Case Study: Western Digital achieves higher uptime and better manufacturing oversight with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn

Manufacturer Improves Uptime and Oversight with High-Availability Solution

Western Digital, a manufacturer of hard drives and solid-state drives, faced significant challenges with the availability and data integrity of its mission-critical manufacturing monitoring system. Any downtime or data loss would immediately halt production and result in costly scrapped drives. To ensure continuous operations and improve oversight, they partnered with Microsoft Corporation to implement a high-availability solution using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with its AlwaysOn technology.

The solution from Microsoft involved implementing a SQL Server AlwaysOn availability group, which provided automatic failover and improved data replication. This resulted in faster performance, a 30 percent reduction in daily administration time, and enhanced data integrity that prevented costly production losses. The implementation by Microsoft also provided a scalable platform to support the company's future growth.

Western Digital

Richard Chng

Senior Database Administrator