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Microsoft Informative Briefing |19 September 2014

Microsoft’s Indian Ocean Islands General Manager, Paul Bunting this week visited Seychelles and together with Saheel Khoyratty (Microsoft Indian Ocean Proactive HR Services) organised a session entitled ‘Reimagining your Business’ where they covered Microsoft’s road map and their vision for the enterprise.

Customers and partners were invited to explore how Microsoft’s four technology megatrends are driving their investments in devices and services to enable business model innovation:

Mobile devices and apps are providing workers with real time access to business information from anywhere and enabling businesses to engage customers with smart, contextual experiences.

Social technologies have become more comprehensive and integrated, helping connect enterprise workers and drive more impactful engagement with customers and partners.

Data has become a key business differentiator, empowering people with key insights and enabling businesses to move faster.
Cloud services are enabling all of these trends by reshaping IT and enabling the business to do more, quicker.

This event was aimed at Microsoft partners to help them confidently address their customers’ needs and deepen their role as their trusted advisor. Also showcased was how Microsoft is reimagining technology through a devices and services lens.

 

Microsoft Azure Media Services adds new cloud-first live streaming, content protection and indexing services

New services and technology partnerships help broadcasters and media companies move to the cloud.

Before the opening day of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), Microsoft Corp. announced new cloud-first media services, including HD-quality live streaming that supports today’s most popular devices and platforms, end-to-end content protection capabilities, and a new service that simplifies the indexing of audio and video content and makes it easier to search. These new capabilities are part of Microsoft Azure Media Services, a comprehensive platform built on a market-proven public cloud that media companies can use to build scalable, cost-effective and end-to-end media solutions.

“Broadcasters and premium content owners spend significant amounts of money and resources each year to host, manage, support and distribute their media,” said Sudheer Sirivara, partner director of Engineering, Azure Media Services, Microsoft.

“Now with Azure Media Services, customers can move that infrastructure to the cloud – with support for live and on-demand content – and focus on what really matters to their business and customers: creating, monetising and distributing content to more customers on more devices.”

New partner solutions
Since Azure Media Services was initially released in 2012, a broad ecosystem of industry partners have built integrated solutions that offer customers flexibility and choice for their media workflows. Microsoft is now adding four new partners to that ecosystem:
•    Telestream’s Wirecast offers customers a built-in destination that makes it quick and easy to send content from Wirecast’s live streaming production software to Microsoft Azure.

•    NewTek TriCaster offers customers a total media publishing solution for live productions of any scale and includes the ability to ingest mezzanine stream over Real-Time Messaging Protocol.

•    Cires21 offers customers a simple and easy-to-use service to help monitor the health of live channels.

•    JW Player offers customers the ability to customize and distribute premium adaptive content to a wide array of devices.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential.

 

 

 

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