Case Study: NEP Achieves High-Performance, Reliable CDN Delivery with DataCore Swarm

NEP scales CDN to 650,000+ accounts with DataCore Swarm

NEP, a major worldwide provider of broadcast technology and production services for live events, faced the challenge of modernizing its content delivery network (CDN) to meet the digital demands of over 650,000 accounts. They needed a highly flexible, scalable, and hardware-independent object storage solution that could balance performance, reliability, and cost as their platform grew. They turned to vendor DataCore and its Swarm object storage platform to address this.

DataCore implemented its Swarm software-defined storage solution, which provided the hardware flexibility and scalable performance NEP required. The result was a multi-petabyte cluster of over 200 nodes that became a key component for high-quality video delivery, providing sufficient throughput to stream content directly from the archive. The solution eliminated traditional RAID for more robust data protection, reduced administrative overhead, and delivered significant cost savings through an efficient licensing model and hardware independence.

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