MANAGEMENT
April 2016
Silver Trak’s Media Room
hits three million transcoders
Silver Trak’s Media Room smart media
storage, management and delivery
service has clocked more than three
million transcodes in just under two
years of operation.
Silver Trak’s Media Room smart
media storage, management and
delivery service has clocked more
than three million transcodes in
just under two years of operation.
Christian Christiansen, Silver
Trak’s managing director, said: “We
have hit all of our key milestones
and more in the past two years and
the numbers are quite staggering.
Over three million transcodes,
500TB of storage and a new 1PB
storage system being rolled out in
the very near future.”
Silver Trak’s Media Room smart
media storage, management and
delivery service is used by some
of Australia’s largest free-to-air
broadcasters, streaming companies
and content providers, including
ABC TV, Netflix, Foxtel, Icon Film
Distribution, Transmission Films
and Entertainment One.
Media Room addresses the
specific needs of any broadcaster,
production house, post-production
house or distributor who has media
assets it wants to store, manage
and deliver from the convenience
of any Web-connected device.
It gives users “100% control”
over their assets and the ability to
use Silver Trak’s services such as QC,
file storage or Aspera fasp high-
speed data transfers without paying
any licence fees, said Silver Trak.
Qvest Media and Ooyala
enter strategic tie-up
Qvest Media is entering into a strategic partnership
with Ooyala that will see Qvest Media become a
reseller and service provider for Ooyala’s products
in EMEA.
Through its partnership with Ooyala, Qvest Media
is underlining its focus on the forward-looking and
innovative direction of its portfolio in the areas of
professional products, according to the company.
Customers can now purchase Ooyala’s entire range of
products from Qvest Media, including the new Ooyala
IQ data and analysis platform, which can process be-
tween three and four billion analysis pings, delivering
multidimensional combinations of data in real time, in
order to enable improvements in moving-image offer-
ings. Based on this analysis, Ooyala IQ can be linked
with the customer’s business intelligence platform to
enable optimised programme decisions.
Lauding a mutually beneficial partnership, Holger
Schöpper, regional director CEU at Ooyala, said: “With
its technology and services, Ooyala covers the entire
value chain from video production, video management,
playout, recommendation, subscr