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FREMONT, Calif., and Reading, England — September 17, 2009 — SGI® (NASDAQ: SGI) today announced that Spotify, the digital on-demand streaming music service, has standardized on SGI Rackableâ„¢ C1001 half-depth servers at its Stockholm, Sweden, collocation data center. Build-to-order SGI 1U high rack-mount servers support the data delivery demands and processing requirements of Spotify’s rapidly growing user base. With SGI’s servers, Spotify has realized a reduction in energy costs and twice the density in the same footprint, compared to with its previous server provider.

Gaining more than five million users in the year since the company’s launch, Spotify required a powerful server solution that was easily scalable, extraordinarily dense and energy efficient in order to capitalize on limited space and reduce costs for the rapidly growing start-up company. Spotify chose SGI to expand its streaming, storage and search capabilities and to help it scale, as it plans to expand to the United States and China, and to enter the mobile phone application market. Spotify also needed SGI to seamlessly integrate so as to not impact users’ ability to access its popular on-demand streaming music platform.

It’s always good to read what technologies are being used for specific solutions and at the same time what benefits have been realized in doing so, an interesting read, do check it out.

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