Case Study: Mail & Guardian achieves database automation and higher availability with Severalnines

Mail & Guardian - Customer Case Study

a news portal in South Africa known as Mail & Guardian faced challenges with costly and complex database sprawl. With their infrastructure hosted on Rackspace and a small IT team, they struggled with manual maintenance, slow recovery from failures, and ensuring high availability for their numerous websites. They sought a robust, low-cost solution to consolidate their data and automate operations, which led them to the vendor Severalnines.

Severalnines provided automation tools for MySQL Cluster, enabling the Mail & Guardian team to quickly deploy and manage a new database environment. The solution halved their required number of servers and drastically reduced the time for tasks like provisioning new nodes from hours to minutes. This resulted in higher availability, a consolidated data platform, and a more efficient operational workflow.

Mail & Guardian

Renier du Plessis

Digital Operations Manager