Case Study: Devicescape reduces Hadoop costs and boosts operational efficiency with Altiscale

Devicescape Reduces Costs and Increases Operational Effectiveness by Switching to Altiscale

Devicescape, the operator of the world's largest platform for Wi-Fi service, faced significant challenges with Hadoop job failures and high costs using Amazon EMR to process its massive daily data volumes. This unreliability hurt data accuracy and forced the company to use expensive on-demand instances, increasing operational overhead. Seeking a more reliable solution, they turned to vendor Altiscale and its Altiscale Data Cloud service.

By switching to Altiscale, Devicescape eliminated job failures and gained a predictable, high-performance Hadoop environment. The solution delivered a 60 percent reduction in costs compared to Amazon EMR and an 80 percent decrease in related staffing costs. This operational efficiency allowed Devicescape to move from a monthly to a daily billing cycle, dramatically improving customer satisfaction and easily meeting its service level agreements.

DeviceScape

Cedar Milazzo

Vice President of Engineering