Rackspace and 创作 Join, Offer Video Platform in the Cloud
Rackspace hosting, which offers hosting and cloud computing, has partnered with open source video platform 创作 to offer 创作 in the cloud. 创作 has entered Rackspace's Cloud Tools Program.
This means that publishers, including media companies, 企业, small- or medium-sized businesses, 或大学, can initiate a Rackspace instance of 创作 in 15 minutes. They'll get the full use of 创作's offerings, including rich-media ingestion, 代码转换, 管理, 元数据提取, 搜索引擎优化, 分布, 出版, 分析, 和更多的.
"Video is one of the main drivers on the web today, and we see continuous rapid growth in the amount of bandwidth consumed by video on the cloud," says Nishan Sivathasan, director of corporate development for Rackspace. "
The version of 创作 available is its Community Edition, 哪个是免费使用的, but offers no support or maintenance. Users can get started with a 4GB RAM/160GB to a 15GB RAM/620GB disk instance and expand as needed. 创作 says the few needed installation steps take under 15 minutes.
Content owners can also use the Commercial Edition of 创作 with Rackspace, which offers maintenance and support. 这样做, they'll need to contact 创作 first for payment and to make sure they're getting the right software. The two versions have the same features and are both open source, but the Community Edition is free and requires that modifications be shared with 创作.
"We are delighted to expand our cloud-based video platform to also support the Rackspace Network,Ron Yekutiel补充道, 创作董事长 & 首席执行官. "Publishers can now easily deploy a Rackspace-hosted video 管理 platform within minutes and at minimal cost based on 创作's commercial on-premise software or on its free open-source version."
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