Asia-Pacific News

Acquia, a leading open cloud platform for integrated digital experiences, announced four key appointments to strengthen the team in their new Australian office and support the Acquia Cloud, the scalable hosting environment for Drupal deployments. David Peterson has joined the company as Senior Drupal Advisor. He’s worked on many Drupal sites, including the ABC’s Hungry [...]

In a significant development for one of Australia’s largest digitisation, duplication and authoring companies, Silver Trak Digital has launched its long-awaited Media Sphere end-to-end digital workflow solution. Media Sphere is the first single point solution in Australia to truly encompass all aspects of digitising, transcoding, technical assessment QC and digital distribution workflows. Silver Trak Digital MD, Christian Christiansen, explained, [...]

Expanding its offering on the VIERA Connect platform, Panasonic has announced a partnership with SBS to offer an on demand service on selected Smart VIERA TVs. The SBS ON DEMAND app gives users access to a vast range of the programming that SBS is known for – TV shows, films and event footage from around [...]

The Australian cloud computing market was worth US$882.4 million in 2012 and is expected to reach US$3.33 billion in 2016. Frost & Sullivan expects this market to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.3% from 2011-2016. According to Andrew Milroy, Vice President, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific, cloud computing is [...]

Technology Minister Gordon Rich-Phillips has announced an investment of more than $100 million by Telstra in a new cloud centre in Clayton, creating jobs for 500 Victorians during construction. Mr Rich-Phillips, who is also the Member for South East Metropolitan region, toured the site in Clayton yesterday. “Telstra has a strong presence in Victoria and [...]

VMware hosting provider StratoGen has announced the opening of its highly optimised cloud datacentre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The datacentre extends StratoGen’s capability to support its global customer base by providing premium VMware hosting facilities in this rapidly expanding region. The datacentre is ISO27001 certified with N+1 resilience on all systems. Designed from the ground [...]

Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), a global provider of cloud content services, announced that TVNZ, New Zealand’s national broadcaster, will launch a new TVNZ onDemand catch-up TV app for Apple iOS and Google Android devices using the Brightcove App Cloud mobile app platform. With App Cloud, TVNZ will be able to deliver rich, long-form advertising-supported content experiences [...]

Aspera, Inc., the developer of software technologies to move large amounts of data at high speeds, has announced the opening of an Asian regional office in Singapore. The new office will better serve Aspera’s rapidly growing base of high-speed file transfer software users across Asia Pacific and further drive business expansion in the region. Aspera [...]

Microsoft and PPTV, China’s leading Internet TV service provider, signed a strategic partnership memorandum to launch PPTV Asia TV Networks (ATN) platform on Windows Azure. This Internet TV service platform will offer content and service providers a new scale of business opportunities. This is also Microsoft’s first cloud-based collaboration with a local Chinese new media [...]

Avid (NASDAQ: AVID) and Hostworks have announced a partnership to develop new concepts and services tailored specifically for the needs of the broadcast and production industry. With media assets becoming digital and associated metadata increasing exponentially, broadcasters and media production companies are facing new challenges all the time. These include how best to manage, store [...]