Research project VISION Cloud wins IBC 2013 Special Award
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The FP7 project VISION Cloud was presented with a Special Award at the prestigious IBC 2013 event in Amsterdam this month for its innovative work applied to the Media industry. The Department of Computing Science at Umeå University is one of the collaborators in the project.
VISION Cloud, an FP7 project creating a next generation storage cloud, was presented with a Special Award at the prestigious International Broadcasts Conference (IBC) 2013 event on Sept. 15.
IBC 2013 will be marked as one of the biggest industry fairs for media technology and with even more attendees than in years before. Professional visitors from all around the world where able to see and experience technologies for the future of media.
In this context the VISION Cloud project is honored and proud to have been awarded with the IBC Special Award 2013.
VISION Cloud, Virtualized Storage Services Foundation for the Future Internet, is a research project with the objective to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services, facilitating the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications.
Convened by IBM's Haifa Research Lab, the project brings together 14 collaborators. Beside Umeå University the consortium consists of Deutsche Welle and RAI as media partners, with Engineering Ingeneria Informatica (Italy), France Telecom, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece), SAP, Siemens, SNIA Europe (UK), Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo (Spain), Telenor (Norway), and the University of Messina (Italy).
Michael Crimp, CEO of IBC, said, "What impressed the judges most about VISION Cloud is the breadth of the collaboration, from academic institutions to leading IT businesses. They worked together to deliver real, practical innovation in the media industry. The IBC awards programme celebrates partnerships working together to solve creative, organisational and commercial challenges, and it is clear that VISION Cloud meets that high ideal."
About IBC IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. The event's unparalleled exhibition and agenda setting conference encompass the very latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and R&D making it essential for everyone's understanding of the industry and its future.
Image above: Francisco Hernandez and Ewnetu Bayuh Lakew are to of the researchers from Umeå University working in the project VISION Cloud.
