Case Study: Sony DADC New Media Solutions achieves high availability, on-demand scalability and 40% faster database processing with Datavail (AWS migration)

Sony DADC New Media Solutions - Customer Case Study

Sony DADC New Media Solutions faced a need to modernize and protect a mission‑critical SQL Server–based supply chain application: both database nodes were co‑located in a single data center, creating disaster‑recovery risk, and the environment struggled with high I/O demands and periodic traffic spikes that required buying idle hardware. To move to the cloud and address availability, performance, and scalability, Sony DADC New Media Solutions engaged Datavail and planned a migration to AWS.

Datavail migrated the company’s 1 TB SQL Server workloads to SQL Server 2014 on Amazon EC2, implemented SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups across multiple Availability Zones, stored backups in Amazon S3, and performed planning, testing, and I/O performance tuning. As a result, Datavail delivered improved high availability and automatic failover, on‑demand elasticity and better cost control, and major performance gains — for example, an I/O‑intensive database copy/cleanse process dropped from over 24 hours to under 10 hours (a reduction of more than 40 percent).

Sony DADC New Media Solutions

Mike Gassner

Senior Vice President of Technology Solutions.