Ooyala uses Big Data to power real time video analytics for a global network of content publishers. Computing UK recently ran an article that looks at how Ooyala’s video technologies are powering new media experiences around the world.

In fact, Ooyala has been focused on big data and video analytics since the beginning:

Beginning in 2007 as a public cloud-based start-up, Ooyala expanded into private clouds and its own on-premise data centre and moved away from its relational database roots, all on the back of the then-new distributed computing tools that are now familiar names.

An early adopter of the NoSQL database Apache Cassandra and data crunching platform Hadoop, the firm’s set-up now includes hot new technologies such as Storm, Spark, Shark and Splunk.

As a result, data is one of our most powerful assets.

Peter Bakas, Director of Platform Engineering and Operations at Ooyala, sat down with Computing UK to discuss the big-data infrastructure that sets Ooyala apart. Quoting from the article:

“Data is core to everything we do. We store six years’ worth of data in our Cassandra cluster, more than any company in the world.”

“In 2011 we introduced real-time analytics that was based on leveraging Storm [Twitter’s open source real-time analytics software], with Cassandra as our store, MapReduce, and the Ruby and Scala languages. Now in 2103 we are building our next-generation analytics system based on Cassandra, Scala, Spark and Shark. We essentially have in-memory cluster computing.”

The entire article is worth a click and a read, and reveals why Ooyala is working ”at the cutting edge of big data technology.”

Read the complete story here.