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Gamesys

Gamesys are the UK’s leading online Instant Win and Bingo entertainment brand. Gamesys Group is one of the fastest growing businesses in the e-gaming sector. Voted as Bingo Operator of the year at the 2007 E Gaming Review Awards, Gamesys have built a solid reputation within the industry and with their customers.

 

The Challenge

As a result of their increasing popularity, Gamesys were experiencing vastly growing numbers of visitors to their website which put a strain on their current database. Recognizing that they needed a database that was robust, scalable, and able to provide high levels of performance, Gamesys made a strategic decision to move their 24×7 backend database from Firebird to DB2 UDB V8.2 in 2005. This posed two major challenges for Gamesys:

  1. There were no resident staff with DB2 knowledge that could migrate the Firebird database to DB2
  2. DB2 specialist knowledge was needed to support the new DB2 infrastructure 24×7 and provide continued guidance for DB2 best practices

 

The Solution

Triton worked with Gamesys on the move to DB2 by:

  • Reviewing and updating database and instance level configuration parameters
  • Designing and implementing a data placement strategy (including tablespace and bufferpool configuration)
  • Designing and implementing a logging/archiving configuration)
  • Designing and implementing a backup and recovery strategy
  • Designing and implementing a housekeeping strategy (routing database reorganisations, database statistics collection, etc)
  • Configure and test HADR replication between primary and standby production server

 

The Results

Given the 24/7 nature of their business Gamesys recognised the need for full database support. With no onsite DB2 resource, Gamesys decided to use Triton’s Remote DBA service. The full 24/7 package was chosen as the best service option. This provides Gamesys with support for their DB2 production environment around the clock, 365 days a year. In addition to proactive database support Gamesys have access to their performance and availability metrics online.

 

TESTIMONIALS
“Triton have provided Gamesys Ltd with a Remote DBA service. We initially engaged Triton when we first migrated our data to IBM's DB2 engine and have continued this relationship, whilst we have grown bigger and more knowledgeable ourselves about the DB2 product.”
Tom Hilary, CTO, Gamesys