Moving Live Production to the Cloud – from the Ground Up (Digital Media World, January 2019)
Right now, the most common approach to configuring virtualisation for media functions is to use specialised hardware platforms, optimised for performance, explains Nevion’s Olviier Suard. However, products with a larger proportion of their specialised functionality owed to software have recently become available, and systems based on commercial off the shelf (COTS) IT platforms are now also beginning to appear, allowing the same unit to be built and used for multiple purposes.