PPLive with Microsoft: Using Azure Cloud Platform to provide video service

According to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, Microsoft and China video service provider PPLive signed a cooperation agreement in Monday. The two sides agreed that pplive will use Microsoft's cloud Platform Azure to carry out some of the network video business.

This is the first time Microsoft has worked with a Chinese new media company in the field of cloud computing. According to the agreement, PPLive's "Asia Television Network" (ATN) will use Microsoft Azure as its core architecture.

PPLive's Asia television network is a local content channel for paid network TV users. The channel accepts content from global content providers and grants content to the relevant service providers in revenue-sharing mode.

Windows Azure is a Microsoft-launched cloud computing platform that leverages its data center to provide host services for network applications. Microsoft announced the product as early as October 2008, and then built servers in dozens of countries and regions in Asia, such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei.

The two sides officially signed an agreement in Shanghai today. Abinadab）

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