DMM.com

Japan’s largest video distribution company builds a multi-petabyte streaming infrastructure

Scality RING supplies absolute stability at petabyte scale to support tens of millions of users

DMM.com, Ltd. is a Japan-based e-commerce and Internet company with a diversified group of businesses that includes online shopping and video-on-demand service.

DMM.com has earned the title of the largest video distribution business in Japan. As of May 2021, it had about 32 million registered users who rely on its services and offerings.

The challenge

The company sought a storage solution for their origin server that could manage performance with absolute stability at petabyte scale — plus, seamlessly grow with their business and catalog.

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“We mainly use Scality RING for storage for distribution of digital content, such as video. In this business, as new content is added daily, securing and adding storage capacity is one of the major tasks.“

Nobuhiko Watanabe

Manager Infrastructure Division, DMM.com Labo Co.

CDN costs

CDN costs and dedicated systems for each campaign: Many customers sporadically access the campaigns that DMM.com conducts. Therefore, predicting the system load is difficult, and they were offloading to CDN. In addition, they used to have to construct a dedicated system for each campaign.

Upgrades and migrations

Expensive, time-consuming upgrades and migrations: Such high-demand, high-volume streaming often required the infrastructure division at DMM.com to move titles to an alternative storage system to ensure a decent customer experience.

The content library

The continuous growth of their content library: This was also driving existing systems to costly limits. Upgrades were expensive and required migrations of existing data — a time-consuming exercise, to say the least.

The outcome

CDN costs eliminated and campaigns simplified: Thanks to Scality RING, offloading to CDN became unnecessary. And the dedicated system DDM.com used to have to construct for each campaign? No more. They now omit this construction.

Scalability is no longer a pain point: With an ever-growing content library of more than 300,000 titles, most of them decidedly not mainstream, DMM.com delivers results on searches for different media — lightning fast and in most any file format you could want.

Shifting core components of its content library to Scality RING gave the DMM.com team immediate relief. Scality RING is effortlessly capable of handling all requirements that DMM.com’s customers can throw at it. In fact, it’s performed so well that DMM.com has reduced the cost of its content delivery network and no longer needs alternative storage systems for high-demand, high-volume content.

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