Articles about Elemental

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans… Read More

First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong

NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition… Read More

Elemental Technologies changes name to AWS Elemental to reflect acquisition by Amazon

Elemental Technologies is now AWS Elemental. The company today officially announced its name change, which reflects Amazon’s $296 million acquisition of… Read More

Here’s how much Amazon paid to acquire Portland’s Elemental Technologies

Now we know how much Amazon paid to acquire Elemental Technologies. In an SEC filing posted on Friday, Amazon revealed that it… Read More

How two guys found a way to broadcast live ultimate frisbee to the world

PORTLAND, Ore. — Broadcasting a live sporting event was once a massive full-on production project that took loads of money… Read More

Slick video shows why Portland is an awesome city for tech startups

When we sat down with Elemental CEO Sam Blackman earlier this month, the GeekWire Startup CEO of the Year wasn’t shy about his thoughts on Portland… Read More

Why our Startup CEO of the Year thinks Portland is the next great startup city

When we announced that Elemental’s Sam Blackman had won the Startup CEO of the Year award at last week’s GeekWire… Read More

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel joins the board of Elemental Technologies

Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel isn’t wasting much time taking on new roles. Patel, who announced late last month that he… Read More