SCD supports engineers' service development by lightening server load
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As a result of introducing SCD into the blog system, the load on the origin server dropped to one third of the volume before. Access traffic to the origin server also reduced by 80%, making previously installed cache servers of NTT Resonant no longer necessary. Unlike other services in which traffic concentrates on specific content, blog services must allow many different users to access different content. Access patterns that are too varied to predict are generated in a blog service. Even in such an environment, SCD cache servers have proven effective. Mr. Satoru Okamoto, of the Media Department, emphasizes that this is very meaningful for their future business development.
Mr. Satoshi Okamoto, |
"What we need to think about is how users can communicate with each other through our services and how they can benefit from doing so in their everyday life. The system load increases as the number of users grows, but we do not want our engineers tied up in solving this problem."
There are scores of issues that engineers must deal with when creating new technologies and services. SCD frees them from the need to consider the server load issue from the beginning. This is what Mr. Okamoto regards as a key benefit of SCD.
"We do not see the blog service as a standalone service. As a company offering a search engine, SNS and many other services, NTT Resonant has, for example, Japanese language processing technologies, search technologies, and technologies to effectively extract emotional expressions. We want to use these technologies to seamlessly integrate various kinds of content."
The company is now trying to develop a technology to identify the type of the author's emotion expressed in each blog article and link together blogs, SNS sites and other kinds of content showing similar emotions. Although this would increase server load and traffic, SCD will be there to help.
SCD opens the door to the next generation of portals, where large amounts of information will be exchanged
NTT Resonant is strengthening services for mobile phone users. In Japan, there are as many people accessing the Internet from their mobile phones as there are people accessing it from their PCs. Mr. Hideaki Ozawa, of the Media Department, expects SCD to play the following role in the services they hope to provide through "goo."
Mr. Hideaki Ozawa, |
"Increases in the number of blog users and SNS users have led to storage of enormous amounts of information on the networks. However, the more information there is for use, the more difficult it is to find truly useful information. With an increased volume of information to be exchanged, we, together with users, will create information that enriches people's lives, by effectively using services like SCD. We envision a world where people can easily search through such information and live a convenient and comfortable life."
Mr. Ozawa believes that the most interesting things about the Internet have yet to come. For example, a small robot could be developed to take on the task of searching the Internet for people and tell them whatever they want to know. This robot could even work as a tutor for children who cannot go to school.
"If a robot tiny enough to be attached to a mobile phone strap would appear, we could integrate it with FOMA, wireless LAN and GPS to create a true ‘activity support tool'," Mr. Ozawa adds. As portals will become a more indispensable tool in many aspects of people's life, the volume of information exchanged there will increase a great deal. SCD, as an essential solution in a time like this, will continue to help engineers make their dreams come true.
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