The Challenge Beeswax is a leading company in the Real-time Bidding (RTB) space that buys and sells advertising inventory through online auctions. The infrastructure needed to provide an RTB service must be high-performing and have latencies less than 30ms. In their early days, Beeswax began running their infrastructure on Amazon Web Services and quickly became […]

The Challenge When organizations move their workloads to public cloud providers, they quickly realize how expensive it can be.  One way that many users have tried to reduce costs are by utilizing reserved instances which is capacity sold with a big upfront cost and commitment for an overall reduced price in the end compared to […]

The Challenge Businesses running servers in the mobile ad exchange sector often face extreme loads that consist of billions of requests and process terabytes of raw data each day. When processing this much data each day, it is crucial for an organization to have a stable infrastructure that can deliver the best uptime possible. Organizations […]

The Challenge Organizations are always looking for ways to enhance their customer experience with innovative features. Companies such as Glympse provide those organizations with an innovative way to enhance their customer interactions with technology that delivers shared real-time GPS information for commerce and services. When Glympse services are used in customer-facing applications or websites, customers […]

The Challenge When organizations are running their workloads on the cloud, they will begin to realize that controlling costs is crucial as workloads and infrastructure scale. While scaling is important, it does add a few complexities such as scheduling workloads across compute resources properly and downscaling to use only the resources that you need. These […]

The Challenge Sharethrough works hard to build the most advanced native ad technology in the industry and transform legacy ad tech to meet the realities of a modern internet increasingly built around mobile devices, video consumption, and native experiences. They serve 30 billion impressions a month through the Sharethrough Exchange, where brands and programmatic buyers […]

The Challenge Traiana enables global market participants to automate cross-asset risk management and pre-trade/post-trade processing, for both listed and over the counter transactions. They solve complex problems facing both the markets and individual organizations so that firms can implement the most cost-effective solution. Traiana worked with Spot to reduce their cloud computing operational costs, which […]

The Challenge Organizations that run their software on public cloud providers enjoy the simple deployments and ease of management but costs often become a concern as a business scales. As Cybereason grew rapidly, so did their AWS bill. Cybereason wanted to focus their investment on product and people, so they created a new mandate of […]

Spotad Keen on Spot Instances, but Environments Don’t Seem Immediately Compatible Like any forward-thinking business, Spotad always kept one eye on their rising EC2 costs. Naturally, as the company went from success to success, these costs began to increase and Tal Maizels, CTO at Spotad, was determined to find a way to manage these rising […]

Samsung SDS applied Spot’s technology to its cloud management platform, GOV (Global One View) to offer its customers unprecedented savings of up to 90% off AWS EC2 costs and 84% off of Azure VM costs. This is accomplished by tapping cloud excess compute capacity, e.g spot instances, without compromising on high-availability. Providing their customers with […]