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The new dedicated Razuna cloud server option

by on April 20, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

The all new Razuna Digital Asset Management server option

Today we’re introducing the new Razuna dedicated cloud server option that allows you or your organization to deploy your very own digital asset management system with dedicated RAM, disk drive and bandwidth.

The new Digital Asset Management servers bring more RAM, bigger hard drives and includes 6TB bandwidth

So, what is the difference between the previous Razuna cloud server and the new one? Where as previously, you had the option to select 4GB, 6GB or 8GB RAM the new servers all come with a default of 8GB RAM. Furthermore, all servers do come with a disk drive size of 1000GB (1TB).

But best of it all is that the new Razuna dedicated servers include a 6TB bandwidth per month (the European servers include 1TB bandwidth). That is a lot of bandwidth you can use to move your data back and forth. Surely, enough for delivering thousands of images and videos to your customers without worrying of the total cost.

Cheaper then the previous server option

With the new Razuna cloud server option we also made it much more attractive for large organizations and projects that require a lot of space and bandwidth to use a dedicated digital asset management server. In the past, you would have paid around $900/month for a server with 8GB RAM, a 1000GB hard disk and 1000GB traffic.

Now, with the new dedicated Razuna server option you pay for a server with 8GB RAM, a 1000GB hard disk and a 6TB bandwidth (European servers come with 1TB bandwidth) only $390/month. That is flat out, a saving of over 50% to the previous options.

All inclusive with your own Razuna Digital Asset Management server

Just as before, the new Razuna dedicated cloud servers includes our superb support for Razuna itself. We take care of the operating system (Linux, but if you want Windows 2008 we can do that as well), apply the latest patches, take care of all the security topics, maintain your database and of course, will upgrade the server automatically to the latest Razuna releases when available.

The dedicated Razuna cloud server and Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Eucalyptus

With Razuna you have the option to store your assets on the server itself or use your preferred cloud storage provider. Razuna supports Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Eucalytus as a cloud storage provider. In other words, you can deploy all your assets to the cloud. In the case of Amazon S3 and Nirvanix you can even enable the Content Delivery Network (Nirvanix CDN is included by default, with Amazon you need to enable Cloudfront).

We fully support your move to the cloud and will advise and deploy your preferred plan. Any Razuna cloud server can be setup to work with your cloud storage provider.

We are sure that the new Razuna Digital Asset Management server option will benefit all of our customers and allow you or your organization to fully deploy a professional Digital Asset Management System with confidence.

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Update for Razuna 1.1.4

by on February 21, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

We have found two issues after the release of Razuna 1.1.4 yesterday. The two issues, which are now fixed, are;

  1. eMails would not get send out properly. When you added or converted an asset you were supposed to receive an eMail. This did not work.
  2. Converting a movie to Flash. If you tried to convert a movie to a Flash format it did not work. There was an entry, but playing the movie resulted in an error.

We have updated the current downloads and the Razuna Virtual Server this afternoon. So, in case you have already downloaded Razuna 1.1.4 yesterday or today morning, we kindly ask you to re-download Razuna 1.1.4 again. You can simply overwrite the “global” folder (within the Razuna folder) and you will get all the fixes.

We apologize for this glitch.

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Razuna 1.1.4 is here

by on February 20, 2009 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

razuna_logo_200We are happy to announce the official release of Razuna 1.1.4, another fine release of the already much hyped open source Digital Asset Management. Razuna makes it easy for any individual, small firm or big organization to manage all aspects of Digital Assets in a totally hassle free environment.

Razuna 1.1.4 brings the following new features to the already existing features;

Folder Permissions
A folder can now be owned by a user only. Previously, you had to share a folder with the “Everyone” group. Now, you can simply uncheck the “Everyone” group and the folder will only be accessible to you. Others will not see the folder and all assets within are protected. Also, assets can not be found with the search once they are in a user protected folder. We also fixed an issue with inheritance of folder permissions.

Internet Explorer Compatible
It’s not always easy to develop for all platforms and all browsers alike. Even thought we only use CSS and Javascript, there are sometimes browser platform issues that can not be overcome easily. Razuna 1.1.4 is now compatible with IE 7 & 8. Whereas Razuna acts and looks much better with IE8 then IE7 (don’t turn on Compatible mode, that thing makes it worse)…

Performance Improvements
Due to a new version of the Application Server and its new feature to cache Javascript, CSS files and certain parts of Razuna, the new version is magnitudes faster. But we not only improved the loading of Razuna, but also streamlined our code much more. You can see an immediate effect of this new performance by uploading your assets. Assets are now uploaded in the back and you will be notified by eMail of the upload process, respectively when the assets has been uploaded to the server.

Miscellaneous
Our international users will be happy to see that Razuna can now search words with foreign characters (like German umlauts and Norwegian characters) correctly. You can now upload your own logo and it will be shown everywhere instead of the default Razuna logo. User timeouts are handled correctly and we made a couple of subtle design changes.

As always you can download Razuna 1.1.4 over at the Razuna download page. Users of Razuna 1.1.3 will get notified within the system. Upgrading to the new version is outlined over at the Razuna Wiki (it is a simple step and only takes about 5 minutes).

Did you know that you can deploy Razuna to your favorite virtual environment? With our Razuna Virtual Server Image you can deploy to Amazon EC2, VMWare (also Server and ESX(i)), Parallels, XEN, VirtualIron, etc. Simply head over to the dedicated Razuna Virtual Server page and build your own Virtual Server. You’ll literally be up and running within minutes. Deployment of a Digital Asset Management has never been easier.

If you need help you can join the growing Razuna Customer Community, especially companies can enjoy a hassle free Digital Asset Management deployment with our Support Subscription.

Last but not least, we would like to thank our Community for putting forward requests and helping us to make Razuna the best open source Digital Asset Management offering.

Thank you for using Razuna.

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MySQL Landscape and other databases

by on December 16, 2008 in Razuna

Since we have just recently finished the MySQL integration for Razuna (coming in the imminent 1.1.3 release) we have learned our fair share of the MySQL Server and how it differs from other databases (we will post a separate post about our experiences adding support for MySQL in Razuna and how it differs from Oracle soon).

In any way, I just found this very informative blog post entitled “The New MySQL Landscape” which talks about the different options you got for deploying a MySQL Server. Ever heard of OurDelta or Drizzle?

Especially, the Drizzle project looks interesting since it is a re-making of MySQL started primarily by Brian Aker, who worked as MySQL’s Director of Architecture for years. Brian is now at Sun and, along with a handful of others at Sun and elsewhere, is ripping out a lot of the stuff in a fork of MySQL that doesn’t get used much, needlessly complicated the code, or is simply no longer needed.

Personally, we think the H2 database is a very reliable and powerful alternative to the MySQL database. H2 can be run as a embedded database, in-memory, clustered or as a server itself. H2 has even the capability to run in a specific database mode so that you wont have to change most of your SQL code to make it work with H2. The H2 database is built on Java and available under a open source license.

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