Case Study: SEMI achieves 100% website uptime worldwide and 60% CDN cost reduction with CDNetworks

SEMI Switches CDN Providers to Achieve 100% Uptime in China and Reduce Cloud Acceleration Costs Globally

SEMI is a global industry association for the micro- and nano-electronics manufacturing supply chain that operates 26 multilingual websites and receives 4–7 million pageviews per month. Facing a 75% reduction in IT staff and the decision to move to a Drupal-based public cloud, SEMI struggled with poor cloud performance in key regions and frequent China site outages because its existing CDN had no China presence and metering was inflexible and costly. The organization needed better China compliance and global acceleration, simplified infrastructure, and lower costs.

SEMI switched to CDNetworks, the only CDN in their evaluation with a local China presence and global coverage, and consolidated hosting and acceleration under one plan. This change allowed SEMI to fold China into its Drupal environment, simplify operations, and gain pricing visibility; the outcome was 100% website uptime (including China), elimination of China outages, and a 60% reduction in CDN costs, plus improved traffic visibility and centralized management across all domains.

SEMI

Shawn Gordon

Director, Global IT Operations and Technical Services