CASE HISTORY: PERFORMING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRIBOO & LEONARDO.IT

Technical description

Our collaboration with Triboo started with a preliminary analysis phase, to identify the existing infrastructural issues and understand how to solve them. At first, Triboo though that the troubles was related only to the network but, after a combined analysis, it was found that the issues were linked also to the high number of accesses (I/O) on the infrastructure.
Criticalcase has replicated the client’s infrastructure linked to the multimedia contents of leonardo.it, by endorsing the data storage to one of its SAN based on Dell Compellent, multi-layer storage solution able to distribute data on different types of disks according to the number of I/O. This solution enabled to guarantee constant performance even when the accesses number change, together with the possibility of varying the number of machines used for the provision (both back-end and front-end) in a very dynamic way.

Besides, with the perspective to provide the client with a completely monitored service, Criticalcase proposed a solution which can be use in the modality “as a service”, engineering a delivery content solution distributed on 2 of its 6 datacenters, so as to ensure the geographic redundancy of backend machines.
Criticalcase and Triboo jointly agreed a limit for the computational loading of the machines involved to plan scalability mechanisms, providing the client with an infrastructure which is configured as a Content Delivery service, in which the only 2 indexes to take under control are the storage of the assets and the traffic monthly generated. The underlying systemistic layer is managed, monitored and maintained 24/7 directly by Criticalcase, that shared with the client reports about the functioning of the infrastructure once a month.
Now the platform produces more than 190 TB of traffic/month, provisioning more than 1.5TB of contents hosted locally on our infrastructure.