Debunking the Free Open Source Myth: How Signal Replaced Open Source Cassandra with Aerospike® for Superior TCO and Operations
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Aerospike Hybrid-Memory Architecture™
- Aerospike Cross-Datacenter Replication (XDR)
- AWS M4.2xlarge nodes
技术栈
- NoSQL Database
- SSD Storage
- DRAM
- AWS i3.8xlarge instances
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Innovation Output
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 分析与建模 - 预测分析
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云存储服务
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
适用行业
- Professional Service
- Software
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 产品研发
用例
- 实时定位系统 (RTLS)
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Signal is a leading SaaS provider of data onboarding and real-time identity resolution. Their technology platform empowers people-based marketers to enhance customer experiences by providing relevance across all channels, regardless of place or time. Signal's Customer Identity Platform (CIP) is designed to continuously identify and update customer activity both online and offline, maintain customer profiles with full brand interactions and history, and activate marketing through connections to various platforms. The company faced significant challenges with their existing data store, Cassandra, which was becoming increasingly expensive, unreliable, and nonperforming, affecting their business processes and SLAs.
挑战
Signal, an identity resolution platform, faced significant challenges with their existing data store, Cassandra. The platform was becoming increasingly expensive, unreliable, and nonperforming, leading to large and unpredictable latency responses and uptime issues. These problems were affecting every element of their business processes, resulting in more frequent and severe incidents. The Cassandra clusters were difficult to maintain and required high-touch operations, diverting resources from higher-value projects. Signal's Customer Identity Platform (CIP) had grown to over 550 servers, leading to server sprawl and unpredictable performance, negatively impacting the company's SLAs. The projected 25% data growth further complicated the situation, prompting the search for a new solution.
解决方案
Signal decided to replace their existing Cassandra data store with Aerospike. Aerospike offered a low total cost of ownership, high performance at scale, and ease of scaling. During the presales process, Aerospike's engineering team demonstrated a deep understanding of Signal's problems, giving them confidence in the solution. Aerospike's Hybrid-Memory Architecture™ (HMA) allowed for high performance with only indexes in memory while persisting data on SSD, requiring a much lower server footprint than Cassandra. This resulted in significant cost savings and improved performance. Aerospike's Cross-Datacenter Replication (XDR) feature enabled real-time cross-datacenter replication across regions, further enhancing performance and reliability. Signal saw immediate improvements, including a 68% reduction in TCO, 100x performance improvement, and increased data reliability. The switch to Aerospike allowed Signal to focus on strategic initiatives and accelerate key business processes.
运营影响
数量效益
Case Study missing?
Start adding your own!
Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.
相关案例.
Case Study
Factor-y S.r.l. – Establishes a cost-effective, security-rich development environment with SoftLayer technology
Factor-y S.r.l., a web portal developer, was faced with the challenge of migrating its development infrastructure to a reliable cloud services provider with highly responsive technical support. The company needed a solution that would not only provide a secure and reliable environment but also support its expansion by providing resources to create and deliver innovative offerings.
Case Study
UBM plc: Taking the pulse of the business and engaging employees with a far-reaching strategic transformation
UBM, a leading global events business, was undergoing a significant strategic transformation named 'Events First'. As part of this transformation, the company was preparing to complete the largest acquisition in its history - Advanstar, a US-based events and marketing services business valued at more than USD970m. The company faced the risk of human capital flight if it was unable to effectively engage top talent with the new strategic direction. UBM needed to make significant structural, process and systems changes, uniting its previously autonomous regional businesses. The challenge was to ensure all of its employees were engaged and aligned with the new future vision.
Case Study
Darwin Ecosystem: Accelerating discovery and insight through cutting-edge big data and cognitive technologies
Darwin Ecosystem was founded with a unique vision of harnessing chaos theory mathematics to uncover previously hidden connections in unstructured data. The company’s algorithms can look at all the data generated by any source (such as news, RSS feeds and Twitter), and analyze how a specific set of concepts within that data are evolving over time. This is particularly valuable in situations such as business and competitive intelligence, social research, brand monitoring, legal discovery, risk mitigation and even law enforcement. A common problem in these areas is that a regular web search will only turn up the all-time most popular answers to a given question – but what the expert researcher is actually interested in is the moment-tomoment evolution of the data available on that topic. Darwin’s algorithm is computationally intensive, and the sources of data it correlates can be vast. To bring its benefits to a larger commercial audience, Darwin needed to find a way to make it scale.
Case Study
Wittmann EDV-Systeme launches IT monitoring services
Small and medium-sized businesses often lack the know-how and resources required for thorough IT system monitoring. Wittmann EDV-Systeme wanted to launch a solution to plug the gap – enabling it to improve its own competitiveness and that of its customers. IT landscapes are becoming ever more complex and outsourcing is gaining popularity, IT systems must nonetheless remain easy-to-use and extremely reliable at all times. Automated, round-the-clock system monitoring therefore represents an immensely valuable proposition for companies: downtime for business-critical applications can be avoided, and IT systems remain available at all times.
Case Study
Zend accelerates, simplifies PHP development
Zend Technologies, a major contributor to the PHP open source community, needed to keep pace with emerging trends such as mobility, agile development, application lifecycle management and continuous delivery. The company needed to provide the right tools to the worldwide community of PHP developers. The challenge was to support enterprise-class capabilities from end to end, including mobile, compliance and security. The pace of business required developers to show results fast across a variety of devices without compromising quality or security.
Case Study
Delivering modern data protection with cloud scale backup from Cobalt Iron and IBM
Organizations are struggling to modernize their legacy data protection environments in the face of growing demands around new infrastructure, new applications, and budget consolidation. Virtualization and modern application development processes have significantly outgrown legacy backup architectures. In response, infrastructure teams have created multiple backup solution types to handle the varying SLAs (performance, scale, cost) required by their business sponsors. However, the sheer number and variety of solutions in this uncontrolled expansion creates huge amounts of work, threatening to overwhelm the IT team in many organizations. Today, developers may add new applications and virtual server instances by the hundreds per day without accounting for the restrictions of the existing backup infrastructure. They leverage the cloud for immediate compute and storage resources, yet rarely communicate succinctly with corporate IT to ensure that the appropriate data protection services are in place.
