StumbleUpon selects RagingWire data centers

SACRAMENTO, USA : RagingWire data centers, the nation's premier data center provider, announced that StumbleUpon, the easiest way to find new and interesting things from across the web, has selected RagingWire's Sacramento data center campus to increase reliability and scalability as StumbleUpon looks to expand its interests-based internet browsing platform.

RagingWire was chosen as StumbleUpon's data center provider after an extensive vetting of data center colocation companies.

"When we surveyed the data center marketplace, RagingWire was the only provider that met our selection criteria: 100 percentage availability, customer service-focused operations, and infrastructure scalability:" said Paul Hands, director of operations and infrastructure at StumbleUpon. "We needed a data center that could handle the high density power requirements of new applications and technologies that we would be building and deploying there. Our migration to RagingWire has been smooth and the customer service is industry-leading."

The StumbleUpon HBase datastore is currently running across 150 servers and contains over 12 billion rows and over 50 terabytes of data. HBase is just one of many technologies utilized in the StumbleUpon data center environment which also houses an additional 750 servers.

The datastore serves as the foundation of StumbleUpon's discovery platform, where instead of searching the web, users "stumble" to recommended content from peers, page ratings, interest mapping, and social networking.

"StumbleUpon is transforming the way people find and consume web content;" said Doug Adams, senior VP and chief revenue officer at RagingWire. "We are excited to provide the data center infrastructure and 100 percentage availability on which StumbleUpon can continue to build their business and their success." HBase is a trademark of the Apache Software Foundation.