Kaltura has unveiled its new Video Platform as a Service (VPaaS) offering this week, a product the company is calling the world’s first specialized cloud video service. There are plenty of cloud-based video offerings on the market right now, some, but not all, provided as a service, so it’s difficult to see why Kaltura is making this claim. We can point out companies such as Quickplay Media, Vidmind, Amazon, Viaccess-Orca, Nagra, Brightcove, Ooyala, and Net Insight, to name but a few – all providing similar, but quite different services. What Kaltura says VPaaS does is allow software as a service (SaaS) providers, integrators, and developers to add video capabilities and integrate video as a built-in data type into existing platforms…