Case Study: NetMotion Wireless reduces costs and increases flexibility with MySQL

NetMotion Wireless Migrates Products from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL

NetMotion Wireless, a provider of mobile VPN (Mobility) and cellular performance management (Locality) software for organizations with mobile field workers, needed a database that could handle real‑time collection and analysis at massive scale, keep customer lifecycle costs low, run well on Windows/.NET yet remain platform- and language-flexible, and require minimal DBA overhead. The product team wanted to move away from Microsoft SQL Server because licensing eroded customer ROI and SQL Server limited embedded, cross-platform use.

After evaluating alternatives, NetMotion migrated Mobility Analytics and Locality to MySQL. MySQL delivered feature parity (InnoDB transactions, partitioning, stored procedures), strong .NET/Java integration, enterprise monitoring and profiling, and easy migration using MySQL Workbench, so the move was largely a rewrite from T‑SQL to ANSI SQL. The result: lower licensing and operating costs, greater platform and language flexibility, dependable administration and reliability, and high performance and scalability (hundreds of thousands of transactions per minute and support for datasets into the hundreds of terabytes) with no tradeoffs.

NetMotion Wireless

Jonathan Wiggs

Database Architect