Fortune 100 Technology Company UsesSupermicro Servers to Handle Trillions ofEvents and Messages, without any Data Loss
Modular design of Supermicro’s FatTwin Servers allows
company to rapidly scale to support growing business needs

INDUSTRY
Technology company thatdevelops and manufactures
computer software, hardware,and services.
CHALLENGES• Support the company’s
billions of events andmessages• Ensure that the solution
would not have any lossof data
• Utilize a modular design,
allowing the company tosupport multiple use caseswith the same basic chassis

A global Fortune 100 technology company has deployed Supermicro FatTwin servers
to support its social media platform that tracks events, messages, and signal reliability,
without any data loss, to drive its database and its analytics software. Initially startingwith just a few servers, the company has now scaled to over 100,000 hyper-converged server nodes over the past decade, deployed in multiple global locations.
Challenges
In 2010, the company started to experience hyper-growth and the number of users on its platform
was growing exponentially. Millions of users each generate their own set of interactions, which
turned into billions of events and messages each day. When the company’s engineers saw thisgrowth trend, they created a platform that could reliably handle the billions—and over time trillions—of events and messages.
In order to run this platform, the engineers needed to find a hardware solution that solved two important guidelines. First, the solution had to ensure there would not be any loss of data. Second, thesolution had to be modular, with each node having a highly flexible disk drive architecture, allowing
the company to support a large number of use cases with the same basic chassis.

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SOLUTION
Supermicro’s FatTwin Servers

BENEFITS• Compact and modular
design leverages a shared
redundant power chassis• Server nodes have theirown individual set of up to10 disk drives, which are
RAID-capable• Each node is easily
replaceable andhot-swappable

The company’s engineers calculated they would need thousands of these servers. Because of theextremely large quantity of servers, they wanted the compute nodes to be compact so that all of theirservers could fit in their data center rooms.

Solution
After evaluating several hardware solutions, the company found that Supermicro’s FatTwin servers
were the best option to satisfy their requirements. FatTwin servers are designed to be compact andmodular by leveraging a shared redundant power chassis. And each server node has its own individual set of up to 10 disk drives, which are RAID-capable.

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Each node is easily replaceable and hot-swappable—when a node fails or its disk drives fail, thenode could easily be replaced by another one.
These unique features allow the engineers to setup a prototype system in a single rack. They tested
their software platform, generating data traffic to and from the FatTwin nodes. When the engineers
demonstrated their system, everyone cheered, as they saw their overall system improved for theentire social media site.
Over the course of the last decade, the company has scaled its software system to over 100,000
Supermicro FatTwin server nodes. Initially, they were running in a single data center, then to data
centers all over the world, with failover between locations.
The modularity, compactness, and replaceability of the FatTwin made the operations of this softwaresystem easy to maintain and easy to deploy to new locations. The company continues to deploy
FatTwin for this software platform and other applications.

Benefits
The company has been impressed with the scalability, robustness, and reliability of the Supermicro
FatTwin platform. With unprecedented growth over the past six years, the company continues to add
more nodes across all global data centers to keep up with business demands.

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