Layercake, an Australian digital engineering company and Oracle partner, has announced that its media orchestration and automation platform, Streamcake, can now run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This, says the company, provides Layercake’s customers with greater choice to help them drive innovation and digital excellence.
A pioneer in digital, media and live production, Layercake provides automation and orchestration solutions for media production and distribution. Its flagship platform, Streamcake, enables broadcasters, sports organisations and enterprises to streamline complex workflows, automate infrastructure deployment and scale content delivery on a single, highly scalable platform.
This makes it easier and more cost-effective for broadcasters and media companies to modernise live production, simplify content management and delivery, and enhance the quality and reliability of live and on-demand video experiences.
With Streamcake running on OCI, Layercake can expand its multicloud strategy and enable customers to leverage the high performance, scalability and security of OCI for their software-defined video workflows, including livestreams, video-on-demand generation, and publishing.
The Streamcake solution provides the following capabilities: broadcast media production powered by Grass Valley’s GV Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP) and integrated into OCI; digital media production and streaming through flexible platforms such as Ant Media and Bitmovin, orchestrated by Streamcake; and smart orchestration and automation that provides compute, storage, networking, software, monitoring, captions, artificial intelligence (AI)/(machine learning) ML overlays, and monetisation workflows.
With this approach, broadcasters and content owners gain cloud-native agility, predictable cost models, and global scalability, while eliminating the complexity traditionally associated with multi-vendor broadcast and streaming workflows.
“Media organisations are under pressure to deliver broadcast-quality content at digital speed and scale,” said Padraig O’Donovan, CEO of Layercake. “Streamcake not only modernises production workflows, but also unlocks new commercial models for broadcasters, sports leagues and digital platforms worldwide.
“We are pleased to partner with Oracle to offer our customers new ways to host their media workflows.”