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HTTP:: Spotify Changes Servers to Reduce Energy Costs
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Spotify has recently chosen to move to SGI Rackable C1001 half-depth servers and to standardize them at its collocation data center from Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify has become very popular during the past years as a high-quality, on-demand streaming-music service and is currently using custom-made SGI 1U high rack-mount servers that had to be able to sustain all the data-delivery demands as well as the processing necessities coming from the ever-increasing user base. Choosing SGI's servers, Spotify was able to reduce its energy costs and obtain twice the density within a similar footprint, compared with the values of its previous server provider. The streaming service has acquired more than five million users since it was launched, therefore it needed a server solution that could be easily adjusted and extremely dense but also energy efficient so that the continuously growing company could capitalize on reduced space and cut-down costs. Spotify settled for SGI to extend !
all its capabilities, including streaming, storage and search, and also to gain the possibility to be scaled, since the company wants to enter the mobile phone-app market and to extend to other areas such as China and the United States. On the other hand, the new server solution also needed to be seamlessly integrated so that the users ...
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