NHN Corporation: Refreshing Data Center for Performance
Introduction
NHN Corporation is a major player in South Korea‘s Internet space and runs several successful sites that include a search portal, an online gaming portal, a children‘s portal, and an online donation portal. Keeping its leading edge in the online environment while maintaining a profitable business requires NHN to constantly keep tabs on the technologies that help drive its business.
Responding to a growing need
Operating a leading-edge portal requires a good sense of the business and the technologies that power the services. For NHN, this means operating as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, especially when demand for NHN‘s portal services was growing fast. “We have to respond to our fast-growing Internet services need with a very limited budget,” says Chan Song, chief performance architect at NHN. “To do that, we believe superb performance improvement can minimize the direct capital investment while meeting the needs of exponential server growth.”
NHN‘s Naver online search portal was already topping one billion page views a day and its game portal, Hangame, was expanding with one million concurrent users worldwide. These numbers were taking a toll on NHN‘s servers, and the company realized that it needed to embark on a “spend smart” strategy and invest wisely into new technology. Investing now would help the company avoid increased costs in software support and hardware-related issues later. It would enable the company to stay competitive and maintain its leading market segment position by increasing data center performance and productivity.
Technologically, NHN faced two major challenges. As Chan Song explains, “We are in the Internet portal business. Above all else, two factors are critical for most of our service platforms; increase Web page views per second (PV/s) and reduce response time (in milliseconds, ms).
Read the full NHN Corporation Data Center Refresh Case Study.
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NHN Corporation: Refreshing Data Center for Performance
Introduction
NHN Corporation is a major player in South Korea‘s Internet space and runs several successful sites that include a search portal, an online gaming portal, a children‘s portal, and an online donation portal. Keeping its leading edge in the online environment while maintaining a profitable business requires NHN to constantly keep tabs on the technologies that help drive its business.
Responding to a growing need
Operating a leading-edge portal requires a good sense of the business and the technologies that power the services. For NHN, this means operating as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, especially when demand for NHN‘s portal services was growing fast. “We have to respond to our fast-growing Internet services need with a very limited budget,” says Chan Song, chief performance architect at NHN. “To do that, we believe superb performance improvement can minimize the direct capital investment while meeting the needs of exponential server growth.”
NHN‘s Naver online search portal was already topping one billion page views a day and its game portal, Hangame, was expanding with one million concurrent users worldwide. These numbers were taking a toll on NHN‘s servers, and the company realized that it needed to embark on a “spend smart” strategy and invest wisely into new technology. Investing now would help the company avoid increased costs in software support and hardware-related issues later. It would enable the company to stay competitive and maintain its leading market segment position by increasing data center performance and productivity.
Technologically, NHN faced two major challenges. As Chan Song explains, “We are in the Internet portal business. Above all else, two factors are critical for most of our service platforms; increase Web page views per second (PV/s) and reduce response time (in milliseconds, ms).
Read the full NHN Corporation Data Center Refresh Case Study.
