The iVAST MPEG-4 Platform™ is a comprehensive and integrated suite of digital media management products and systems that are standards-based and business-driven. Cloud Systems will provide development services based on iVAST's end-to-end solution that covers the creation, distribution and presentation of high-quality digital audio and video, along with compelling interactive media.
"Cloud Systems has a reputation for providing cutting-edge production capabilities," said Ben Silva, iVAST's Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Business Development. "With our powerful suite of MPEG-4 production tools in the hands of the talented team of artists and technicians at Cloud Systems, content owners can begin to explore exciting new forms of interactive digital media communications."
With the recent opening of the iVAST Studio Los Angeles, a state-of-the-art MPEG-4 development and training facility, and the partnership with San Francisco-based Cloud Systems, iVAST is creating a worldwide developers community for MPEG-4 applications.
"We have partnered with iVAST because we were impressed by their complete package of MPEG-4 tools," said Gordon Saint Clair, president and CTO, Cloud Systems. "Our core philosophy is that we make our clients look great by providing superior services and the highest quality media; iVAST's technology will allow us serve the emerging MPEG-4 production market and deliver extraordinary results."
The iVAST suite of products includes:
Cloud Systems specializes in high quality media encoding, CD and DVD authoring and Internet or Intranet development. Select Cloud Systems clients include: Absinthe Films, Akamai, Bank of America, Levi Strauss & Co., Nikken Sekkei, Sega of America, Wells Fargo and Sun Microsystems.
About Cloud Systems
Based in San Francisco, Calif., Cloud Systems’ main service areas are
programming and media production, consulting, specialized media encoding,
media integration, and hardware or system integration. Their highly trained
staff of veterans from the media encoding, broadcast television, and video
production industries are expert in identifying and implementing the most
appropriate technical and creative solutions to fit the clients' project.
Cloud Systems can create virtually anything--web sites, CD-ROMs, animations,
and print materials, to name a few. Their proprietary media encoding
techniques are unsurpassed in the industry. For more information, please
visit www.cloudsystems.com.
About iVAST, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., iVAST is the world leader in end-to-end MPEG-4 solutions. The iVAST MPEG-4 Platform™ extends the success of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 open standards by revolutionizing the distribution of interactive audio/video content across broadband and broadcast networks. The iVAST Platform, built on the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 international standard, is a suite of software products that enable the creation, management, delivery and playback of interactive and enhanced rich media experiences for entertainment, enterprise, and related markets. iVAST also offers creative services through its new, state-of-the-art studio in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.ivast.com.
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Media Contacts:
Jennifer Toton
iVAST, Inc.
(408) 496-0671
jt@ivast.com
Brianne Miller (for iVAST)
Landis Communications, Inc.
(415) 561-0888 / mobile: (415) 309-4314
brianne@landispr.com
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