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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Alibaba Cloud, IOC launch Olympic Broadcasting Services Cloud

The Alibaba, IOC effort revolves around scaling content distribution across multiple channels.


Alibaba Cloud and the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Olympic Broadcasting Services unit launched OBS Cloud, a cloud broadcasting platform that will be in place for the Tokyo 2020 games.

The two parties announced a partnership in January 2017 and Alibaba will be the preferred cloud and e-commerce provider through 2028.

Alibaba Cloud has been rapidly growing in revenue and is the dominant public cloud provider in China. The company's deal with the IOC highlights Alibaba Cloud's global ambitions. In its latest quarter, Alibaba Cloud was on an annual revenue run rate of $2.84 billion. Alibaba Cloud is also among the top public cloud companies in 2018 and has global scale. Gartner considers Alibaba Cloud among the six infrastructure as a service player that matter and in the first half of the year the strong only got stronger.

Joey Tan, general manager of Alibaba Cloud's global strategic accounts and sports business unit, said the IOC partnership is designed to solve efficiency issues and lower the barriers to create content. In addition, Alibaba Cloud sees media as a key industry.

"We want to make sure that OBS Cloud will accelerate the pace of transformation and allow the industry to innovate," said Tan.

Traditionally, the IOC's Olympic Broadcasting Services division set up an International Broadcast Centre to deliver broadcast footage to international media companies. With video content exploding on traditional as well as digital and social outlets, it became increasingly difficult for broadcasters to lug hardware and equipment to host cities.



Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of OBS, said the cloud effort with Alibaba was needed because the "additional content for digital and social media has become a big challenge." The increased content production for the Olympics didn't scale given that broadcasters typically used fiber or satellite to deliver footage. "Now broadcasters will be able to get access to feeds, store and edit remotely," he said.

A cloud platform will be able to scale along with content distribution demands as well as reduce the physical footprint needed for the broadcast center. OBS Cloud will now provide most of the visual and audio assets of the Olympic Games to Rights Holding Broadcasters. Broadcasters will also be able to set up their own content creation, management and distribution systems on OBS Cloud.

To build OBS Cloud, which is now in beta testing with select broadcasters, the IOC is leveraging a host of Alibaba Cloud services from media processing to security to storage to bare metal computer running on Intel's Xeon processors. OBS Cloud will also allow broadcasters to use the platform and test out programs in a sandbox.

The plan for OBS Cloud is to further roll out the beta to more broadcasters and continue to iterate on everything from computing to storage and connectivity, said Exarchos.



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