RushTera is
software as a service
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, that provides accelerated upload/download, storage, sharing and management of large media files.
RushTera was first demonstrated in April 2012 at the
NAB Show
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.
The product is marketed by the New York company Attend LLC, which was founded in 2008.
In 2012, RushTera was deployed on
CloudSigma
, but has since been redeployed on private infrastructure provided by
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* 306 Unitas, a main belt asteroid
* UNITAS, a multi-lateral naval exercise in South and Central America
* Unitas Capital, a private equity firm, formerly known as CCMP Capital Asia
* ''Humani generis unitas'', a planned encyc ...
.
Attend's content ingest network, uses geographically distributed
virtual machines
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to eliminate latency and provide fast uploads and downloads of huge files.
RushTera became generally available in November 2012.
Since then RushTera has been used by
Focus Features
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during post production on several major motion pictures including
Academy Award
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winner
Dallas Buyers Club
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, as well as
Kill The Messenger,
The World's End,
Black Sea
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, and
Admission
Admission may refer to:
Arts and media
* "Admissions" (''CSI: NY''), an episode of ''CSI: NY''
* ''Admissions'' (film), a 2011 short film starring James Cromwell
* ''Admission'' (film), a 2013 comedy film
* ''Admission'', a 2019 album by Florida s ...
.
Promax/BDA used RushTera as the submissions platform for its Hot Spots Showcase in both 2013 and 2014. Company CEO Chuck Stormon was interviewed in January 2013.
Attend LLC / RushTera was selected as an alternate finalist (13th of 6,932 applicants) in 43North, the largest business idea competition in the world.
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.rushtera.com/
Cloud applications
Cloud storage
File hosting