Case Study: Black Hills Corporation achieves faster MySQL cluster deployment with Severalnines ClusterControl

Black Hills Corporation cuts Galera cluster deployment from hours to 10 minutes with Severalnines

Black Hills Corporation, a utility company serving 1.2 million customers across eight US states, faced challenges managing its large number of non-critical MySQL databases. Their database team lacked deep MySQL expertise and sought to bring these systems to a higher standard of stability with Galera Cluster technology, requiring a solution for deployment, multi-data center automatic failover, backups, and monitoring. They turned to Severalnines and its product ClusterControl to address these needs.

Severalnines' ClusterControl enabled the team to deploy a production-ready Galera cluster in minutes instead of hours, providing the required automation, monitoring, and failover capabilities. The solution was so successful that MySQL became the company's second preferred database technology, displacing Oracle. Severalnines delivered significant time savings and demonstrated clear value by reducing both the initial labor costs for manual setup and the ongoing maintenance overhead.

Black Hills Corporation