RTL Group Prefers Scality Ring for VoD

 RTL Interactive GmbH, a subsidiary of RTL Group SA (a division of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA), has deployed Scality’s software-defined enterprise storage solution for its video-on-demand (VoD) offering.

RTL Interactive, is a provider of VoD to the German market, providing 1.2 billion video views annually. Its growing subscriber base, coupled with the growth of new forms of media consumption using RTL’s NOW application for iPhone and Android, led to massive growth of its storage requirements. To ensure continued customer satisfaction, RTL Interactive needed to scale beyond traditional storage solutions. It required a solution that combined performance regardless of scale, data resilience, ease of integration with existing applications and cost efficiency. It required a system capable of managing tens of thousands of media titles and providing hundreds of thousands of simultaneous VoD sessions.

After in-depth on-site testing of products from Scality, Inc., and EMC Isilon, and SAN offerings from HP and Dell, Inc., RTL Interactive chose Scality’s RING as the solution best capable of satisfying its stringent scalability, performance and reliability requirements.

“Because of the importance of VoD for Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and the growing user audience for Mediengruppe RTL’s VoD services, we needed high read performance and a very scalable storage backend that we could depend on to meet our very high SLA,” said André Knegt, head of infrastructure, RTL Interactive. “Scality’s Ring offers us the scalability, reliability and performance that we need, as well as the ability to easily integrate storage into our existing infrastructure. It also gives us the ability to just add disks and servers to grow capacity easily. This really impressed us. With Scality RING we believe that we will be able to deploy more storage capacity, in a shorter time frame. It allows us to introduce new products and features to the market sooner, all with exceptional cost efficiency.“

“In a highly competitive market for consumer-facing video services, providers must innovate to offer a best of class customer experience,” said Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality. “We are very pleased that RTL chose Scality as a key partner in delivering RTL’s market-leading VoD service.“