HDCloud, developed by Diversion Media, a New York-based startup that creates and operates consumer media properties, is offering automated, high-definition video encoding in the cloud for large-scale media companies. 

Whether you need 400 kpbs Flash, 1.2 Mbps MPEG-2, or 5 Mbps h.264, HD Cloud can produce high-quality outputs. Input formats range from MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 to AVI, Real Media, and 3GP. Output formats include H.261, H.263 (Spark), H.264, MPEG-2, and 3GP.

HD Cloud also provides RESTful API for integration with other systems, including VMS providers, file transfer accelerators, CDNs, security vendors, and legacy transcoding systems.

This is another success story in the “cloud”. By leveraging public and proprietary cloud technologies, HDCloud is able to scale horizontally without limits. Remember, video processing requires lots of processing power and results must be delivered in timely manner. 

Tatum Lade, co-founder and CTO of Diversion Media, was kind enough to provide some insights on the technologies used by HDCloud:  Continue reading…

Here’s a cool animated video from Microsoft showing how their datacenters are built. I mentioned about Microsoft data centers in an old post worth reading. Enjoy!

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Microsoft Vice President of the Developer Division S. Somasegar talks in this video, published by MSDN Channel 9, about the PDC 2008 announcements and the vision that his team has in building products and solutions for developers to get the most out of their Windows 7 experience and all the new related features introduced by the next version of Windows.

Channel 9 has published a quick chat with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and talks about the complexities of designing and implementing the Azure Services Platform, his key take-aways from PDC2008 and his guiding architectural principles for Azure.

Watch this video to learn how to build a new application and deploy on the Windows Azure platform.