Beet.TV: New Live Streaming Standard Championed by Akamai at NAB

LAS VEGAS -- Some 50 of the industry's leading video services companies are rallying around a unifed live video streaming protocol known as DASH, says Akamai's Will Law, Principal Architect, Media Division, in this inteview with Beet.TVThe industry group around the initiative is called the DASH Promotors Group. Akamai, Adobe Microsoft, Qualcomm Netflix and several other are members.Also in the interview, Law explains Akamai's strategies around increased global demand for video streaming.Andy Plesser

Microsoft: Moving the World's Media Streaming to the Cloud

LAS VEGAS, Microsoft has taken the wraps off its Media Plaform which is now hosted on Windows Azure, here at the NAB Show.Yesterday, we spoke with Brian Goldfarb, Director of Product Marketing for Windows Azure, about the industry demand leading to the product launch which is expected for later this year.He explains how the "cloud" is becoming an integral part of the media dellivery stratetgy for global companies. Gearing up for demand, he says in this inteview that Microsoft is buying "hundreds of thousands of servers."Andy Plesser