Case Study: Criteo expands Big Data capacity with Huawei FusionServer

Criteo expands capacity for Big Data services

Criteo, the French global technology company behind personalized performance advertising, needed to expand its highly data-intensive Hadoop environment as demand grew and its existing cluster became too small. The company wanted to test alternative hardware vendors for a new big data infrastructure, including Huawei and its FusionServer.

Huawei supplied FusionServer, a 2U dual-socket rack-mounted server, and Criteo benchmarked it against competing systems on performance, Linux compatibility, power usage, and driver support. Huawei came out strongest, offering the highest hard-drive density at 16 drives per server and 20% lower power consumption than its nearest rival, leading Criteo to add Huawei servers to its worldwide catalogue and deploy them across its US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific sites.

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