The cloud Rackspace ®, which is cloud computing arm of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), formally announced that Encoding.com, the popular Internet-based video coding professional, who now use Rackspace Cloud servers to support its rapid growth of information technology and accommodation needs. With the power of servers Cloud, Encoding.com hopes to increase the average speed at which it can deliver studio quality video encoding services to its users for more than two times without incurring costs of hosting.
Launched in September 2008, Encoding.com was one of the first companies to introduce a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for video encoding. Encoding.com ’s business model is to provide a guaranteed turn-around time for coding services to a fraction of the cost of codification of the house. The company said that encodes more than three and a half million videos to date, including a recent peak of 100,000 videos in a single weekend. Using this approach in the demand for high quality video coding has stimulated the growth of the company, attracting clients such as MTV Networks said, CarDomain, and Brightcove.
“We offer a study of a class leader in the industry with encoding rates of service level agreements guaranteed. We need a cloud solution that is powerful, dynamic and stable,” said Jeff Malkin, chief operating officer, Encoding. com. “With their fanatical support, rapid response and personal attention, The Cloud Rackspace helps us focus on what we do best – video encoding.
Each server comes with clouds a specific amount of CPU power guaranteed. However, Cloud Servers customers can take advantage of the extra processing power – at no additional cost – if the host machines are below their maximum load. This unique “split CPU” server capacity of clouds can give rise to two important benefits for coding: 1) a faster service for customers, and 2) reduce IT costs, due to its ability to consume more processing power at peak hours without incurring an additional charge.
The disk and the CPU efficiency of the two main IAAS cloud computing platforms has been discussed recently by research commissioned by Rackspace and directed by Bitsource, a technology research lab. The results of the analysis Bitsource important to highlight the advantages of using server Rackspace cloud clouds.
The performance, usability and reliability of Rackspace Cloud Encoding.com assistance to meet its SLA commitments (such as never letting a video sitting in a queue for more than four minutes). With the flexibility offered by cloud server to explode, companies like Encoding.com are better able to provide an enhanced experience to their customers without increasing costs.
“We’re finding that customers are choosing not to return us alone,” said Emil Sayegh, CEO of The Cloud Rackspace. “A wide range of companies – from innovative start-ups as Encoding.com big business – are the choice of The Cloud Rackspace because of our broad, concern free approach to cloud computing customers to focus on what they do best. We take great care to assist our customers with total lodging experience that begins with our human touch known as fan support and extends to optimal system performance, uptime, and ease of use. “
