Limelight

Scaling your infrastructure should be as easy as pressing 'play'.

Limelight Video Platform makes it easy for businesses to maximize the value of online media delivery. To ensure unmatched service quality, they deployed Hosted Chef™ to automate their infrastructure.

The Challenge

Limelight Video Platform, part of Internet services leader Limelight Networks, delivers flexible tools to help businesses publish, manage, analyze, and monetize high-quality video on the web. With a large number of infrastructure components required to deliver its popular media delivery service, Limelight Video Platform needed a dynamic infrastructure automation engine capable of minimizing resource management, while maximizing scalability and consistency in its service-oriented architecture (SOA).

The Solution

Limelight Video Platform deployed Opscode® Hosted Chef™ across its data center and hybrid cloud infrastructure to automate everything from configuration management to application delivery. With Hosted Chef, Limelight Video Platform can scale its resources with a one button-click, enabling real-time scalability to manage changes in user demand, while simultaneously eliminating potential human error in infrastructure configuration. By deploying Hosted Chef, Limelight Video Platform can ensure consistency throughout its service-oriented architecture, while significantly reducing overhead.

The Results

  • Deliver real-time scalability to stay ahead of user demand.
  • Eliminate potential risk of human error in resource configuration, ensuring maximum infrastructure consistency.
  • Reduce management time and costs by nearly 50% from what it would take without Chef.
"Hosted Chef has helped us establish a DevOps approach to application development and delivery, enabling significantly greater collaboration and faster, more seamless production cycles. What’s more, our success with Hosted Chef has started a wider movement within Limelight Networks as a whole, with a number of groups looking to deploy Hosted Chef to make operations more consistent and less costly." Edgardo Nazario, Group Vice President, Limelight Networks.

Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:LLNW) is a global leader in Digital Presence Management. Limelight's Orchestrate Digital Presence Platform is an integrated suite of cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, which allows organizations to optimize all aspects of their online digital presence across web, mobile, social, and large screen channels.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.