Challenge: Scale to over 25,000 users with instant response times
Immediate user access and application responsiveness are vital to success in the competitive online gaming market. Sluggish system response to player input is frustrating and may even result in players abandoning the game. In September 2005, EVE Online set a new record of over 15,000 concurrent users. CCP Games monitors its systems and player forums closely at all times to ensure player satisfaction. As more players came online simultaneously, the EVE Online servers were having performance degradation problems. Players were becoming frustrated as frequently accessed game features were taking up to 20 seconds to load.

The Solution: RamSan-400 (Solid State Disk)
The RamSan-400 delivers 400,000 I/Os per second, has 3,000 MB of internal bandwidth with latency of less than 15 microseconds. "We did consider upgrading to faster disks, but the specs for the RamSan were so insane that we had to look into it", said Jörundur Matthíasson, Database Manager for CCP Games.