Case Study: AVG achieves scalable, fault-tolerant database operations with Severalnines

How AVG Delivered Scalable Databases for more than 200 Million Active Users

The security software company AVG Technologies faced a significant challenge in scaling the user authentication database for its 200 million active users. Their existing MySQL setup was costly, manually intensive, and unable to support the required growth and fault-tolerance. They needed a secure, highly available, and self-healing database infrastructure that could be easily managed without causing downtime for their critical online services.

AVG implemented a Galera Cluster solution automated by Severalnines' ClusterControl tools. The deployment was completed in minutes, and the Severalnines platform provided centralized monitoring and simplified critical operational tasks like scaling, backups, and upgrades. The solution delivered a 20x increase in capacity compared to their previous system and proved so successful that AVG began leveraging the Severalnines solution in other parts of their infrastructure.

AVG

Václav Adamec

Senior Systems Engineer