Netflix Technology Review

Streaming Technologies

Netflix Issues	Netflix Solutions
Streaming issues occur on computers due to system requirements or browser issues.	People can go through a troubleshooting process to narrow the possible problem
Number of Apple TV’s customers had a problem watching Netflix	Apple TV’s were fixed by company

• With streaming, Netflix no longer needs customers to give the company feedback. Its computers log remembers whether someone mostly watches comedies, thrillers and dramas or whether the entire movie gets watched. It knows what customers tend to consume multiple episodes of TV comedies in a single watching session.

• Some of the streaming technologies that Netflix use are as follows:

1. PS3
2. wii
3. Xbox
4. Apple TV
5. PC
6. Mac
7. Ipad
8. Smart TV
9. Smart Phone  which is the most recent one released)

Netflix Cloud IT Infastructure

As Netflix is an internet-based company, they are outgrowing their data centres,. By doing this Netflix are looking at larger cloud-based organizations such as those offered by Microsoft,Google, and Amazon. In the year 2010, Netflix made the good transition when it moves some of its services into Amazon's cloud. Master copies of films are stored on Amazon S3.

The cloud architect at Netflix Adrian Cockcroft said:

“We couldn't build our own data centre’s fast enough to track our growth rate and global roll out, so we leveraged Amazon's ability to build and run large-scale infrastructure"

With Netflix they have over 1 petabyte of data and information stored on Amazon and their data are also sent to content delivery networks that feed the local ISPs, they are such asL

1. Akamai
2. Limelight
3. Level 3