Universal Shifting to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform for Live-Action, Animation Production

”Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has its head in the cloud — and now it’s going to push its production teams there.

The company has embarked on a major multiyear strategy to move its studios’ film and TV production from in-house servers to the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The goal is to let creatives collaborate more easily and efficiently across geographic regions and with outside vendors, said Michael Wise, CTO of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group…

A key reason Universal Filmed Entertainment picked Microsoft Azure is the roster of industry partners it has lined up…Adobe Systems, Technicolor, Bebop Technology, StratusCore and Teradici.”

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