The Microsoft Worldwide Media & Entertainment Industry team is pleased to share with you the November 2019 M&E Industry Newsletter' Transforming to a digital business and moving to the Cloud is a key theme across global Media and Entertainment companies and many industry leaders are pursuing a new paradigm by leveraging Cloud technologies, systems, and services to enable this transformation. This newsletter showcases how the Media industry leverages Microsoft technologies as well as partner solutions featuring Azure, Video Data + AI, VR/AR/ML among others to accelerate the transformation to the Cloud for digital services.

1. Media & Entertainment Industry
Newsletter
November 20, 2019
The Microsoft Worldwide Media & Entertainment Industry team is pleased to share with
you the November 2019 M&E Industry Newsletter, available to both internal and
external audiences. We encourage you to share it with your colleagues and distribute it
to your customers and partners as appropriate. As always, we welcome your input,
feedback, and suggestions!
Transforming to a digital business and moving to the Cloud is a key theme across global
Media and Entertainment companies and many industry leaders are pursuing a new
paradigm by leveraging Cloud technologies, systems, and services to enable this
transformation. This newsletter showcases how the Media industry leverages Microsoft
technologies as well as partner solutions featuring Azure, Video Data + AI, VR/AR/ML
among others to accelerate the transformation to the Cloud for digital services.
Trends, News, Product Spotlights and upcoming events
Media industry news featuring Customer and Partner Announcements

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Top 5 announcements from Microsoft
Ignite 2019 | Windows Central
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Sony acquires AT&T stake in Game
Show Network
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and AT&T have
announced that SPE has acquired AT&T’s minority
stake in Game Show Network. SPE now owns 100
per cent of the multimedia entertainment
company offering original and classic game
programming to millions o
Nordic TV groups focus on originals to
take on Netflix
A report from Ampere Analysis focuses on one of
the globe’s most advanced SVoD markets – the
Nordics. Since its launch in the region in 2012,
Netflix has been the driving force in the OTT
market, achieving 4.5 million subscribers by the
end of 2018.

3. Forecast: US telco & pay-TV service
revenue $420bn by 2024
Total telecommunications and pay-TV service
revenue will reach $404.5 billion (€365.4bn) by the
end of 2019, representing a 0.5 per cent decline
over 2018, according to GlobalData, a data and
analytics company. Ivan Maldonado, Technology
Analyst at G
Microsoft's 'Project Silica' targets glass
as the archival storage medium of the
future | PCWorld
Microsoft's 'Project Silica' targets glass as the
archival storage medium of the future Project
Silica glass can withstand microwaving, flooding,
degaussing, and other environmental hazards.
Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust
thousand-year storage | Ars Technica
Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a
principal researcher at Microsoft Research in
Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage
project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both
tape and ...
Project Silica proof of concept stores
Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on
quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to
successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978
iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass
roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2
millimeters thick. It was the first proof of concept
test f

4. Microsoft To Help Enterprises Mint Their
Own Ethereum Tokens
Microsoft is taking its secret platform for creating
tokens similar to bitcoin out for a test drive. The
software giant, which was among the first to
accept bitcoin for payment, has created a mint for
issuing a wide range of crypto assets. Several co
EY highlights the way forward for telco
Greg_Cudahy, EY Global Technology, Media &
Entertainment and Telecommunications Sector
Leader, highlights the way forward for Tech,
Media and Telco companies to cease market
opportunities & the key role of Microsoft
Telstra kicks off AU$7m Torres Strait
mobile upgrade - Video | ZDNet
It will deliver improved internet access across 14
of the region's island by 2021.
Collaboration and knowledge-sharing in
the cloud bring Swisscom's field
technicians closer together
When Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms
and TV service provider, was faced with
communication challenges, siloed ways of
working, and disconnected tools, the company
worked with Microsoft to create a
solution―“Work Smart NOW.” The initiative to

