Case Study: Preview Networks achieves faster, scalable video streaming with CloudSigma

When it Comes to Video Streaming in the Cloud, it's all about Network Performance

Preview Networks is a leading European content distributor and syndicator for localized video content. As its business grew rapidly—from 15 million videos a year to 350 million—it outgrew its physical data center in Denmark and needed a cloud environment that could support high-volume video streaming without downtime. The company was also concerned about having to change its applications, operating systems, and network setup to fit a new provider, so it began evaluating cloud options including CloudSigma, Amazon, and Rackspace.

CloudSigma provided a fully open IaaS platform with transparent, customer-controlled resources for CPU, RAM, and storage, allowing Preview Networks to move its video streaming platform to the cloud without changing its preferred configurations. CloudSigma’s separate-resource, short-interval billing also helped the company avoid overprovisioning and improve price/performance. As a result, Preview Networks was able to spin up customer infrastructure in as little as one day instead of a month, improve delivery and availability for clients such as Blockbuster, Warner Brothers, and Universal Studios, and address data protection concerns with CloudSigma’s Zurich and San Jose locations.

Preview Networks

Patrick Rodies

Chief Technology Officer