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Comcast

New Comcast Infrastructure Saves Date Night

Media and entertainment giant Comcast and partner Pure Storage save the night with next generation infrastructure that delivers great video-on-demand service and cuts millions in operational costs.

Summary

When Comcast wanted to improve reliability of its video-on-demand service, it created a next-generation infrastructure platform using Kubernetes and Pure Storage Portworx®. Comcast can now quickly identify and address issues, reducing failure rate to less than 1%. After the early success, Comcast expanded the platform into other geographies and business areas including voice, networking, advertising, IoT, and online apps.

Industry

Media and Entertainment

GEO

NOAM

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Enable Multi-cloud

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Comcast’s Multi-year Journey with Kubernetes and Portworx

Paul Davis, Principle Engineer at Comcast, shares his insights on Comcast’s multi-year journey with Portworx.

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Challenges

With a customer base of 53 million subscribers, even a low failure rate could affect thousands of households. To address the problem, Comcast needed to modernize its video infrastructure, including persistent storage and monitoring, without adding management overhead.

Results

Business Transformation

Improves customer experience for video-on-demand services by identifying and resolving issues before they result in failure
Expands the platform to all business areas, delivering early problem detection and resolution across the company
Saves millions in operating costs

IT Transformation

Reduced failure rate below 1%
Doubled utilization in 12 months
Improved monitoring capabilities, ingesting 175TB/day, 2.5M events/sec, 4.3T documents total

“We don't mind taking risks to aggressively push our agenda forward, and Portworx has kept pace with us and embraced it. Portworx has been instrumental in our success.”

Paul Davis

Principal Engineer, Software Development & Engineering, Comcast

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Fallstudie

SmartDigital liefert bahnbrechende Innovationen mit schnellem Storage

Fallstudie

OPO Oeschger rüstet sich für die Zukunft im Einzelhandel

Fallstudie

Immer frische Lebensmittel dank Evergreen

Fallstudie

Tradition setzt auf Zukunft mit All-Flash-Arrays

Fallstudie

Daten, dank Flash-Storage pünktlich wie die Maurer

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