Spotify will use TelecityGroup’s New Stockholm data centre

Jul 10, 2009 13:01 GMT  ·  By

TelecityGroup has just announced that it will provide colocation services in Sweden to Spotify. The association is designed to offer a better service for the Nordic region thus sustaining Spotify's needs for a rapidly expanding user base. The Spotify service was developed and promoted as a business model set up to monetize music content. The system is simple: users download a free application and gain access to a very large music library shared using a peer-to-peer network, and they get served advertising. Spotify has grown in popularity since its release in October 2008, especially in Europe.

Niclas Sanfridsson, managing director of TelecityGroup Sweden, stated, “Spotify has created a unique business model that has proved extremely popular both due to the ease with which subscribers can access the content they want, and the new revenue streams it offers to content owners. To ensure a continued high quality of service, it is crucial for on-demand streaming services to have a highly connected, redundant infrastructure. We’re delighted Spotify has recognised our colocation expertise, and we look forward to work with one of Europe’s most exciting companies.”

The collaboration between Spotify and TelecityGroup materialized in colocation services from the former at the latter's Stockholm data centre, Sköndal. This gives Spotify a safe environment for its infrastructure and direct access to the Swedish Internet exchange Netnod, while the maintenance is provided by an experienced engendering staff.

Emil Fredriksson, operations director at Spotify explains, “We need to guarantee that our infrastructure has enough capacity to support our rapid user growth; both to ensure subscribers receive a good quality of service and also ensure we have the capacity to add new services in the future. We decided to mirror our existing London data centre in Stockholm because North Europe is a key market for us. TelecityGroup offers highly-connected and reliable data centres that will provide the best platform to support our future growth.”