The National Association of Broadcasters held their 2018 NAB Show in April. It’s a big show: 103,000 attendees from 161 countries and over 1800 exhibitors.

There were several hot topics at the Show, among them audio-over-IP, HDR, augmented reality, AI/machine learning, and the cloud for all production stages.

Data storage wasn’t among these rarified topics, but there were primary storage, cloud storage, and archival storage exhibitors and sessions. High-performance primary storage vendors included Dell EMC Isilon and Qumulo. On-premises secondary storage came in for its share of attention in the exhibit hall, mostly active archiving tape vendors like Spectra Logic, Storage DNA, and the IBM/Sony partnership for 330TB tapes. Monetizing archives was also an active topic. Primary storage and/or archival in the cloud were there too, with vendors like Cloudian, Scality, and Caringo representing object storage.

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