January 19, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online DVD rental service Reeltime Rentals Inc. (reeltimetv.net) announced on Tuesday that it has completed the build-out of its primary data center located in Seattle, Washington.
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Hosted at Peer 1 Network, the new facility will be one of several data centers used to house clusters of servers that encompass ReelTime’s IRDS network, the technological backbone of its Rental-on-Demand Service. Reeltime Rentals plans to use up to four data centers located strategically throughout North America with each potentially housing hundreds of servers to provide redundant systems and maximum service coverage.
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“The opening of our Seattle Data Center is a major milestone for ReelTime as it provides a critical piece of infrastructure in preparation for our national launch,” says Alex Stanczyk, ReelTime CEO. “The infrastructure required to support the kind of concurrent sessions we hope to hit is simply massive, and this is a great step toward meeting those requirements.”
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The Bellevue, Washington-headquartered Reeltime Rentals plans on renting movies in real-time to customers across the nation. Customers will be able to select from thousands of DVD-quality full-screen movies.
