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Signagelive migrates to Rackspace Cloud

February 28, 2012

Cloud-powered digital signage solutions firm signagelive today announced it has moved its media-delivery infrastructure to the Rackspace Cloud.

"After a six-month global vetting process, we are thrilled with our move to a hosted managed solution provided by Rackspace," said signagelive CEO Jason Cremins in the announcement. "Digital signage has long been held back by high IT infrastructure costs and closed, proprietary systems. Moving to a truly cloud-powered system is a first for our industry, and this has the potential to truly unlock volume markets and new value chains for us. You cannot scale with software installed on a desktop computer in your closet, but you can with a system that boasts over 70,000 servers across eight data centers."

By utilizing Rackspace's integration of its CloudFiles product with Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN), signagelive is able to deliver static files much faster and more efficiently to its users and media endpoints, the announcement said. The CDN caches content in a global multi-tier system to ensure that static files are delivered from the closest node to the end user or media endpoint, thus ensuring an improvement in the speed of media delivery and user interface experience.

In line with its move to Rackspace, signagelive created a custom performance monitoring application utilizing cloud servers and cloud load balancer APIs, enabling it to scale up or down on demand when required. In times of peak (or unexpected) load, signagelive automatically increases the number of servers available to network customers, ensuring that the user experience remains a constant and is not degraded by any large spikes in traffic.

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