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Optimally Manage the Data Center with Cisco and Microsoft

Cisco is continuously innovating to help businesses reinvent the enterprise data center and deliver superior IT services for greater business impact. To that end, Cisco has developed robust infrastructure management tools for your Cisco Unified Computing System data center that work with and extend tools you may already use to monitor, provision, configure, and orchestrate your Microsoft server and application software.

Monetization using midstream ads and highlight creation

Microsoft and its partners provided an infrastructure that helped to provide NBC, the Canadian television company (CTV), and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) with streaming content of the 2010 Winter Olympics. This article describes the general IT architecture and tools used to support these three broadcasters, and offers specific details about how NBC inserted midstream ads in both the live video and video-on-demand (VOD) scenarios and created and delivered highlight clips.
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