In today's global economy, the world never sleeps. So we had to create an infrastructure that didn’t either.

Ask anyone who’s ever renovated a house and they’ll tell you it was worth it, but oh, man, what a ton of work.

Media Solutions is no different. We recently completed a total redesign of the infrastructure supporting our rich media platform. It took unfathomable sums of energy and dedication, but it truly was worth it. This is the system used to host and transmit every HP CEO-to-all-employee meeting around the globe simultaneously to HP employees. It's a system that can support more than 1500 users joining an event per second. It can read/write at 300 Mb/second. And it has fail-over-redundancy and load-balancing from the clustered servers—virtually eliminating hardware single points of failure.

Made up of 16 internal and 16 external servers, this infrastructure allows us further to support and connect directly within HP, legacy EDS systems, and to the "rest of the world" reliably 24 x 7 x 365. All available to you with just one call (or email) to Media Solutions.
 
Sexy? Not so much. Impressive? You bet, bro. Especially if you’re trying to download a 15-minute keynote video in a hotel room in Brunei.

SECURITY THAT'S HYPER-SAFE, ULTRA-SENSITIVE.

HP’s Media Portal includes several security features which handle as much or as little content protection as is needed. Here are the main methods:

• HTTPS – for secured browser communications.
• User validation (requiring user login with individual passwords).
• Access approval – requires an event coordinator to "clear" each user before joining an event.
• Automated rules like *@acme.com can also be used to reduce the effort needed by the event coordinator.
• Event specific password – a separate and unique password used for each event and precommunicated to only those who should have access.
• Referral URL checking – Each event can verify that that the current user came from one or more URLs. It is also possible to deny access based on the referral URL.
• DRM (Digital Rights Management) for encrypted media streaming and policy distribution.

ANALYTICS, TRACKING, MEASUREMENT.
DATA LOVERS, YOUR PORTAL HAS ARRIVED.

HP’s Media Portal has full data reporting for each event. And each report - including registration, attendance, surveys, web page counts, and webcast user questions - are viewable through a web interface or exported to an Excel file. Separate read-only report URLs can be given to event stakeholders who want to keep tabs on their events, too, without giving them full access to the portal. (In other words, so they can't mess up your next event.)