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The Impact Of Operations Transformation On Human Resources

You can read about the motives driving the transformation in TV operations including agility, the crucial role of orchestration and how video workflows can be created and consolidated, how virtualization is ready for ‘mainscreen TV’ as well as multiscreen, the potential to unify operations around adaptive bitrate streaming and the different ways in which the new operations environment will be hybrid.

The report considers how companies like Comcast, Globo, nc+, Magine, TVPlayer, Sky and Voo are using virtualization or ‘cloud’ technologies and includes insights from Parks Associates, IDC, Cisco, Ericsson and Harmonic, among others. 

From the article "The Impact Of Operations Transformation On Human Resources" by John Moulding.

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