Case Study: MotionElements achieves scalable, cost-efficient global media infrastructure with SoftLayer

MotionElements Selects Softlayer’s Customizable, Bare Metal Cloud for Its Video and Audio Workloads

MotionElements, a Singapore-based stock media marketplace, needed to move beyond its costly, complex co-located servers as its video and audio workloads and global user base kept growing. The company required a scalable cloud environment that could handle processor- and disk I/O-intensive files without downtime, and it chose SoftLayer’s customizable bare metal cloud and related infrastructure services.

SoftLayer implemented a flexible, global cloud setup using bare metal servers, virtual servers, global IP, and a private network, with redundancy across data centers including Singapore. As a result, MotionElements reduced upfront hardware costs, paid only for what it used, optimized resources more precisely, and gained low-latency, high-availability service worldwide. SoftLayer helped MotionElements avoid hardware maintenance so it could focus on improving its platform and growing its business.

MotionElements

Mark Sun

Co-Founder, MotionElements