Case Study: Electronic Sports League achieves 60% infrastructure cost savings and high-performance, high-uptime storage with Synology Inc.'s RS3411RPxs

Electronic Sports League - Customer Case Study

Electronic Sports League (ESL), Europe’s largest gaming league with millions of users and hundreds of thousands of monthly matches, needed a more reliable and cost-effective way to store and deliver vast amounts of match and user data. Previously reliant on expensive, maintenance-heavy fiber-channel storage and rented NAS servers, ESL sought hardware that offered high uptime, strong performance, and lower operating costs; they selected Synology Inc.’s RS3411RPxs solution.

Synology Inc. implemented the RS3411RPxs NAS with enterprise features such as iSCSI support, NFS service, redundant power, up to 30 TB capacity, four Gigabit LAN ports (with >1,000 MB/sec throughput and 100,000+ IOPS with optional 10GbE) and seamless expansion. The deployment delivered high performance and maximum uptime, removed the need for additional NAS controllers, and cut infrastructure spending—reportedly saving ESL over 60% of prior costs while simplifying operations.

Electronic Sports League

Thomas Pöhler

Electronic Sports League