Full Name
Ken MacNeil
Job Title
President
Company
Capsule Media
Speaker Bio
Owner/operator of Creative Post Inc for over 20 years. One of Canada’s longest running post production facilities. In 2006, Ken foresaw M&E industry moving away from tapes, disks and hard-drives, to storage and delivery in what would become known as "CLOUD" technologies. That vision, and the technology he created, are what drives Capsule Media today.
Graduated Ryerson’s Radio & Television
Graduated Ryerson’s Radio & Television
Speaking At
TTC 2021 Speaker Type
Roundtable
Topic and Description
Roundtable Topic: The Future of the Cloud: Where we were, where we are, and where we’re going.
Description: The NAB Show of 2019 felt like the coming out party for “the cloud”, with AWS leading the charge. Cloud platforms seemed poised to be all things to all applications. But in the time since then we have seen competition, specialization, and new threats to infrastructure and networks. If technology maintains its better, faster, cheaper trajectory, what does that mean for the future of the cloud as we know it today? Will it allow niche players to thrive? Or will only the strong survive? Will we build our own “clouds” using open source code and COTS hardware? Could a swing back to on-prem be in the works?
Description: The NAB Show of 2019 felt like the coming out party for “the cloud”, with AWS leading the charge. Cloud platforms seemed poised to be all things to all applications. But in the time since then we have seen competition, specialization, and new threats to infrastructure and networks. If technology maintains its better, faster, cheaper trajectory, what does that mean for the future of the cloud as we know it today? Will it allow niche players to thrive? Or will only the strong survive? Will we build our own “clouds” using open source code and COTS hardware? Could a swing back to on-prem be in the works?
