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Gamesys – Managed Services & Consultancy

Gamesys – Managed Services & Consultancy

Gamesys Case Study

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 LUW. 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 Result

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.