This was my second year attending the NAB Show, which brings together more than 100,000 attendees and 1,700 exhibitors to check out the latest technologies and learn about the biggest trends in the broadcast, media and entertainment industry. While the range of companies exhibiting and attending at the show varies greatly, I picked up on five key themes that kept coming up again and again, during conversations with media and around the show floor.
- Cloud, cloud, cloud. At NAB 2014, the talk of the show seemed to be the cloud. But, cloud waseverywhere this year. PAN client Signiant successfully broke through the noise and capitalized on the buzz around this hot industry trend, speaking to hundreds of customers and dozens of reporters during NAB about updates to its SaaS accelerated file transfer solutions. Sports Video Group Editor Karen Hogan wrote that “talk of the cloud filtered through the Las Vegas Convention Center this week, and although the concept may still seem a bit ambiguous to some, companies like Signiant are leveraging the cloud’s capabilities in very real ways.” In fact, Signiant won an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering for these innovations. The Emmy was proudly displayed at the booth and drew many visitors for photo opps.
