IDC Spotlight: Media and Entertainment Workflows Drive Use of Object Storage

Object storage infrastructure has become an important technology in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry to address the exponential growth of high-resolution content, the increasingly distributed nature of production workflows, and the expanding use of AI and cloud-native technologies. Object systems offer the scalability to store and manage petabytes, if not exabytes, of unstructured data across on-premises and cloud environments.

Object storage has become a foundational technology for modern media and entertainment workflows, enabling teams to manage massive volumes of high-resolution content across distributed, cloud-native environments. This IDC report examines how scalable object storage, rich metadata, S3 compatibility, and integrated security are reshaping media pipelines—from ingest and post-production to AI-driven enrichment and global distribution—while highlighting how decentralized approaches like Storj can reduce costs, improve sustainability, and support the next generation of media workflows.

In this report, you’ll learn

How object storage enables scalable, cloud-native media workflows
Why metadata, S3 compatibility, and performance are critical for M&E
Where decentralized storage fits into modern production pipelines

IDC Spotlight: Media and Entertainment Workflows Drive Use of Object Storage

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