For companies running distributed applications at scale, colocation remains an essential piece of a high-performance infrastructure. While traditional colocation is often viewed as simply a physical location with power, cooling and networking functionality, today’s colocation services offer increased flexibility and control for your environment.
Let’s take a look at some real-world examples of companies that are using colocation as a core element of their infrastructure to run a distributed app at scale.
Outbrain
Outbrain is the leading content discovery platform on the web, helping companies grow their audience and increase reader engagement through an online content recommendations engine. The company’s data centers are designed to be DR-ready, and operate in active-active mode so everything is always available when you need it.
Outbrain’s continuous deployment process involves pushing around 100 changes per day to their production environment, including code and configuration changes. This agile, controlled process demonstrates how a traditional solution like colocation can be flexible enough to support a truly distributed application at scale.
Watch how Outbrain drives content discovery and engagement.
eXelate
eXelate is the smart data and technology company that powers smarter digital marketing decisions worldwide. As a real-time data provider, they need to operate as a distributed application to handle large amounts of consumer-generated traffic and transactions on their networks around the world. Their infrastructure has to support dynamic content and data in order to provide meaningful insights for consumers and marketers.
eXelate’s colocation environment includes unique hardware that is outside the realm of normal commodities. The ability to incorporate Fusion-io and data warehousing services like Netezza, as well as make CPU changes and RAM upgrades, helps eXelate support the high number of optimizations required by their application. The company also uses bare-metal cloud to spin up additional instances through the API as needed. This combination of colocation and cloud creates a best-fit infrastructure for eXelate’s data-intensive application.
Watch how eXelate powers smarter digital marketing decisions.
Whether your organization runs a continuous deployment or requires the ability to process real-time data, colocation provides the flexibility to create a best-fit infrastructure. State-of-the art colocation facilities support a hybrid approach, allowing you to combine colocation and cloud in the manner that best meets the requirements of distributed apps at scale.
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