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Some changes to our Razuna Hosted Platform

by on July 13, 2010 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

There have been a lot of changes going on over at Razuna and we would like to share them with you.

Razuna Cloud Server

First off, our Razuna Cloud Server offering is being taken on by a lot of customers already. We haven’t even formalized a official press release and clients see already the benefit of a dedicated Razuna server in the cloud. The Razuna Cloud Servers offer all the power and control of a traditional hosted server whilst giving you an unmatched combination of instant flexibility, ease of use and cost efficiency. If you’re looking into a Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution then we urge you to check out the Razuna Cloud Server offering.

One plan for our Razuna Hosted Platform

It is no secret that our Razuna Hosted Platform is one of the most used Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution for small to medium businesses that need a Hosted Digital Asset Management on the go. Not only, does it work as expected, it gives you the fastest and easiest access to collaborate and share your assets with your team within minutes after signing up.

Lately, the Razuna team has put a lot of thinking on how to improve the Razuna Hosted Platform and we think we have come up with a solution to satisfy all clients.

As of immediately, we are removing the “Basic” Plan that was available for $5/month and are instead offering the “Business” Plan, which is now called “Pro” Plan, for only $1.80/GB/month. That means, there is now only one paid Plan, which brings all the service that you came to love in Razuna.

We will, of course, continue to provide our Free plan. The Free plan is designed so customers can use a Hosted Digital Asset Management be it private users, small groups or a company. Going forward, our Free plan will no longer provide the option to convert images, videos or audios to different formats, add groups to folders & collections or accessing some of the functions in the Administration. These will be available as part of our “Pro” Plan.

We’re confident these changes will be a great fit for businesses of all sizes looking for a Hosted Digital Asset Management, but we know that the changes to the free plan, however minor, will be inconvenient to some. We apologize in advance. If you’re getting real business value out of our service we hope you’ll consider signing up to the $1.80/GB/month Plan.

And as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts on these changes. Feel free to leave a comment here.

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Razuna 1.3.5 is here – more power to the open source digital asset management

by on January 15, 2010 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Razuna Ltd. today announced the general availability of Razuna 1.3.5, a major upgrade to the world’s most advanced open-source Digital Asset Management System. Razuna has seen major adoption at organizations throughout the world, and is free to download and use. Razuna is based on a completely open source stack and has been downloaded thousands of times since its release.

Razuna 1.3.5 brings low cost digital asset management to every organizations, and dramatically reduces the barrier to organize and collaborate on your media library, be it video, audio, images, or documents. Customers already enjoy the benefit of managing and accessing all of their digital asset management requirements with Razuna, and Razuna can also easily be deployed to cloud environments.

This release builds on Razuna’s history of delivering a low-cost, innovative, and Enterprise-enabled open source Digital Asset Management solution. New features in Razuna 1.3.5 include:

Full support for Audio files
Razuna now includes full support for audio files, including the ability to convert audio from one format to another on the fly. Razuna users have long enjoyed full support for video and images and this same functionality is now available for audio. All popular Audio formats are supported, and audio files are played directly in the browser.

WordPress Plugin and extended API
The Razuna WordPress Plugin makes it easy to publish video and images to sites powered by WordPress. With the WordPress Plugin, organizations are one step closer to centralizing all of their assets. Enhancements to the Razuna API make it easier for organizations and developers to integrate external systems to Razuna.

Performance Enhancements
Razuna’s codebase and JavaScript libraries have undergone a complete rewrite. What this means to our users is a tremendous performance boost, allowing customers to find and serve their digital assets more quickly and conveniently.

All in all there are over 70 changes, bug fixes, design fixes and under the hood improvements in Razuna 1.3.5. Customers of our Razuna Hosted Platform are already working with the latest Razuna version and have been enjoying those improvements already.

Razuna 1.3.5 is available for immediate download at http://razuna.org. The introduction video below shows you some of the new features of Razuna 1.3.5 (same video is also available over at the Vimeo site).

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Deploy Razuna in a virtualized environment or in the cloud

by on December 9, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

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.

Nirvanix

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.

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