Source: DDX: DDX GLU Platform, Official Technology Partners

The GLU Platform, a rich media development, collaboration and management platform, today formally announced its relationship with Rackspace®, a world leader in hosting, which delivers the GLU Platform computing on demand. This is in addition to its existing Adobe Solution Partner status.

The Rackspace Cloud™ delivers the GLU Platform computing on demand, providing it with the ability to meet the varied and often demanding hosting and delivery requirements of rich media projects.
 

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The GLU Platform is powered by the Rackspace Cloud™, which delivers it computing on demand.

It is also what made the GLU Platform the 1st cloud computing based rich media development, collaboration and management platform in the cloud back on 12th May 2009 – Press Release here

Utilising the Rackspace Cloud, Server Management, Capacity Planning, Troubleshooting and Backups are taken care of by Rackspace, enabling DDX to worry about more important things, like ongoing product development and making the GLU Platform work even harder for its customers.

Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the world’s leader in hosting. Rackspace deliver enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. Rackspace started in 1998 and have since grown to serve more than 70,000 customers, including over 51,000 cloud computing customers. Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer’s specific need and delivers it as a service via the company’s commitment to Fanatical Support.

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium.

The GLU Platform leverages Adobe’s Flash Platform technologies and ActionScript 3.0 framework enabling rich media projects to be created more quickly and managed more easily, while leveraging powerful web services and features such as real-time video encoding and publishing, mobile video ingestion and conversion, user generated content and moderation and turn-key Google Analytics for Flash.

For more information, visit:

www.gluplatform.com/about/technology-partners
 

Pricing and availability

GLU Platform (v3) full commercial release has been available to the public since 1st September 2009 and includes full micro-payments and reseller systems integration

To try for free, visit:

www.gluplatform.com/sign-up
 

DDX overview

DDX are a specialist digital services firm located in Sydney Australia who have completed work for and assisted companies across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States, including MySpace, MTV Networks, Fox Interactive Media, and News Limited.

For more information, visit www.ddx.com.au
 

Contact details

Sasha Merzliakov – Partner & Business Director

Studio 5, Level 1, 27 Commonwealth Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
T: +61 2 9267-0698 F: +61 2 8323-4299

www.ddx.com.au
 

For a final summary on our presentation please visit:

http://www.gluplatform.com/news/2009/10/27/tech23-event-presentation
 

The presentation topic:

Rich Media SaaS – Development, Collaboration and Management in the ‘cloud’

A lot to squeeze into the 4 minute timeslot, especially including a bit of background on DDX and ‘rich media’ – check back to hear everything went!
 

Up on SlideShare we have two GLU Platform presentations, one detailed, the other a summarised version which has been presented to many digital media agencies, both in person and online this past month:
http://www.slideshare.net/gluplatform

Be sure to check back later today at 2:40pm when the Tech23 Presentation I will be giving will be simultaneously released online for those not attending Tech23.
 

If you are interested in attending and haven’t already purchased a ticket we are able to offer discounted tickets to those in our network, so please feel free to click on the link below and use promo code: 2323
https://www.slatteryit.com.au/tech23-discount.aspx

To view the latest Tech23 program schedule for the day click on the link below:
https://www.slatteryit.com.au/tech23/program.html
 

Now in 347 cities across 78 countries worldwide, the GLU Platform is being quickly adopted as a ‘must have’ tool for every Flash Platform developer’s toolbox.

The GLU Platform provides the most comprehensive, integrated end-to-end solution for rich media development, collaboration and management, achieving this by providing pre-built components, a flexible development framework, an online management system, and powerful web services, all accessible through the one platform.

Where other tools and resources focus on just one or two of these areas, the GLU Platform is unique in the market in that it covers each of these areas and provides a truly integrated end-to-end solution.

Significant release items include: a new domain, website, showcase and tutorials, new dashboard, management system screens, visual reporting, and project collaboration, and now full and automated commercial account access.

Key features include: Adobe ActionScript 3.0 Framework, Rich Media Component Suite, Real-time Video Encoding and Publishing, Media Ingestion and Conversion, Social Media Moderation Control, User Generated Content (”UGC”), Online Management System, Project Collaboration and Teamwork, Cloud Computing Architecture, Global Storage Delivery Network, Turn-key Google Analytics.

Visit the new GLU Platform website to see how you too can save significant Flash Platform development time, increase your project profits and enhance your work with sophisticated rich media features:

http://www.gluplatform.com/

GLU, a rich media management system, now provides full cloud-computing capabilities in addition to its current features, which include an ActionScript development framework and component suite, media encoding and publishing, mobile video ingestion and conversion, video advertising, user generated content, social media and turn-key analytics.

SYDNEY, Australia – May 12th, 2009 – At CeBIT Australia, DDX today announced the migration of its rich media platform, GLU, into ‘the cloud’, making it the first rich media community, management system and development framework to move to a full cloud-computing model, providing highly scalable and world-wide rich media capabilities and leading edge content delivery.

GLU enables web designers, developers and businesses the ability to enhance their rich media offering through powerful web-services and the ability to significantly reduce development time by leveraging pre-built components in their projects and through an online management system.

GLU previously provided an enhanced and more efficient rich media development solution, now in ‘the cloud’, GLU provides a world class and leading edge rich media cloud-computing platform and content delivery solution.

The new cloud-computing features in GLU mean that clients executing rich media projects can count on GLU to quickly scale with the success of their online business, campaign or project. Computing resources are automatically allocated as required.

“Rich media functionality has become increasingly more sophisticated and clients are expecting greater access to more powerful features and value for their investment.” said Sasha Merzliakov, Business Director & Partner of DDX. “We use GLU for our own production requirements to provide our clients with leading edge rich media functionality, significantly more quickly and affordably than ever before.”

In addition to the new cloud-computing features, GLU continues to provide powerful rich media functionality such as media encoding and publishing, mobile video ingestion and conversion, video advertising, user generated content, social media and turn-key analytics, integrated into GLU’s management system and component suite.

Rich media developers can quickly leverage powerful functionality which can then be managed by GLU’s easy-to-use online management system.

Pricing and Availability:

GLU is currently in public beta, however has been used commercially and successfully by clients such as MTV, MySpace, and Mambo. GLU pricing and formal commercial accounts are expected to be available within months. For commercial enquiries, please contact DDX.

For a free account, visit www.glu.com.au/register
 

DDX overview

DDX produce sophisticated rich media and rich internet application solutions.

DDX has completed work for companies across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific, including MySpace, MTV Networks, News Limited, Fairfax, and Fox Interactive Media.

Founded in 2003, DDX is based in Sydney Australia, and is one of 18 NSW companies selected to exhibit on the NSW Government stand at CeBIT Australia 2009.

For more information, visit www.ddx.com.au

Contact details

Sasha Merzliakov – Business Director & Partner
Studio 5, Level 1, 27 Commonwealth Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
T: +61 2 9267-0698 F: +61 2 8323-4299
www.ddx.com.au