Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) April 2016 Volume 33, Issue 3 | Page 33

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