Fusion-io Accelerates Databases From Spotify

Fusion-io, Inc. announced that it is
accelerating the music databases of online music provider Spotify.

The global digital music service has adopted the Fusion ioMemory platform in
its datacenters to rapidly deliver music from its Apache Cassandra database to
listeners worldwide.

"Today’s listeners expect to be able
to access music instantaneously on any device, and Spotify’s powerful database
is essential to quickly serving up tracks while promoting new music discovery,"
said Gary Orenstein, Fusion-io SVP of products. "The Spotify database team will continue to deliver on high customer
expectations for millions of users worldwide with Fusion ioMemory, which is
uniquely designed as a platform for application acceleration."

Integrated into datacenter servers, the ioMemory platform is built to
accelerate organizations’ most important applications, such as the open source
Apache Cassandra database that powers the Spotify music platform. Hyperscale
leaders like Spotify use ioScale in servers to maintain the speed of
success in the business of today’s increasingly global online pop culture.
Unlike SSDs, ioMemory platforms like ioScale are architected to manage
flash like memory, providing low latency performance for databases even
in the largest of hyperscale datacenters.

"Spotify users expect fast results
across all of their devices. Fusion ioMemory gives us the speed and scalability
we need to grow our footprint worldwide with new services and scale our user
base by the millions," said Patrik Torstensson, architect, Spotify.

Spotify and Fusion-io are presenting on accelerating for Apache Cassandra at
the Apache Cassandra Summit June 11-12, 2013 in San Francisco, CA.