The 100 million member Photobucket video and image sharing service has decided to move the bulk of its operation from its current co-location provider to two modular datacenter units provided by IO datacenters at their Phoenix datacenter site. The over half-million square foot IO Data Center facility will provide their Data Center as a Sevice (DCaS) capabilities via these dedicated IO Anywhere modules.
With Photobucket users uploading over 4 million images and videos per day to the Photobucket services, and untold millions of views of the stored data daily, Photobucket’s decision to move to a modular datacenter approach certainly seems to be a validation of the utility of the modular datacenter concept. A high profile, publicly used service such as Photobucket generates an immediate hue and cry when their services aren’t immediately available, so a willingness to use IO Datacenters DCaS and datacenter modules, goes a long way to validating the concept as well as the confidence level this customer has in IO’s ability to reliably deliver services.
Jim Goss, VP of Operations at Photobucket, stated that the move to the new datacenter will give Photobucket a better quality backend and a reduced TCO, when compared to their current co-location provider.
IO has signed a number of major contracts for customers for their modular datacenter and DCaS services, but the public awareness of Photobucket raises the profile of their back-end service provider.
