Unified Streaming Increases Availability In The Cloud

Unified Streaming has announced the availability of Unified Origin in Microsoft Azure. Unified Origin enables companies to stream their media content from one unified source to multiple clients and devices.

More and more companies want to take ownership, and to be successful they need to be flexible, keep a short time-to-market and be cost-effective, which is what Unified Streaming's software in an Azure environment can offer.

Unified Origin wraps the platform specific solutions available for MPEG-DASH, Apple (HTTP Live Streaming), Adobe (HTTP Dynamic Streaming) and Microsoft (Smooth Streaming) into one, and as it happens on-the-fly, it eliminates large storage needs. It is a future-proof solution due to its flexibility, and new formats and DRM flavours can be easily integrated into Unified Origin. Companies do not have to re-encode their entire catalog when a new format or device enters the market. In addition, by combining it with Azure storage and Azure Virtual Machines, companies can create a set-up that can be scaled for use on an on-demand basis.

"By using Azure, we are able to reach a wide variety of customers with our digital content delivery solution, Unified Origin. It's easy to use within Azure and accessible both technologically and financially," explains Simon Westbroek, VP Global sales of Unified Streaming.

"We are happy to offer Unified Origin in Azure. It offers customers a high performance solution to stream their content efficiently in every format, to any screen," adds Venkat Gattemneni, Group Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure.

By utilising Azure with Unified Origin, the solution is scalable, easy to use, and offers DRM support for solutions such as Marlin, PlayReady, Widevine and Fairplay.

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