Brightcove

Media is on demand. So is the cloud. Act accordingly.

Brightcove helps thousands of companies publish and distribute digital media. Hosted Chef™ ensures their customers never have to change the channel.

The Challenge

With more than 4,650 customers in 50 countries, Brightcove provides a family of products used to publish and distribute the world's professional digital media. To support Brightcove App Cloud - a complete mobile app platform for building and managing apps across iOS and Android smartphones and tablets -- Brightcove needed a sophisticated automation framework capable of delivering consistent, repeatable resource configuration with minimal management.

The Solution

Brightcove deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ across its entire Amazon EC2 cloud, automating configuration management and enabling the digital media leader to deploy infrastructure as code. Using Hosted Chef, Brightcove's DevOps team can test resource configurations within the same environmental specifications as production, ensuring service reliability, while reducing resource management from days to minutes.

The Results

  • Scale on-demand using Hosted Chef's Knife command-line plugin for Amazon EC2.
  • Ensure maximum service reliability with consistent, repeatable configuration code.
  • Reduce management time from days to minutes. '
"Hosted Chef allows us to do in minutes what used to take a day or more, it’s just that easy to work with. You write some simple code, then reuse again and again. This not only makes life a lot easier, but also makes our infrastructure error-proof, as there’s no risk of potential human error." Ashley Streb, Vice President of Technology, Brightcove

Brightcove Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services, provides a family of products used to publish and distribute the world's professional digital media. The company's products include Brightcove Video Cloud, the market-leading online video platform, and Brightcove App Cloud, a pioneering content app platform. More than 4,650 customers in over 50 countries rely on Video Cloud to build and operate media experiences across PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.