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Achieving near limitless scalability and flexibility with data in the cloud

IBM

Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Web-based publishing platform SpaceCraft found that as its client base grew, it was spending an increasing amount of time managing its databases, distracting its focus from product innovation. As its user base rapidly expanded, data volumes at SpaceCraft began to rise dramatically. Along with their main focus on maintaining and further developing a great platform for web publishing, the SpaceCraft team had the added pressure of managing the increasing quantities of data while ensuring ongoing high performance for clients. Read More
About Customer	Founded in 2010, SpaceCraft is a web-based publishing platform based in Austin, Texas. Thousands of small businesses and individuals use the company’s web-based software and live support to design, manage and promote websites that work across computers, tablets, and mobile devices. As a born-on-the-web publisher, SpaceCraft followed a well-trodden path in selecting a NoSQL database to support its core services. However, as its user base rapidly expanded, data volumes at SpaceCraft began to rise dramatically. Read More
Solution	In order to free up its engineering team’s time from database management, SpaceCraft chose to adopt IBM Cloudant Dedicated Cluster—a fully managed NoSQL database-as-a-service platform built for the cloud. Cloudant goes beyond traditional data management, providing technology and expertise that enables clients to simplify and accelerate the development of scalable, flexible applications. With the Cloudant team taking care of its database cluster in the cloud, SpaceCraft can focus fully on product development and service innovation. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Web-based publishing platform SpaceCraft found that as its client base grew, it was spending an increasing amount of time managing its databases, distracting its focus from product innovation. As its user base rapidly expanded, data volumes at SpaceCraft began to rise dramatically. Along with their main focus on maintaining and further developing a great platform for web publishing, the SpaceCraft team had the added pressure of managing the increasing quantities of data while ensuring ongoing high performance for clients.

About Customer

Founded in 2010, SpaceCraft is a web-based publishing platform based in Austin, Texas. Thousands of small businesses and individuals use the company’s web-based software and live support to design, manage and promote websites that work across computers, tablets, and mobile devices. As a born-on-the-web publisher, SpaceCraft followed a well-trodden path in selecting a NoSQL database to support its core services. However, as its user base rapidly expanded, data volumes at SpaceCraft began to rise dramatically.

Solution

In order to free up its engineering team’s time from database management, SpaceCraft chose to adopt IBM Cloudant Dedicated Cluster—a fully managed NoSQL database-as-a-service platform built for the cloud. Cloudant goes beyond traditional data management, providing technology and expertise that enables clients to simplify and accelerate the development of scalable, flexible applications. With the Cloudant team taking care of its database cluster in the cloud, SpaceCraft can focus fully on product development and service innovation.

Impact #1	SpaceCraft can focus fully on product development and service innovation.
Impact #2	Cloudant offers very high availability and consistent performance, which helps maximize the uptime and responsiveness of SpaceCraft’s clients’ websites.
Impact #3	Cloudant’s Apache Lucene functionality enabled SpaceCraft to get to market faster with an integrated search solution for their clients.

Impact #1

SpaceCraft can focus fully on product development and service innovation.

Impact #2

Cloudant offers very high availability and consistent performance, which helps maximize the uptime and responsiveness of SpaceCraft’s clients’ websites.

Impact #3

Cloudant’s Apache Lucene functionality enabled SpaceCraft to get to market faster with an integrated search solution for their clients.

Benefit #1	Scheduled three weeks to develop a new feature, but with Cloudant it took only three days.

Benefit #1

Scheduled three weeks to develop a new feature, but with Cloudant it took only three days.

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Achieving near limitless scalability and flexibility with data in the cloud

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