Case Study: GCI Communication Corp achieves carrier-grade uptime and major IT cost savings with MySQL Enterprise Edition

GCI Communication Corp slashes IT costs by 90% with MySQL

GCI Communication Corp, Alaska's largest telecommunications company, faced challenges managing a mixed database environment supporting 50 critical applications. Their goals were to reduce IT costs, ensure high availability, and mitigate the risk of data loss across their network-critical services, which included customer outage checks and loyalty programs. They sought a homogeneous, stable, and secure database solution to support rapid growth.

MySQL provided its Enterprise Edition 8.0, utilizing the InnoDB Cluster for high availability. The solution delivered carrier-grade uptime, a 90% savings in total cost of ownership compared to other vendors, and dramatically improved performance with data restoration 80 times faster and backups 49 times faster. MySQL's implementation also enhanced security with Transparent Data Encryption and improved developer productivity.

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