Attend Selecting CloudSigma

CloudSigma AG announced that Attend LLC, provider of cloud services for media professionals, has selected CloudSigma to support its MediaCloud online media storage and collaboration environment and Content Ingest Network accelerated media file upload.

Attend selected CloudSigma because of its flexible and customizable approach to the cloud, as well as its ability to support the various performing applications required by media professionals during content creation.
 
Attend’s MediaCloud and Content Ingest Network are designed for professionals in the advertising, broadcasting and film industries that work with very large files of high-res, longer form content. Because these files can get so large – often times reaching hundreds of GBs if not TBs on a single project – the upload and download times and transcoding process can become very lengthy, delaying productivity and production. While Attend’s cloud services helps media professionals overcome these issues, they require a very robust supporting infrastructure like that of CloudSigma’s to sustain the applications needs, both for input and output, and processing.

"Until we learned about CloudSigma, we were convinced that we were going to have to build our own infrastructure to support our services," said Chuck Stormon, Attend CEO. "CloudSigma’s infrastructure was very compelling from the get-go. It’s unlike any other public IaaS. With CloudSigma, we have the flexibility to configure our service exactly how we want it to meet specific performance requirements, including customers’ individual bandwidth, processing and reliability needs. We can also expand our services with added capacity at a moment’s notice. It’s this on-demand, customizable approach that really makes the difference."

As part of its approach, CloudSigma also provides Attend with networking control, enabling the company to run its Content Ingest Network within CloudSigma’s cloud. This allows Attend customers to transfer large data volumes quickly and at low cost. By exposing such features and giving customers control over their networking capabilities, CloudSigma is a IaaS provider enabling powerful services to be run in a public cloud.

Attend is using CloudSigma’s infrastructure in Zurich, Switzerland and Las Vegas to support content acceleration. The company will also be releasing a new version of its MediaCloud software this month, which will also be powered by CloudSigma. The new version will allow the service to be released on a massive scale. The previous software version only allowed individual accounts.

"CloudSigma offers a blank canvas for businesses to create a highly-tuned infrastructure that dramatically increases efficiency and price per performance," said Patrick Baillie, CloudSigma CEO. "This approach is ideal for media professionals that require support for high-performing applications and can specify and quickly expand CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth according to needs. What’s more, with our unique billing model and ability to offer 5-minute billing cycles, media professionals really do only pay for what they use."