Nico Nico Douga website minimizes energy waste

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Fusion-io has announced that Nico Nico Douga, one of the largest video-sharing websites in Japan, is using Fusion ioMemory to improve user experience while reducing its data center footprint. With Fusion ioDrives installed into its servers, Nico Nico was able to improve system performance and consolidate servers, which greatly reduced the amount of energy and space needed to provide its users the experience they expect of Japan’s top video-sharing website.

“Our user base and the content they generate is growing rapidly, so we needed to find a solution that would reduce data center sprawl while maintaining high levels of service for our community,” said Tetsuya Sato, Nico Nico Douga infrastructure manager. “With Fusion ioDrives, tasks that used to take a day were reduced to just hours. This allows us to guarantee our customers a predictably high experience when watching any content, regardless of popularity, all without the expensive and wasteful over-provisioning we used to need.”

Nico Nico Douga has over 26 million registered users and 1.5 million premium users. On its site, tens of thousands of simultaneous users can want to view videos at any given time. Supporting high performance for the most popular content used to require 15 servers, but with the Fusion ioDrives, Nico Nico Douga can support these same traffic spikes with just two to three servers at most. By reducing its overall server footprint from 4:1 while enabling four times the performance per server, it dramatically reduced its current and future floor space needs, as well as its maintenance requirements.