Multimedia storage servers provide access to multimedia objects including text, images, audio, and video. The design of such servers fundamentally di ers from conventional servers due to: 1 the real-time storage and retrieval requirements, as well as 2 the large storage space and data transfer rate requirements of digital multimedia. In this paper, we present an overview of the architectures and algorithms required for designing digital multimedia storage servers.
New technology now allows us to attend business conferences without physically attending the conferences. Is this cost-cutting, time-saving practice the next killer app?AT THIS MOMENT, thousands of people are criss-crossing the globe to attend business presentations. Most of them will spend more time traveling to the presentation j than they would in the presentation itself. Also at this moment, thousands of peo-[ pie are not at presentations they need or want to attend due to scheduling conflicts, crises, or budget constraints. Similarly, presenters are busy re-presenting the same material to people who could not attend their last presentation.
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