Case Study: Sony achieves increased competitiveness and customer confidence with Oracle MySQL Standard Edition

Sony Boosts Competitiveness, Improves Customer Confidence, and Enhances Support

Sony Corporation, a global leader in electronics and entertainment, developed an optical-disc archive system that holds 12 discs per cartridge to manage very large video libraries. The company needed to enable broadcasting customers to rapidly search, view, and store up to 800 TB of data, improve response times to customer inquiries and error handling, and build flexibility to expand the solution into other markets such as data backup.

Sony embedded Oracle MySQL Standard Edition in the archive system to meet performance, feature, and support requirements. The MySQL-based solution reduced maintenance costs and power consumption, let users quickly view video metadata without accessing massive files, and improved customer confidence through a reputable database and direct Oracle support. It also unified R&D, sped up support resolution via the MySQL community, and enabled product expansion into areas like disaster recovery and medical imaging.

Sony

Muneyoshi Benzaki

Senior Software Engineer, Section One, Solution System Design Department