A great deal of buzz surrounds cloud solutions, but media professionals are rightly concerned about security, transmission time and cost, and incomplete solutions. Empress has long been solving customers cloud challenges, and can now offer an even broader range of solutions.

eMAM is a complete system and can offer a hybrid solution with different pools of content in whatever locations are best for customer requirements. We can manage content online or offline in different locations with different security levels. Admins can dynamically set access and permissions using LDAP or manually at the asset category or user group (role) level.

A major problem for rich media is the online delivery of native content, especially for long form and high definition video. The greatest opportunity for eMAM is to provide authorized users with access to all of the current and historical content through proxy files, with much of the collaboration done online to minimize movement of large files. When original files are required, eMAM can accelerate worldwide delivery and download using Amazon Cloud Front running EC2 servers and S3 storage, Microsoft Windows Azure, ComputeNext cloud service partners, or other CDN solutions. Accelerated transfer systems are available using Unlimi-Tech Software File Catalyst or Aspera Enterprise Server systems.