Partnership Between Wasabi and G-Core Labs

Wasabi Technologies, Inc. partners with G-Core Labs SA, an international provider of cloud and edge solutions for content delivery, hosting and security.

Wasabi customers can leverage company’s cloud storage with G-Core Labs content delivery network (CDN), whilst G-Core Labs expands the geography of its cloud storage in Europe, North America and Asia by offering Wasabi

As part of this new partnership G-Core Labs will sell Wasabi powered storage as an option to their customers providing a single bill containing CDN and Wasabi cloud storage services.

The integrated solution particularly benefits customers with applications that require large file sizes to be transported and stored with performance such a media storage, gaming, e-commerce and online services. The partnership will reduce costs for customers, while increasing their speed of operations and making it easier for them to scale internationally. It will also provide fault-tolerant data warehousing and content delivery network functionality with Wasabi’s 11x9s data durability and G-Core Labs CDN average response time of less than 30ms.

Dmitry Samoshkin, VP of products, G-Core Labs commented: “By simultaneously providing high-quality cloud storage and accelerating the loading and delivery of multimedia content and business information, G-Core Labs and Wasabi are together offering ground-breaking, integrated solutions. Whether you are a fast-growing online multimedia service provider, a game developer, bank or medical company, your business requires a high-performance content delivery network that makes it easy to scale. This is what this partnership is offering – at market-leading prices.“

“Through this partnership, customers can take advantage of G-Core Labs’ market leading content delivery network services in combination with Wasabi’s hot cloud storage offering” stated David Friend, CEO, Wasabi. “The G-Core Labs CDN is easily accessible for Wasabi customers in Europe, Russia and Asia as it has been integrated through our S3 API. Together, we are enabling customers to get ahead of the competition by cutting storage costs and ensuring faster, more reliable data delivery.“

Wasabi delivers a storage hub for hybrid and multi-cloud media workflows. This is built on a file system and architecture, with data centres across the US and in Europe.

Wasabi writes and reads data faster than competing cloud storage services and the company has transformed the cloud storage market by offering a single tier of performing storage with no charges for data egress or API requests.

G-Core Labs is an international cloud and edge content delivery, hosting and security solutions provider for any business, headquartered in Luxembourg, whose global infrastructure is included in the Guinness Book of Records.

It provides a range of services for customers of all industries that develop their business online. The company’s services include managed hosting, content delivery network (CDN), advanced media platform for professional broadcasts and streaming of any complexity, protection vs. DDoS attacks of any level, cloud content storage etc. It built its own global infrastructure on all continents (over 100 nodes in tier-3 data centers) with the best CDN performance in Europe, Russia and the CIS.

Its clients are international and regional brands in the field of telecommunications, finance, media, video games developers and publishers.

On CDN
G-Core Labs created its own global CDN on 5 continents to solve the problem of instantly transmitting the heaviest type of content – high-quality online games, with peak loads on the system. The infrastructure created was tested by millions of users playing at the same time and became the owner of the Guinness record.

The firm provides instantaneous transfer of content, speeding up customers’ websites and online stores and offering security. Its network is ready for any peak traffic, as the total network bandwidth exceeds 7Tb/s. It has about 4,000 peering partners, in addition to agreements with major operators and an ISP license.

CDN by G-Core Labs has the best performance in Europe, Russia and the CIS according to Citrix.com, an independent monitoring and optimising CDN performance, in the following parameters:

The best throughput (the amount of data that a site transmits in fixed time)
The best response time (actual request processing time, plus the delay in transmitting information over the network and messages delay in the queue)
The best time of files downloading.

Furthermore, CDN by G-Core Labs allows for: