ARMONK, N.Y. and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 23,
2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM InterConnect 2015 -- Kaltura
(www.kaltura.com), provider of the leading video technology
platform, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced they have been
selected by Turner Broadcasting System Latin America, Inc. to power
a new authenticated on-demand service that will be offered through
Turner's Multimedia Service Operator (MSO) partners in Latin America and Brazil.
The new service launched on February
22nd when Turner streamed the Academy Awards
ceremony over the Internet across the Latin America region. The service is powered
by Kaltura's market-leading OTT TV platform, and is hosted on IBM's
SoftLayer cloud infrastructure, which provides market leading
performance, control and scalability. The service includes live
television channels and video-on-demand television episodes. It is
offered in Spanish and Portuguese and available on iOS and Android
smartphones and tablets.
"We are excited about our innovative TV Everywhere offering,"
said Whit Richardson, executive vice
president of Distribution and Marketing, Turner Latin America. "Kaltura and IBM are
providing us with a highly advanced platform, which assures we
deliver the premium standard of service our customers expect."
"We are truly honored to have been chosen by such a global
powerhouse in the media industry to power its next generation
multi-device over-the-top TV experience," said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura chairman and CEO. "We are
excited to provide to Turner and their audience a joint solution
together with our strategic partner, IBM. In the spirit of the
Academy Awards ceremony - the Cloud TV Oscar goes to…IBM and
Kaltura, for providing the best OTT TV Platform on top of the best
cloud infrastructure."
"Your media content is only as accessible as the cloud it lives
on," said Steve Canepa, general
manager, IBM Media and Entertainment. "In the connected-consumer
era, Media and Entertainment firms require a new level of
enterprise agility to provide the right experience on the right
device at the right time. We are delighted to assist Turner to
capture this opportunity through IBM's secure, efficient and
scalable enterprise cloud with our partner Kaltura."
Riding on a global network of 40 data centers in major markets
around the world, IBM Cloud provides the performance, scale,
control and security that enterprises seek to run key operations
and engage their customers in the cloud.
For more information on IBM InterConnect 2015, visit
http://www.ibm.com/press/interconnect2015.
About Turner Latin
America
Turner Latin
America is among the largest multi-media groups in the
region, with 18 wholly-owned pay television channels, a free-to-air
broadcast channel (Chilevision), a joint-venture news channel (CNN
Chile), multiple web sites and one third-party network in our
portfolio, including pan-regional channel management and
advertising sales for the Warner Channel. Turner Latin America distributes and sells our
networks in over 40 countries. We organize our networks into
five clusters: Kids & Teens (Cartoon Network, Boomerang and
Tooncast); Movies & Series (TNT, Space, TCM, I.Sat and Warner
Channel); News (CNN International, CNN en Espanol, CNN Chile and
HLN); Trends (TBS veryfunny, HTV, MuchMusic, Glitz*, Infinito and
truTV) and Sports (Esporte Interativo and Esporte Interativo
Nordeste).
About IBM Cloud
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enterprise cloud enabling secure data and infrastructure
integration in the cloud. For more information about cloud
offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on
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Join the conversation #ibmcloud.
About Kaltura
Kaltura's mission is to power any video
experience. A recognized leader in the OTT TV (Over the Top
TV), OVP (Online Video Platform), EdVP (Education Video Platform)
and EVP (Enterprise Video Platform) markets, Kaltura has emerged as
the fastest growing video platform, and as the one with the widest
use-case and appeal. Kaltura is deployed globally in thousands of
enterprises, media companies, service providers and educational
institutions and engages hundreds of millions of viewers at home,
in work, and at school. The company is committed to its core
values of openness, flexibility, and collaboration, and is the
initiator and backer of the world's leading open-source
video-management project, which is home to more than 100,000
community members. For more information visit
www.kaltura.com, www.kaltura.org, or www.html5video.org.
Media Contacts:
Lisa
Bennett
Kaltura
Phone: (347) 896-2860
Email: lisa.bennett@kaltura.com
Caroline Rittenberry
Turner
Phone: (404) 510-1035
Email: caroline.rittenberry@turner.com
Alexander Aizenberg
IBM Media Relations
Phone: (212) 671-9616
Email: aizenberg@us.ibm.com
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