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ZEE5 to Host its Content Library in Association with Microsoft Azure

3Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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ZEE5 to Host its Content Library in Association with Microsoft Azure

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.’s digital entertainment platform ZEE5 along with Microsoft Azure is all set to host a library of multi-genre and multi-language content. Through this continued association between both the companies, ZEE5 is planning to leverage Microsoft Azure solutions to empower its platform on an international stage in the near future. “Ensuring consistent performance for a seamless customer experience and security are of paramount importance to us, and we are extremely happy to partner with Microsoft for this. The elasticity and security they provide have been key to deploying our new service, and in building a more scalable platform,” said Amit Goenka, CEO, Zee International and ZEE5 Global. On-demand video streaming platform ZEE5 makes use of a fully-manag...

Microsoft partners with cloud enterprise platform InMobi

Microsoft Corp has announced a global partnership with a marketers enterprise platform InMobi to enable new-age CMOs in their transformational journey from digital to mobile marketing. Under the new partnership, InMobi will be migrating to Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud provider sealing a technology collaboration with Microsoft. At the same time, InMobi is also expanding its platform through its InMobi Marketing Cloud. As per company's website, The Marketing Cloud will enable marketers to get a 360-degree view of every customer, uncovering insights that help them design customer journeys for engagement, action and measurement while remaining committed toward the privacy rights of the customer. Commenting on the strategic partnership with InMobi, Satya Nadella, CEO, Microso...

Big Data Startup Qubole Raised $25M Funding

Santa Clara based big-data and analytics startup Qubole has raised a funding of $25 million from Singtel Innov8 and Harmony Partners on Thursday. The round also saw participation from its existing investors Charles River Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners who also infused in the funding, making it to a total of $75 million. The funds will be utilised to expand its operations in Asia-Pacific region, superheaded from its sales office in Singapore led by co-founder and CTO Joydeep Sen Sarma. “There is a significant opportunity for big data in the Asia Pacific region. Qubole makes it easy for enterprises to access best-in-class analytics for quicker, more accurate decision making in a cost-efficient way. We are excited to p...