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. 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.