Walt Disney Studios and Microsoft inked a five-year deal to start transitioning filmmaking to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, with the goal of complete “scene to screen.” The effort is led by Disney’s StudioLAB. Walt Disney Studios chief technology officer Jamie Voris said the first step will be to move Avid editing tools into the cloud, to facilitate collaboration across locations. Microsoft U.S. president Kate Johnson noted that “we are at the tipping point for cloud in media and entertainment.”
Variety reports that, according to Voris, “working collaboratively on the same project in the cloud will also cut down on the need to store and administer many different copies of a file.” That’s significant because a single big film can produce petabytes of data, which risk “getting lost, or falling into the wrong hands.”
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