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Cloud Power Channels Media Overload into Your Own Enterprise .TV Network. “Windows Azure provided us with the right cloud platform to deliver a highly scalable, media-centric cloud service.” – Joe Ward, CEO, xTV. WINDOWS AZURE ISV : xTV WEB SITE : xTV-inc.com LOCATION : Redwood City, USA
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Cloud Power Channels Media Overloadinto Your Own Enterprise .TV Network “Windows Azure provided us with the right cloud platform to deliver a highly scalable, media-centric cloud service.” – Joe Ward, CEO, xTV WINDOWS AZURE ISV: xTV WEB SITE: xTV-inc.com LOCATION: Redwood City, USA ORG SIZE: 10+ INDUSTRY:Media WINDOWS AZURE ISV PROFILE: xTV is the platform for your enterprise .TV network. Powered by Windows Azure, the platform is a real-time media network that organizes your enterprise media into one TV media network. ADDITIONAL LINKS: Techcrunch TV Microsoft TV An abundance of enterprise information is available via YouTube, Vimeo, uStream, Livestream, Twitter, RSS, Chatter, Yammer, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. To handle the media explosion and consolidate it with weather and stock information, xTV sought a highly robust, media-centric, scalable cloud platform. SITUATION: xTV is a solution that allows users to connect video with feeds while choosing their own design. To ingest, process, and push media for 130 different .TV networks, xTV leverages a combination of most components of the Windows Azure cloud, including: web sites, virtual machines, Windows Azure Cloud Services, Windows Azure SQL Database, Media Services, Traffic Manager, Active Directory, storage instances, and Visual Studio. SOLUTION: BENEFITS: • Thanks to Windows Azure’s infrastructure, new .TV networks can be built in less than five minutes and can run 24x7 automatically without maintenance. • Windows Azure Media Services encode and distribute media economically and efficiently, yet with full API interaction with xTV’s real-time-as-a-service (RaaS) platform. WINDOWS AZURE CASE STUDY