How cloud and IP are transforming media operations and productions

The COVID 19 pandemic has accelerated the ongoing transformation of the media landscape and its new modes of consumption and businesses are constantly under pressure to meet end-user needs that are becoming more and more demanding. Consumer’s expectations today include a larger choice of content, a personalized viewing experience, broadcast-grade video quality and ubiquitous availability – consume everywhere, anytime, on any device and connection. Learn more about the acceleration of cloud and virtualization for media production.

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Elastic transcode in a supply chain under your own (security) terms

Media supply chains in the cloud are more popular than ever, with the ability to pay-as-you-go for best-of-breed tooling in a SaaS model, being a major attraction. Organizations which operate their own private cloud environments, however, don’t have to miss out on elastic transcode capability as a supply chain component. Dalet shows how a Docker-container based deployment and auto-scaling transcode capability can be added to existing, secure, audited, cloud environments

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IABM Memberspeak: Playout in the cloud, Igor Kroll, CEO, Veset

Igor Kroll, CEO, Veset, discusses Veset’s current product range and where it is heading. Their main product, Nimbus, delivers ‘self-service SaaS’ for customers. Nimbus enables Veset’s customers to deliver linear TV channels without the need to invest in any hardware or to commit to long-term contracts in any way, shape or form. One of the key benefits of the true cloud playout is that customers pay for what they actually use, which opens the door, not only for reducing costs for traditional 24/7 linear channels, but also to a completely new area of temporary, event-driven channels. When was Veset founded and what was the company’s vision? Veset was founded in 2011 in Latvia by a group of experts from IT, broadcast and telecoms backgrounds. Our vision was to create a pure cloud playout solution. We were surprised that this part of the broadcast workflow chain was lagging so far behind everything else in terms of migrating to the cloud – even in 2011. Tell us about Veset’s current product range and where you heading in the future. We have focused on developing “native” cloud playout solutions right from the start, and this remains our focus today. Our main product, Nimbus,...