The Chicago Sun-Times, a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, USA and the flagship of the Sun-Times Media Group, now leverages Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider
Faction Cloud to manage its news platform.
Faction Cloud, which has headquarters in Denver, Colorado, USA, offers services such as private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions using both Cisco UCS and Open Compute platforms. The company operates cloud nodes both in the United States and Europe. The cloud solution it offers the Chicago Sun-Times provides a Content Management System (CMS) to improve the newspaper’s journalists’ accessibility and to address the “specific requirements for both print and digital environments”.
Chicago Sun-Times’ journalists are able to submit stories through its Content Management System, which is also used to store research and manage information. The company’s partner, MNJ Technologies, helped the newspaper transition to Faction Cloud’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud offering.
"The Chicago Sun-Times is dedicated to providing high quality content to its readers in both print and online environments; the technology platform that Faction provides allows us to keep news relevant and timely," explained Chicago Sun-Times’ Senior Director of Information Technology, Tom Masilak. “With MNJ’s help, coupled with Faction’s flexible cloud platform, we are able to move forward with the latest in technology and still enjoy significant CAPEX savings. We liked that Faction’s cloud node is located very close to us, keeping storage and compute local and reducing latency overall.”
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