A global Fortune 100 technology company has deployed Supermicro FatTwin servers to support its social media platform that tracks events, messages, and signal reliability, without any data loss, to drive its database and its analytics software. Initially starting with just a few servers, the company has now scaled to over 100,000 hyper-con- verged server nodes over the past decade, deployed in multiple global locations. Challenges In 2010, the company started to experience hyper-growth and the number of users on its platform was growing exponentially. Millions of users each generate their own set of interactions, which turned into billions of events and messages each day. When the company’s engineers saw this growth trend, they created a platform that could reliably handle the billion

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