Case Study: Hydradyne achieves an end to price scraping and right-sized servers with DataDome

Hydradyne ends price scraping and maintains its competitive edge with DataDome

Hydradyne, one of North America’s largest motion‑control distributors with roughly 900,000 product references, was suffering heavy automated scraping of product, price and availability data. Their IP‑based rate limiting on load balancers offered little visibility and failed to stop scrapers—so Hydradyne evaluated bot‑management vendors and chose DataDome’s anti‑scraping solution to protect its proprietary catalog as it migrated to Microsoft Azure.

DataDome’s solution was fast to deploy (trial and install in about 30 minutes), gave detailed dashboards and active blocking with automatic whitelisting, and stopped unwanted bots from harvesting data. The result: DataDome eliminated roughly 40–60% of Hydradyne’s total traffic, ended automated scraping of prices and specs, and enabled Hydradyne to right‑size infrastructure—reducing servers from two to one—while delivering clear ROI and strong vendor support.

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Felipe Maurer

Senior Web Developer