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MARKET MOVEMENT European Broadcasting Union selects Leaseweb as preferred international distributor for Eurovision Flow to attain by individual organisations. In Leaseweb we found an ideal partner to accommodate the service’s rapid growth.” “We’ve witnessed an uptake of Multi-CDN solutions over the last few years in various markets, with these solutions being deployed to improve the end user experience,” said Wilfried Dudink, Managing Director of Leaseweb CDN. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has selected cloud computing and web service provider, Leaseweb, as the preferred international distributor for Eurovision Flow. Leaseweb will also contribute its cutting-edge Multi-CDN solutions to the stack of services provided in Eurovision Flow. The agreement will accommodate the growth of Eurovision Flow, which has become one of the most trusted brands for premium Multi-CDN services. The EBU created Eurovision Flow four years ago to help its members reduce the costs of online media delivery while also improving its service’s quality of experience. “The higher cost of online delivery can put a strain on the budgets of public service media as their online services are growing in popularity,” the EBU’s Product Owner, Bram Tullemans, explained. “With Eurovision Flow we provide a convenient solution that maximises quality of experience and leverages economies of scale to achieve a price point that is difficult |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| BMC completes acquisition of Compuware to mainstream mainframe DevOps BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the autonomous digital enterprise, has announced the close of its acquisition of Compuware, a leading provider of mainframe application development, delivery and performance solutions. The strategic combination of the two companies builds on the success of BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware’s Topaz suite, ISPW technology and classic product portfolios to modernise clients’ mainframe environments. BMC with Compuware now enables automation and intelligent operations with agile development and delivery – empowering the nextgeneration of mainframe developers and operations teams to excel when working with mainframe programming languages, applications, data, infrastructure and security. “Adding Compuware’s Topaz software development environment to the BMC portfolio is another step in the direction of targeting the enterprise developer. With Topaz, developers take a modern approach to building, testing and deploying mainframe applications. This move should allow BMC to spread the word that modern tools matter for the mainframe engineer,” wrote Christopher Condo, Chris Gardner and Diego Lo Giudice at Forrester Research. Fifty percent of respondents in a 2019 Forrester study shared that they plan to grow their use of the mainframe over the next two years and 93% of respondents in the 2019 BMC Mainframe Survey believe in the long-term and new workload strength of the platform. • INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS Issue 31 57