Cizion

Service Colocation, IXcloud®
SectorIT·IC

Cizion, the developer of LiveRe, a social commenting service platform used by 220,000 sites, hascut operating costs using IXcloud without any initial investment or needing to hire more dedicated personnel.

#costreduction #flexibleinfrastructure

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Introduction

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Leading New Communication Culture Through Social Commenting Platform

Cizion was the first company in Asia to develop a social commenting service platform in 2009. LiveRe is a social commenting service platform installed by media agencies and other business enterprises on their websites that connects the comment section with a social networking service (SNS) for users to log in using their SNS ID to leave comments.

Media agencies, corporations and public institutions have solved the problems of malicious comments and cyber terrorism using LiveRe, which has been installed by over 1,000 customers on 220,000 sites. In February 2016, the Chinese version was released, with the aim of nurturing LiveRe into a global communication platform by expanding beyond the borders of Korea.

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Background

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Concerns of Efficient Infrastructure and Labor Cost Reduction

Cizion, which was founded as a startup, began seeing an increase in labor costs and operating costs as a result of continuous business expansion accompanied by an increase in staff. As a result, the company began introducing cloud as a way to cut costs.

However, despite the need for expanding and operating IT infrastructure, there was a shortage of technically skilled workers who could perform the job.

What did KINX do?

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Proposed IXcloud® and Provided Basic Education on Cloud

We proposed KINX IXcloud, which does not require any initial investment, as a way to save on operating costs. However, because Cizion did not have any staff members with expertise in cloud, they faced some difficulties in using the cloud service.

Accordingly, we configured the basic structure of the cloud and paid a visit to Cizion to provide basic lessons on cloud service so that the staff would not find it difficult to use.

During this process, a demand for storage arose, and we set up a customized storage according to the storage specifications requested by the company. We also simplified the cloud management for the first-time cloud user, Cizion, by providing the cloud management in a convenient all-in-one setting option so that it could be used more conveniently.

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Effect

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Reduced Operating Costs by Cutting the Initial Investment at the Service Planning Stage

Due to the nature of the LiveRe service provided by Cizion, there were many cases in which the company performed new development work and used micro services. Such resources were all made available on the cloud to prevent further costs in planning new services. By being able to use the key IT resources for business operations on the cloud, Cizion achieved the goal of cutting the operating costs.