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How Shadow Pro helps Qwant overcome its technological challenges
Faced with growing technological needs, companies seek reliable, accessible, and cost-effective solutions. For Qwant, a French search engine, Shadow Pro has emerged as the perfect partner to overcome its computing power challenges. Discover now how this collaboration sparks innovation!
Case Studies Pro
21/01/2025
Renowned for its commitment to protecting its users' privacy, Qwant is a French search engine founded in 2013—that also boasts a platform designed for children (Qwant Junior, which filters out inappropriate content).
The company, which tries to avoid exploiting personal data for advertising purposes, presents two main areas of development: its web page display, and its search engine (a complex system that manages millions of stored URLs, enhanced by generative artificial intelligence).
It’s in the management of this search engine that Qwant's main challenges lie.
Computing power at the core of the challenge
One of Qwant's key missions is to transform its users' experience through a unique and versatile tool.
To meet this objective, the company has, for example, integrated generative AI directly into its search results—offering an intuitive summary of the most relevant answers.
However, to train these artificial intelligence models, as well as process data and index web content, the search engine faces an ever-increasing need for computing power.
The company therefore needs to look up to robust and scalable* infrastructures, capable of managing intensive workloads, to meet these requirements.
Shadow Pro emerged as the optimal solution, offering a high-end, swiftly deployable, cost-effective infrastructure.
Accessibility, flexibility, and economy with Shadow Pro
With our cloud computing and GPU as a service solution, Qwant has found a tool that is ideally suited to its requirements and offers many advantages.
Starting with high-performance resources that are immediately accessible!
The company can access Shadow’s infrastructure via OpenStack in just a few clicks. An optimum configuration for instant computing power while guaranteeing processing security and confidentiality via a secure SSH connection.
For Qwant, which frequently requires substantial GPU resources to enhance its systems, this represents a significant advantage:
“With Shadow, we can respond immediately to load spikes! Which is essential for a company like ours,” explains Ludovic Logiou, lead SRE at Qwant.
Recently, by leveraging Shadow’s infrastructure and its 1080 GPUs, Qwant was able to rapidly mobilize the necessary resources to develop a new version of its search engine. Within a week, the company managed a substantial increase in server and GPU demand, which was crucial for conducting crawling tests on millions of web documents.
Another advantage of our cloud solution is the budget optimization.
Shadow Pro’s subscription model, free of commitments, offers users access to high-end hardware resources at an attractive price.
It stands out from other players in the market because it does not have additional costs (bandwidth, IOPS, etc.). No more unpleasant surprises when you receive your invoice—only the computing resources ordered are billed!
Qwant saw this as an opportunity to easily access many GPUs while keeping its budget under control. To reduce its budget while continuing to benefit from a product that is available quickly and delivers optimum performance for its needs, the company has also opted to use older units (1080 GPUs) for internal purposes.
And finally, beyond hardware benefits, Shadow Pro also offers its clients dependable support and professional insights.
“Shadow’s hardware expertise and responsiveness have been invaluable to us. For example, they helped us quickly resolve issues with Nvidia driver errors,” adds Ludovic Logiou.
A powerful solution for ambitious technological goals
By choosing Shadow Pro, Qwant has found a reliable partner capable of meeting its technological challenges while optimizing both costs and performance.
Looking ahead, Qwant plans to continue leveraging Shadow Pro’s accessible solutions while scaling up the technical capacities of its resources—including exploring a broader range of GPUs, for example.
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* Scalability refers to a system's ability to handle increased load without sacrificing performance.
