As the year 2009 comes to an end, we think it is save to say that a lot of organizations have or will be moving to a virtual environment for their IT needs. With the proven business model and technology of the likes of VMWare, XEN and other for Virtualization and fabulous Cloud Environments from Amazon and Nirvanix you simply own it to your company (and your financial department) to at least consider these options.
We here at Razuna Ltd. are big fans of virtual environments and the cloud services offered by Amazon and Nirvanix. So, it is no wonder that we have also included the option to deploy Razuna – our Open Source Digital Asset Management Solution - in the cloud and also store the assets in the cloud as well.
Deploy Razuna to VMware, XEN, Parallels, KVM, VirtualIron, Amazon EC2
For over a year now, we are offering the Razuna Virtual Server and it has become big success for us. Since we are not only offering you a pre-made virtual image of Razuna with its own operating system, but you have the full options to configure your own operating system, bundle your own applications and set the amount of used RAM and size of Hard Disk yourself. Moreover, the build process lets you deploy directly to your favorite Virtualization platform like VMWare, XEN, KVM, etc.
But if you really want to go all the way to the cloud, then the possibility to deploy directly to Amazon’s EC2 offering is one click away. We have deployments ready for EC2 Small, EC2 Large, EC2 Extra Large, EC2 High CPU Medium and EC2 High CPU Extra Large environments.
By far, the Razuna Virtual Server it is the fastest and simplest way to go all virtual and right to the cloud!
Below is a short video walking you trough the steps to create your own Razuna Image.
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Storing your assets in the Cloud (Cloud Storage, Content Delivery Network)
Cloud Storage combined with a CDN (Content Delivery Network) gives your organization the possibility to stream those assets in the fastest possible way to your users. Be it for your company internal usage or for your customers, a CDN provides the best option for that.
We understand that a lot of organizations do need Razuna for streaming videos and images to their customers. Thus it is no wonder that we have included the Cloud Storage option within Razuna by default. Furthermore, the integration of Razuna with a Cloud Storage provider like Nirvanix (option for Amazon S3 is coming real soon) is a simple click away.
All you need to do to enable Nirvanix within Razuna, is to set your Nirvanix Key, Name and Password within the Administration panel and immediately you will store and retrieve all your assets within Razuna with your cloud storage provider.
Razuna, Virtualization and the Cloud makes a perfect team
Best of all the described options here is that it is already available for your to deploy! You too, can enter the world of Virtualization, Cloud computing and managing your assets today with the Razuna download.
Moreover, the concept of server virtualization, Amazon S3 and Nirvanix CDN is already a proven concept since our very own Razuna Hosted Platform (SaaS Digital Asset Management) is based on these technologies and used by over hundred of users each day.
Due to the fact that uploading for MacOS X users with RazunaDesktop currently fails (see our post why this is so) we have just updated the Razuna Hosted Version with a new Upload component, which we simply call RazunaUploader.