5. Microsoft Ignite 2019 | GitHub +
Comcast - YouTube
GitHub provides Comcast with a platform to
efficiently and securely develop code in an open
source environment. Subscribe to Microsoft on
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Azure Peering Service Preview overview
Learn about Azure Peering Service overview
Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud team up
on open standard for Kubernetes
applications
With Kubernetes far and away the leading
container orchestration environment, Microsoft
and Alibaba Cloud are forming a new open
standard. Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud have
teamed up to create the Open Application Model
(OAM) standard for building clo
NVIDIA with Microsoft Announces
Technology Collaboration for Era of
Intelligent Edge
Mobile World Congress — NVIDIA with Microsoft
Corp. today announced a technology
collaboration focused on intelligent edge
computing, designed to help industries better
manage and gain insights from the growing flood
of data created by retail stores,

6. Microsoft snags Mover to speed up
cloud file migration to Microsoft 365
Microsoft announced on Monday it has bought
privately held Mover to make it easier for its
customers to migrate files to Microsoft 365.
Mover gives Microsoft customers another avenue
to move their workloads, including admin-led and
self-service offer
Microsoft in 'huge transformation' as it
partners with AT&T for 5G future
innovation - SiliconANGLE
Microsoft in 'huge transformation' as it partners
with AT&T for 5G future innovation -
SiliconANGLE
Microsoft Wins the Pentagon JEDI
Contract | The Motley Fool
I like things that go "boom." Sonic or otherwise,
that means I tend to gravitate towards defense
and aerospace stocks. But to tell the truth, over
the course of a dozen years writing for The ...
Microsoft Azure Arc Arcs Data Across
AWS, Google Cloud
Microsoft tightened its embrace of the hybrid
cloud world with its new Azure Arc platform that
extends its Azure control plane across rival cloud
provider and on-premises locations. The preview
launch continues the broader industry push to
help enter

7. Azure Arc: Extending Azure
management to any infrastructure
If you are like many of our customers, you are
running a mix of applications in your on-premises
datacenters, multiple cloud environments, and
edge.
Azure services now run anywhere with
new hybrid capabilities: Announcing
Azure Arc
Today, we are announcing Azure Arc, a set of
technologies that unlocks new hybrid scenarios
for customers by bringing Azure services and
management to any infrastructure. Azure Arc is
available in preview starting today.
NAB, CBA, Telstra, and Microsoft to test
Australian government AI ethics
principles | ZDNet
The businesses have voluntarily put their hands
up to test the principles in real world scenarios.
Commercial ID relies ever more on user
control: Digital identity at MWC19 Los
Angeles - Identity
The need for trusted digital identity is growing
rapidly with the world’s digital economy: with 4.5
billion internet users globally, there are more
points of attack for cybercriminals than ever
before. In the UK for instance, hackers stole £1.2
bill

8. SAMENA Trends - September 2019
Bob De Haven, General Manager, Worldwide
Media & Communications, at Microsoft, talks to
SAMENA Trends magazine, about how Microsoft
is helping Telecom operators to achieve digital
transformation.
5G will drive a cloud gaming explosion,
analyst says
5G networks coming online along with new
streaming video game services will cause an
explosion in cloud gaming over the next few
years.
Microsoft and Salesforce expand
strategic partnership to accelerate
customer success - Stories
Salesforce names Microsoft Azure as its public
cloud provider for Salesforce Marketing Cloud to
help customers scale and grow; new integration
between Salesforce Sales and Service Clouds with
Microsoft Teams will boost productivity
REDMOND, Wash., an
Why Azure Arc Is A Game Changer For
Microsoft
At Ignite 2019, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft,
announced a slew of new hybrid cloud products
and services. The most significant announcement
from Satya’s keynote is Azure Arc, the hybrid and
...
Events & Webcasts
Upcoming Media industry events featuring Microsoft and our partners

9. NewsTECHForum 2019
NewsTECHForum 2019 Agenda Highlights
“Creating an Agile Newsroom” Multiplatform
Production Without the Pain; Cybersecurity in the
Newsroom and the Field
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