Today we announced that one of our customers, Shopzilla, has been selected as a Best Practices in Storage award finalist and will be honored at the upcoming SNW event. It’s very exciting to have one of our customers recognized for their outstanding work, but it’s also significant validation of the impact real-time compression is having in reducing storage costs and enhancing storage efficiency. Here’s a little more detail about their deployment.
Shopzilla is a comparison shopping engine serving approximately 19 million unique visitors per month. Shopzilla’s secret sauce is its ability to refresh more than 40 million products, six times per day while its nearest competitors can only refresh their product offerings once every 3-4 days. Its two main data centers each have thousands of servers with several hundred TB’s per location. Shopzilla HQ supports these locations with more than 400 test, development, and Q/A machines.
Facing 200% data growth, increasing costs and ever-growing power consumption, Shopzilla decided to implement Storwize real-time compression. Based upon Storwize’s highly efficient, lossless data compression algorithms to optimize online file-based storage, Shopzilla has experienced > 50% reduction in storage capacity requirements AND increased storage performance and efficiency.
The reduction in storage capacity requirements also delivered significant financial benefits including over $375,000 in savings, rapid ROI, and an internal rate of return of 700%.
To learn more about the details of Shopzilla’s deployment, check out this Wikibon write-up. For anyone looking to reduce storage costs without compromising performance, it’s a must read.
Congratulations to Shopzilla!
