STORING AND STREAMING MEDIA CONTENT

摘要

Providing media content includes storing a plurality of media files on a storage tier having at least one storage cluster, each storage cluster having at least one server, replicating at least some of the media files stored on the storage tier on at least one streaming server of a streaming tier configured to stream data over a network faster than the storage tier is able to stream the data over the network; receiving a request from a client over the network for a portion of a selected media file; streaming the requested portion of the selected media file to the client from the streaming tier if the selected media file is stored on the streaming tier; and streaming the requested portion of the selected media file to the client from the storage tier if the media file is not stored on the streaming tier.