Saudi Arabia IaaS provider
RackHigh has launched a new cloud service called Saudi Cloud™. The service targets enterprise customers and features strong performance and high scalability. The company’s hardware features Intel SSD drives, Juniper rack-level switches, Cisco core routers, Supermicro chassis and dual Intel Xeon E5 series hypervisors.
RackHigh offers dedicated servers and cloud hosting services to customers in 120 countries. The company caters to a customer base of around 2,000 and operates in excess of 2,500 servers. It operates a Tier 3 data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia which utilizes Tier 1 fiber carriers for optimal data transmission and also has a data center in Los Angeles, California. Its solutions utilize KVM virtualization and distributed SSD storage. The company prides itself on excellent customer support and “aggressive pricing” - Saudi Cloud is offered at prices lower than other key cloud hosting providers including Amazon and Rackspace.
"Our core principles when designing Saudi Cloud™ were high availability, performance and scalability,” explained RackHigh’s CEO, Shafiq Ur Rehman. “These principles extend not only to our network, but also to our hardware. We are utilizing stacking features from Cisco and Juniper to provide the high level of redundancy that Saudi Cloud™ demanded. Every switch has at least 10Gbps of capacity to our core routers which is easily upgradeable to 20Gbps. 100Gbps is possible in the future. We use only Intel Xeon processors and Intel SSDs in our hypervisors which gives us fast and reliable performance."
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