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Coming up in Razuna 1.4.8: Add assets from your custom path

by on December 31, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

The other day we outlined “Import & Export of metadata” that is coming in Razuna 1.4.8. Today, we would like to show you another new feature of Razuna 1.4.8; Adding assets from your custom path.

This new feature alone will delight many customers as it allows, among other options, to import your files from any path on your server to Razuna in one single operation. Especially, for large scale imports, there is huge benefit in it, because it will import your data to Razuna successively and include all subfolders and assets within, without any browser limitation because the assets reside already on the server.

Of course, the options for “linking to folders” and “adding assets from the server” are still available, but this new option will add assets to Razuna (instead of linking them) and will be able to include subfolders and re-create them within Razuna.

Especially for customers who migrate from another system this option will save them lots of headache. In other words, simply dump your current library to one folder and make this folder available on your Razuna server. Once completed, enter the path to your library in the new “Import from path” window and Razuna will automatically read your whole library, include all assets, all subfolders, read in the metadata (did you know that Razuna can read & write metadata since version 1.0?), create previews of your assets and make them available in Razuna and thus within the high powered search. To top it off, with the new ”Import & Export of metadata” option you can add your own metadata right away as well!

Our tests with over 500GB of image, video, audio and document assets have checked out successfully and we are extremely excited to include this feature in the upcoming Razuna 1.4.8 release.

How to get Razuna

Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server offering.

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Razuna 1.4.7 is here – Labels and other improvements

by on November 17, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Today marks the day that we are proudly bringing Razuna 1.4.7 to the world, another upgrade to the already most used open source Digital Asset Management System. We are extremely exited about this release, as we made major improvements in this version and brings one new feature to Razuna. The one new feature in Razuna 1.4.7 is called “Labels”.

Labels

The concept of Labels in Razuna is very similar to, say to the way how Labels work in Gmail. Labels are dynamic and can be assigned to any asset. In other words, Labels do all the work folders do and give you an extra bonus: you can add more than one Label to a asset. Once you’ve created a label, you can view all the items with that label by clicking the label name.

Labels can be applied to assets, folders, collections and comments with a easy to use textfield. You simply enter the label you want to apply and the Label system offers you a choice from pre-defined labels or you can add a new one by entering it within the textfield alone.

Administrators will love the option to turn on or off, the option to allow users to add labels by entering them in the label field or to only select from existing ones. Administrators can also add or edit labels in a dedicated Administration interface.

Important to know

With Razuna 1.4.7 we have improved the open source digital asset management system even further. We have updated the application engine to the latest version (OpenBD 2.0), made design improvements for long file names and input fields, added compatibility to those who run Razuna on a secure server (SSL), updated all Javascript libraries and updated the Upload tool so it works again with the latest browsers (especially with HTML5 capable browsers), updated the FTP handling, changed how users log into Razuna (so it works better and faster on large libraries), made improvement to scale better with cloud platforms and many more changes.

Additionally, we fixes issues that came up after the 1.4.6 release. Some fixed were made to widgets, FTP connections, version upload works now for Windows better, a security fix for searches, made some fixes to the API (thank you all for reporting) and fixed and issue with custom fields.

All in all, we are satisfying over 50 issues with Razuna 1.4.7. We are happy that Razuna 1.4.7 meets our customers expectations. The full release notes for Razuna 1.4.7 are also available.

At this point, we like to thank the Razuna community and all of our customers who are providing valuable feedback and keep driving Razuna forward. Thank you all for making Razuna better with every release!

How to get Razuna

Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server offering.

The Razuna Hosted Platform has already been upgraded to the latest release. Our Razuna Cloud Server customers will be updated individually.

 

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Adobe to make their ColdFusion product open source

by on April 1, 2009 in CFML

In an unexpected move, Adobe have released their ColdFusion product to the open source community. In the associated press release Adobe stated the following reasons for the move:

“Adobe have always tried to bring a better and more capable product to the users. In recent years, however, improvements have plateaued. With the release of OpenBlueDragon and Railo Open Source there are thousands of people out there using those two products. This has made it increasingly difficult to justify the ongoing high cost of developing the ColdFusion Server on our own. In the end it’s the user who suffers.

The logical conclusion is to open up the problem and try to crowd source the server in the hope that the developer community picks it up.

We may see some teething problems at the start, but we think it will become the standard and everyone will work together to make it the best CFML server out there.”

However, some industry experts think this is just another example of Adobe trying to secure its position in the market. A source that wanted to remain anonymous said;

“Adobe has always tried to tight their customers to their ColdFusion Server offering. Some may start to question what value Adobe are adding; if they don’t control the core engine of ColdFusion server anymore; how can they make millions with open sourcing the server now?”

For Railo this move could as well mean the end of their open source offering. This has come to no better time, since Railo just released their Railo Open Source version today, the exact day that Adobe has decided to release their ColdFusion Server as open source. Might this be another move from the “giant” Adobe to control the CFML market?

Railo were contacted; and declined to comment, except to state that Railo considered the CFML server market dead and that building extensions and hosting for CFML projects were the tools of the future.

OpenBlueDragon has released a statement that they have studied the algorithm and have noted some bizarre elements; for instance is the CFDocument syntax, a feature that will create PDF documents from any web site, based on open source libraries. One might wonder, why this is so, since Adobe is the creator of PDF.

Adam Lehman, Adobe’s ColdFusion Product Manager has apparently stepped down in what the company say is a completely unrelated matter. However, inside sources say he is absolutely against the move and feels that Adobe have ‘thrown in the towel’.

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Razuna Virtual Server Image available for different environments

by on January 16, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

razuna_logo_200As of immediately, Razuna is available as a virtual server image for Amacon EC2, VMWare, Xen, Parallels, KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and VirtualIron. With this offering, you can deploy one of the most used open source Digital Asset Management System, within minutes in your environment.

But the Razuna Virtual Server Image is not just a virtual image you can download. We have gone a step further and have teamed up with the fine people at Elastic Server. With their service you are able to build your own Razuna Virtual Server on your choice of Operating System (Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.04 and Daisy Linux available for now), add additional applications (MySQL, Apache, etc.) and configure your hardware, like available RAM, Hard Disk size and Network settings. Once done, your individual Razuna Virtual Server Image will be build and made available for download.

Actually, it has never been easier to deploy any Digital Asset Management System before. Try it now, head over to the Razuna download page and configure your own Razuna Virtual Server Image.

About Elastic Server
CohesiveFT (the people behind Elastic Server) is the leader in automated software assembly and a complement to virtualization and cloud computing solutions. The Elastic Server® platform is a web-based “factory” for assembling, testing, and deploying custom stacks and servers to virtual machines or clouds. These custom Elastic Servers can be comprised of open source, third-party or proprietary software components from multiple vendors, saved as templates, updated, augmented, or redeployed in minutes. Made-to-order application stacks mean faster assembly and limitless configurations.

About Razuna
Razuna is a enterprise digital asset management/media asset management with an integrated web content management that delivers and makes management of your digital assets a simple task! By using Razuna you get the benefit of it being free and open source and supported by a professional company.

With Razuna, your information can be collected, consolidated, verified, filtered, mined and always be available and secure. Razuna does all this while requiring less hardware and fewer administrators, for the lowest overall cost of ownership. A powerful solution like Razuna will achieve significant efficiency gains as well as consistency throughout the organization.

Since Razuna is based on open standards (J2EE/CFML/SQL/XML) you can rest assured that Razuna can scale with your business. For international organizations that hold already thousands of assets, Razuna can take up on your existing assets with powerful import and export tools.

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