HOME APPS ARE HARDWARE-AGNOSTIC AND ABLE TO RUN FROM ANYWHERE – EVEN IN THE PUBLIC CLOUD
users need it. Designed for Lawo-grade processing quality in a supremely agile, containerised software guise, Lawo’s HOME Apps run on standard servers and are managed entirely through HOME, where users summon and configure them, and specify on which server they should run, if so desired. HOME will conveniently preserve settings for future use. In this way, HOME Apps do not need to be tied to a set location. If an OB truck unexpectedly needs to cover a breaking-news event, for instance, the required HOME Apps can be transferred to that truck for the duration of the event. For this, the truck only needs to be equipped with a few standard servers, which are 1U high rather than the huge housings of yore. HOME Apps and space-saving standard servers allow operators to spec out their processing infrastructure à la carte, on short notice. Standard servers also consume considerably less energy while running idle, as opposed to bespoke hardware that always burns the full amount. Standard servers can be used for a variety of tasks – running VSM, theWALL and HOME itself, for instance. Given the ability to easily beef up their network interface cards and processing units, they are unlikely to become obsolete any time soon.
Thus, HOME Apps are entirely hardware- agnostic and able to run anywhere – even in the public cloud – for maximum agility. FLEXIBLE COMBOS One final piece rounding out Lawo’s elastic offering is absolute flexibility with respect to how we own, or interact with, HOME Apps. The traditional approach is to ‘own’ the required app functionality. For this, Lawo offers perpetual licences to a specific HOME App, granting users the right to use that app forever. The second is a radical rethink of what ownership means. The growing consensus seems to be: the right to use a given functionality or service. Coupled with the flexibility to decide how long operators need such a right, a new way of looking at the availability of constantly evolving functionality emerges. Lawo believes that the best way to offer this is through flexible combinations of perpetually owned licences and time-limited subscriptions, with sufficient flexibility to allow users to define their specific usage models. Some will prefer the stability of perpetual licences; while others need a dose of elasticity through subscriptions to cope with peak times; still others happily settle for a bit of both; and some see the benefit of a 100% subscription-based package. Irrespective of whether and how you want to use the subscription model, it is function-agnostic, granting access to the entire HOME App catalogue, present and future. A subscription allows you to switch between apps and add-on functionality as you see fit, and the duration of this flexible availability can be freely specified between one month, six months or longer. Subscriptions could be used to top up existing permanent functionality, and move the functionality where it is needed next – anywhere inside the HOME system. All from the comfort of HOME.
THE GOLDEN RATIO Lawo’s HOME UDX Converter app provides video format and aspect ratio conversions
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