Media services provider dock10 has been named as Avid’s first Cloud Managed Services Partner.

Providing platform, studio and postproduction services at MediaCityUK, dock10 will use Avid Everywhere to expand its offering into the global media production market. dock10 currently provides its MediaCityUK clients including BBC Sport a managed service for remote editing via Avid MediaCentral UX – the cloud-based, web front-end to the Avid MediaCentral Platform. Clients can edit and collaborate on their projects in their own offices via dock10’s remote Avid edit applications, including Avid Media Composer Cloud, and can manage their data efficiently by accessing dock10’s Avid Interplay MAM system.

As an Avid Cloud Managed Services Partner, dock10 will now offer clients outside of MediaCityUK the ability to access the same managed services that are offered on-campus. This will be achieved by a ‘hub-and-spoke’ model whereby virtualised Avid Interplay Production systems are hosted in regional data centers. dock10 will run a pilot for this new service in London later this year, with a view to expanding further. As part of the Cloud Media Services Provider arrangement, dock10 will continue to act as a European showcase for Avid solutions and innovations.

‘From the beginning, cloud has been an integral part of the Avid Everywhere strategy to address the media industry’s most critical, challenges’ says Avid Chairman, President, and CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr. ‘So we’re pleased that a longtime Avid customer, has become Avid’s first Cloud Managed Services Partner, helping usher in the next phase of Avid Everywhere.

‘Our ongoing partnership with Avid is allowing dock10 to evolve rapidly,’ says dock10 CEO, Mark Senior. ‘By innovating together we are now able to bring new, industry-leading managed services to market that will deliver new ways of working and reduce the costs of production for our clients.’