Case Study: MovieStarPlanet achieves 9x performance density and eliminates database crashes with SanDisk Fusion ioMemory™

Star Power: Moviestarplanet Goes Supernova With Fusion Iomemory™ Solutions

MovieStarPlanet, a fast-growing social networking game, faced database timeouts, crashes and a maintenance-heavy, hard-disk-based infrastructure that couldn’t scale to support peak usage and new features. The IT team needed a compact, reliable storage solution to eliminate performance bottlenecks and reduce the operational burden of dozens of disk arrays.

By moving all database data onto Fusion ioMemory ioDrive SSDs, MovieStarPlanet eliminated timeouts and crashes and reduced its physical footprint while doubling the workload capacity on the same hardware. Results included 9x performance density, 6x faster SQL indexing, a 1.5x smaller footprint, 2x fewer support cases, 3x improved site monitoring, and maintenance tasks that no longer impact users—delivering higher quality of service with lower operational cost.

MovieStarPlanet

Daniel Helmo

Director of IT