Scale Eight has won its biggest customer to date--Microsoft--which is using the company's global storage system to send streams of audio out from its MSN site, the companies plan to announce Monday.
The deal is worth at least $1 million to the San Francisco company, said Patrick Rogers, Scale Eight's executive vice president of marketing and business development. And it's an important endorsement for a company trying to get started in a sector that's been punished by the collapse of Internet business models. The MSN site launched over the course of several months in 2001 and now sends out about 20,000 simultaneous streams of audio--both songs and Internet radio stations.
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