Blackbird Share Discussion Threads

[sideshowbull] 11/3/2020 17:23

I never received that email, but I am not a user apart from my free shareholder account.

Would be nice if we could retweet it.

[sideshowbull] 11/3/2020 17:18

That is the cloud saying I told you so now beg.

[bonio10000] 11/3/2020 17:02

Maybe they can use Eva?

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:54

Patcash
Yes I noticed that.

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:53

Now seeing lots of companies announcing withdrawal from NAB looks like the flood gate has opened.

NAB itself seems very behind the curve on this now.

Lots of people talking of trying to get some kind of unofficial Show online to get industry news out.

[pat_cash] 11/3/2020 16:44

Half thorough business continuity notice, half marketing Bird's strengths - I like it! Is the following meant to indicate signups...haha! "The next few weeks may mean some drastic changes to the way businesses operate and should you require expansion, increased capacity or new users added to your Blackbird instances then please give us some notice as I am sure you can understand this is a busy time."

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:44

Not if it’s online!

The industry has the technology to do this!!!

[bonio10000] 11/3/2020 16:39

Going to be hard to attend a show with everyone at home.....

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:23

Not many companies can run with 90% working from home!

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:22

Blackbird customer notice regarding COVID-19 coronavirus
11 March 2020, London -

The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to dominate the news, with major implications for global public health. It is also causing significant economic and operational disruption across the world.

At Blackbird, we have been preparing for the escalation of the crisis for several weeks and this notice is to act as reassurance that we have those plans in place.

I wanted to assure you that in respect of the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak we are focused on: the health and welfare of both our clients and staff and business continuity to support clients in all scenarios.

I am therefore writing to share with you some of the specific actions that we have taken:

Prior Preparation

As a cloud native platform we are very well placed to respond quickly and be able to work remotely. A robust approach to operational effectiveness is integral to our business and we have been prepared for abnormal events for some time through a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan.

Our BCP identifies the requirements that would be needed for each function of the business to operate under a wide range of scenarios and is kept under constant review. These scenarios include natural disasters, acts of terrorism, data breaches, power and transport failures and major sickness outbreaks such as pandemics.

Operational Resilience

Our core proprietary Blackbird cloud video technology and additional complementary infrastructure ensure that the business is both robust and adaptable to be able to cope with significant and potentially disruptive events.


all staff have the ability to work from home if required and can remotely access our systems within a secure IT environment.
all customers are able to be fully supported 24/7 by staff working from home.
new and expansion deployments of Blackbird to customers and prospects can be done remotely by staff working from home.
client content in Blackbird format is held across multiple data centres and has always been remotely managed. We have sought and received confirmation of the ability for the data centres to continue operating in all eventualities including their staff being able to work remotely from home.

Employee and Client Safety

The health, safety and well being of all of our staff and clients is of the paramount importance to us. We have been in regular contact with all staff.

From Thursday 11th March all staff who can work from home have been instructed to do so. This will be 90% plus of the workforce.

Until further notice there will be no face-to-face meetings with existing or prospective customers. All meetings will take place remotely.

The coronavirus outbreak is clearly an evolving situation both in terms of infection and the impact on business. While we cannot predict when the outbreak will have peaked and starts to subside we hope the disruption will be short lived.

The next few weeks may mean some drastic changes to the way businesses operate and should you require expansion, increased capacity or new users added to your Blackbird instances then please give us some notice as I am sure you can understand this is a busy time.

In the meantime we want to reassure you that we are taking sensible precautions to minimise the impact on our clients, staff and operations while ensuring it’s business as usual.

If you have any questions please drop the team a line or reply to this email.

Yours sincerely

Ian McDonough
CEO
Blackbird

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:22

cabi

Perhaps waiting for NAB to cancel as I believe if individual companies cancel they will get no refund

[cabi1] 11/3/2020 16:18

They won’t be sending anyone, once it’s called off.

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:17

Okay just seen the email

Blackbird customer notice regarding COVID-19

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:13

So are Blackbird acting irresponsibly in sending its employees to the NAB Show?

[cabi1] 11/3/2020 16:09

No way will it be on.

[nickb] 11/3/2020 16:07

Yet more companies have today just announced pulling out of NAB.

Makes today’s rns somewhat against the trend.

[nickb] 11/3/2020 15:51

SSB
Delusional I would say.

[sideshowbull] 11/3/2020 15:40

Been thinking, if we hit the lottery, and AWS is an OEM, a way we could we see AWS branding blackbird editor as Amazon editor so on the AWS platform users would see Amazon cloud editing fastest cloud editor blah blah, but it is actually BIRD?

Or am I deluded and expecting too much?


IMO

BWTFDIK

[nickb] 11/3/2020 09:44

farr

Blackbird isn’t for Amazon streaming.

Maybe they could offer Blackbird as an option for certain situations?

[_m_k] 11/3/2020 09:42

"The only unusual thing is that they use 'compute capacity' rather than processing capacity."

both immeasurably better than FLOPS.

[nickb] 11/3/2020 09:41

They have integrated with Elemental so are in an Amazon video pipeline which perhaps is a OEM offering?

Not sure what OEM means these days!

Seems to me to be more than just hosting Blackbird on AWS much more integrated I reckon

[sideshowbull] 11/3/2020 09:29

Can we dare to dream that AWS is the OEM?

[bonio10000] 11/3/2020 07:45

Banks will be crucified today. All their lending margins are being destroyed. Hopefully DB finally goes bust soon.