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of larger live production ecosystems. It “orchestrates the centralised set-up, configuration and monitoring of hardware and production resources, simplifying resource allocation and maximising production resource availability”. Dalet’s offer in this space revolves around the Dalet Galaxy five media asset management and workflow orchestration platform. According to Alonso, the platform focuses on production-intensive workflows to create, manage and distribute content with an editorial and orchestration layer that manages assets, metadata and third- party integrations. As might be expected, aiding remote content production and delivery has assumed even greater importance during the pandemic, hence the recent launch of Dalet Galaxy xCloud – a dedicated, cloud-hosted Dalet Galaxy system that is managed by Dalet as a full SaaS service, and which connects to a company’s existing on-premises system. With increasingly comprehensive workflows being delivered in whole or in
part via the cloud, security of assets also continues to be a high priority. In the case of Dalet, both Galaxy five and the Ooyala Flex Media Platform – which powers media logistics for multiplatform, OTT and digital distribution – recently obtained the DPP Security marks for broadcast and production, “as security across the entire content supply chain has been a strong focus for both us and our user community”. One factor exerting a growing influence on orchestration solutions is the desire to support pop-up or temporary channels. Delivering end-to-end workflows for such channels in the cloud makes sense on both logistical and economic levels, so it’s no surprise to discover that this element is gaining greater attention from vendors. Harmonic is among them. The company NEW CHANNELS AND CONFIGURATION announced a raft of new features in the latest release of its VOS SaaS and cloud-native software as this issue of FEED went to press. Perhaps the most
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