Case Study: Smule achieves rapid scalability and reduced data center costs with Digital Realty

Smule empowers 25 million humans to make music together every month

Smule is a fast‑growing music community platform (about 25 million monthly active users, uploading 2.5–3 TB of music daily) that needed an affordable, reliable, and highly scalable backend. Faced with high costs from a managed cloud and the requirement to rapidly add capacity for promotions and traffic spikes, Smule sought a datacenter partner with proven uptime, disaster recovery, broad network choices, and responsive remote‑hands support.

Smule moved its infrastructure into Digital Realty facilities at 365 Main in San Francisco and Ashburn, VA, leasing space while owning its hardware to cut operating expenses and retain control. The switch delivered dramatic cost reductions, lightning‑fast expansion capability, broad connectivity options and a virtual dark‑fiber link between sites for reliable high‑speed transfers, backed by favorable power costs and hands‑on support.

Smule

Parker Ranney

VP, Operations