Success Stories

HID Global is a leader in security products, including RFID and low-energy Bluetooth technology, smart cards, mobile IDs, ID personalization, identity & access management solutions, and RFID-based, IoT-connected identification technologies. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 3,000 employees and operates with offices that assist over 100 countries.

As the company’s business grows, DoubleHorn increasingly needs to help government agencies and organizations meet their scalability needs. “Many local government entities have public-facing websites that receive traffic bursts at certain peak times, and those agencies need to support that,” says Don Mackenzie, sales engineer for DoubleHorn.

Astral Images provides an automated solution to upconvert SD and HD digital video to 4K UHD formats, which were self-hosted hosted in an on-premise data center. Their application provides a much less expensive alternative for movie studios and TV network customers who traditionally sent video masters to post-production houses for manual color correction and upconversion.