The Challenge Running Big Data workloads is common in the Account-based Marketing industry and requires a large number of computing resources. Demandbase utilizes hundreds of resource-intensive instances to process hundreds of terabytes of data. As Demandbase became more successful, their user base grew substantially and their infrastructure had to scale accordingly. At this point, costs […]

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 […]

The Challenge A Petabyte customer faced a significant challenge to swiftly reduce operational costs. One focal aspect of their optimization target was the IT expenditure, the largest cost of which was in hosting their datacenter. Their target was to reduce infrastructure costs by at least 45%. For the customer, Petabyte had run an SAP/ECC FMS […]