[February 15, 2011]

Unicon and Kaltura Demonstrate Open Source Full-Video Solution Designed to Meet Online Campus and Classroom Needs

Unicon, Inc., a leading IT consulting services provider, specializing in open source for the education market, has announced that it will host an interactive webinar, "Kaltura Online Video Solutions for the Campus and Classroom in Higher Education," featuring special guest Leah Belsky, Vice President of Strategic Development for Kaltura. Kaltura is the creator of the leading open source online video platform for education. Education professionals predict their use of online video to grow significantly over the next five years, as they transfer offline video libraries to online repositories. The need for comprehensive and simple tools to incorporate video into online learning environments increases as the online video trend in education popularizes. This webinar will discuss how online video impacts the needs of education professionals, and how the Kaltura Video Platform meets the rich-media needs of faculty, staff, and students.

Join Unicon on February 22 to experience live demos of the Kaltura Cross-Campus Media Suite (a full-video solution), including the Kaltura MediaSpace™ application (an internal campus "YouTube (News - Alert)"). Attendees will also discover how the Kaltura Video Tool integrates with the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment, in an exclusive demo from Aaron Zeckoski, Software Engineer at Unicon. Designed in partnership with major universities, the Kaltura Video Tool for Sakai provides users with a full-video solution that, once installed, is completely integrated into the Sakai system and existing work flows. The solution provides users the ability to upload, catalog, edit, share, and publish video and related content.

Join us at 2:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. PST) on Tuesday, February 22, to discover ho the Kaltura Video Platform can add rich-media capabilities to any institution's online campus.

For more information or to register for this webinar, click here.

About Kaltura

Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source (News - Alert) Online Video Platform. Over 100,000 media & entertainment companies, enterprises, SMBs, educational institutions, service providers, platform vendors, and system integrators use Kaltura's flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities. Kaltura's features and products enable easy deployment of custom work-flows involving video creation, ingestion, publishing, management, syndication, engagement, monetization and analysis. The free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available for download at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Founded in 2006, New York based Kaltura is a founding member of the 'Open Video Alliance' (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video. For more information: www.kaltura.com, www.kaltura.org and http://exchange.kaltura.com/.

About Unicon

Unicon, Inc. is a leading provider of IT consulting services for the education market. Unicon works closely with colleges, universities, and corporations to find the best solutions to meet their business challenges. Unicon specializes in using open source technologies to deliver flexible and cost-effective systems in the areas of enterprise portals, learning management systems, identity and access management, online video, calendaring, email, and collaboration. Unicon is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate; an InCommon Affiliate; an Industry Member of Internet2; a Jasig and VMware Partner; an authorized Solution Provider for CAS, uPortal, and VMware; a services partner and reseller of Kaltura, Liferay, VASCO, and Zimbra (News - Alert); and a Contributing Member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium. For more information, visit: www.unicon.net.

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