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Razuna 1.4 – Introduction Video

by on September 28, 2010 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

As promised in the Razuna 1.4 announcement blog post here is the Introduction video to Razuna 1.4. Enjoy.

(Tip: Watch it in HD and if YouTube is blocked on your end then jump over to Vimeo)

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Meet Razuna 1.4 – now even more power to the open source Digital Asset Management

by on September 21, 2010 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

We are more then pleased to announce the immediate availability of Razuna 1.4. This release brings over 100 enhancements and is a culmination of half a year work by many contributors. You can download Razuna 1.4 directly from our website (Standalone Server, WAR or Virtual Server for your virtualization platform) or update within your own installation (detailed upgrade path is available here).

Major new features in this release include:

  • The option to store assets on Amazon S3 & Eucalyptus. Thus, Razuna can not only run in the cloud but also use all major Cloud Storage Providers.
  • Backup & Restore functionality. Upgrading Razuna with ease.
  • Complete Re-Design of the Firsttime Wizard. Creating or migrating your Digital Asset Management has never been easier. Really!
  • Lightbox Management for shared folders & collections.
  • Added support for IBM’s Websphere and DB2 Database.
  • New Upload Tool. Drag & Drop assets from your desktop to Razuna.
  • Complete Re-Design for many parts within Razuna.
  • OGG and WebM video support.
  • Added Metadata writing for audios, videos and documents.
  • A lot of HTML5 goodies.
  • Major speed improvement.

Developers and network admins will appreciate the new backup & restore, enhanced permission settings and rich API functions. As a user, you will love that Razuna feels much snappier, has the option to drag & drop your assets right from your desktop and the light design which lets you focus on your assets.

We could go on, but we are busy producing a video for you to see all the goodies. (As of this time, we haven’t quite finished the video, but we just couldn’t hold off the release anymore. Video will come in another blog post :-) )

Update: Attached is the new video for Razuna 1.4. (Watch it in HD or jump over to Vimeo for awesome quality)

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Razuna 1.4: Upgrade from 1.3.5 notes

by on September 20, 2010 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

While we are slowly rolling out the Razuna 1.4 release (some of you might already see the Update notification in your 1.3.5 installation), we want to make sure that you make a special note of the 1.3.5 to 1.4 upgrade path.

Upgrading from your current Razuna 1.3.5 to Razuna 1.4 is fully supported, but it needs a bit more dedication then the upgrades in the past. Therefore, please head over to the dedicated Upgrade Guide for Razuna 1.3.5 to 1.4. As you can see, we made a script available and we kindly ask you to take some time to run through it.

Updating from Razuna 1.4 onwards will be a one step path, as you only will need to export the Razuna data and import it to the new instance. Thus dramatically increasing time to deployment for Razuna.

Razuna 1.4 brings over 100 enhancements to the Razuna platform. The Razuna 1.4 announcement will follow in a couple of hours, but we wanted to make sure that those of you who get theirs hands on it earlier are aware of this update path.

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Razuna 1.4: Some design changes

by on September 14, 2010 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

On the heel of the announcement of the new Shared Folder & Collection settings we are also introducing a small, but nevertheless important, re-design for Razuna 1.4.

A new home for the basket and favorites

First off, we only have the folder explorer on the left side. The basket and favorites tabs have been moved to the bottom of the browser screen. Like this, both the basket and the favorites are out of your way and can be shown when needed. Furthermore, with those tabs at the bottom we are introducing “drag & drop”. This means that you will be able to simply drag & drop the asset to your basket or favorites.

Form fields and Buttons with focus

We also have given our input fields and buttons some love. They got nice rounded corners and when being used are highlighted with a red border. Our beta testers have told us that this improved their work a lot and thus we are more then happy to be able to introduce this small change for Razuna 1.4.

Images, thumbnails and icons

In Razuna 1.4 we also changed the thumbnail view to make room for 5 images in a row and automatically resize all thumbnail previews to the same size. This gives it a much cleaner feeling.

Additionally, we added icons to each asset. Each asset can be added to the favorites (star icon), added to the basket (arrow icon) and moved to the trash (trash icon) with a simply click on each respective icon. Also, the top bar has received a small icon overhaul and we hope those icons reflect better what the action behind them is.

If you have a Razuna Hosted Account with us or a Razuna Cloud Server then the new look & feel is already available in your account.

The new look & feel is also part of the soon to be released Razuna 1.4 release for those who wish to host Razuna yourself.

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