Cloud

Abstract

The combination of Cloud and COVID-19 continues to have a massive impact on workflows and working practices around the world. Back in 2018, Cloud was becoming popular for distribution, file centralization, offline processes, and limited realtime collaboration. The impacts of lockdown have been vast. We see many live workflows where 'backhauling feeds' are no longer to a local, on-premise data center, but to a cloud location where instances of user's favorite tools are running in virtual machines and creating results that are quality-controlled via proxies and ready to distribute globally at speeds that were previously difficult to achieve.