NEP1 realized that the shift by the media and entertainment industry towards digital content production and consumption demanded them to rethink their CDN strategy. The challenge was to discover a solution that met the growing needs of their 650,000+ accounts – all utilizing different consumption methods.
In addition, they needed an object storage solution that provided flexibility and scalability to meet their goals in terms of capacity, cost, throughput, growth and reliability, coupled with full hardware independence. With a combination of old and new hardware systems, it is critical for the hardware to be compatible in the same cluster.
1 NEP is a Swarm customer through Perifery’s parent company, DataCore
