transforming the scene but revolutionizing it, but most importantly for how it […]
Read moreAI is less for technologists – its loads of marketing
Ok – I could be ‘old man shaking his fist at Cloud’ but i’m really struggling with the AI thing I have 3 main points to make about AI and all three of them vary on their strength per industry, but realistically the whole buzz is bullshit generally. I have yet to find a broad […]
Read moreHey there shaky shaky…
It always comes in cycles with this industry, it expands and contracts and shifts and goes into a renaissance and then again. Dot Com, Crypto bubble, whatever. Sufficed to say, people losing roles in the tech sector is nothing new, it’s just we are at the start of it. Shaky ground. Amazon culling, Salesforce culling, […]
Read moreVendor vs Open Source – A mixture for a facility
The strife I’ll get for this will be fantastic but it needs to be said….open source software is amazing and vendor commercial software is outstanding, it just depends on the view. Planning and rolling out facilities we engage with a number of vendors and a number of their deployment teams who are flummoxed by our […]
Read morePick your team properly, don’t let the team be picked for you
Radio silence for a little while I know….we’ve been on a few amazing projects and working hard to close out some great deliverables. Lots of activity and lots of fun…and certainly a number of opportunities to flex and bend the old ‘vendor/reseller/enduser’ muscles when needed. Which is what prompted this post. I have watched, not […]
Read moreContent Security – or when the IT guy just won’t let me create how I need to create…
Having gone through MPAA, TPN and watching people who have been crypto lockered, whenever users turn to myself and the team and say “ergh this is slowing down production” or “at my last place we didn’t have this complexity of passwords” or any variant of the above I just simply grin and bear it, because […]
Read moreEnd of Quarter is BS
One of the biggest misnomers about negotiating with your vendors is that you should wait until end of quarter for ‘the best price’ – having been on all sides of the fence it doesn’t work for anyone. A few points: As a customer waiting until the end of quarter places risk on your ability to […]
Read moreKickoff!
Over the coming months we’ll be releasing some short and succinct posts designed to help inform you and your organisation on a few things. We want to get some notable discussion points out about new technology trends and some recent key learnings. We also want to get you and your company’s team some useful materials […]
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