Cloud Application Performance and Storage Cost Optimization for US-Based Leading POS Display Manufacturer
Overview
The client is a US-based manufacturer of interactive touchscreen displays, monitors, POS devices, and more. They wanted to improve cloud applications’ performance and storage cost optimization for highly in-demand SaaS-based applications. ACL Digital reviewed the client’s SaaS application architecture and identified database discrepancies to develop enhanced SaaS application performance and optimized data storage cost.
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Challenges
Costly solution for data storage
Upgrade the existing SaaS based application
Solution
- Reviewed application architecture and identified database discrepancies which resulted in very high consumption of disk space, unnecessarily increased the operational costs and degraded the application performance.
- Integrated the Azure Blob Service in the application and uploaded all content-related application supported files to Azure Blob storage
- Provided reference of the uploaded files in the local database, thus transferring the content-related dependencies to Azure
- Redirected and stored device’s uploaded files to the Blob storage
- Stored reference metadata in the local database for the user to download and analyze
Outcomes
- Improved application performance by 50% via unnecessary files clean up function and reduced database size
- Reduced overall storage cost up to 60% with Azure Blob storage that provided 24*7 content availability and minimum downtime
