Use Cases
Retail
Improving customer experience with real time data availability
CHALLENGE The UK’s largest grocery retailer required continuous availability and performance between two clusters to guarantee a positive experience for their millions of online shoppers. They required bidirectional replication with differen...
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Increasing collaboration with data synchronization
SYNIVERSE CHALLENGE Syniverse develops applications for more than 900 mobile operators, cable and internet providers, and enterprises in over 160 countries. The company's development team started spreading around the world, developing mo...
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Increasing productivity with data synchronization
PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES CHALLENGE The work done by Phoenix Technologies’ 250 developers in Asia was dependent on access to the latest changes from developers based in North America. This often involved regular checkouts exceeding 1GB from their US...
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Keeping players on top of their game
PLAYTIKA CHALLENGE A global gaming company wanted to ensure their 6 million daily players across 190 countries could continue to enjoy their games anytime and anywhere with no downtime and no disruption. With 300 terabytes of data stored in an ...
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Making cities smarter
CHALLENGE A city in the Gulf wanted to use information and communication technologies to improve municipal services and respond to residents’ needs as efficiently as possible. Through the use of mobile devices and sensors integrated with rea...
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Making energy smarter
CHALLENGE A large national energy firm with over one million smart meters installed in homes across the country found data consistency problems could take up to 2 days to resolve whilst requirements to continuously ingest smart meter sensor ...
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Making the most of existing infrastructure
CHALLENGE One of the largest life insurance companies in the US needed a solution that was best fit to handle their ingest and analytic workloads in terms of both cost-effectiveness and performance. Without a large IT staff to call on for su...
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Meeting regulatory requirements with WANdisco LiveData Platform
CHALLENGE A leading US business and consumer banking firm, with assets in excess of $200 billion tested Hadoop vendor tools and dual ingest approaches for replication, backup, and disaster recovery and found they couldn't meet either their b...
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Moving business critical operations
CHALLENGE A financial services company, with over $880 billion in assets, wanted to move its business-critical operations to a mixture of Hadoop on-premises and public cloud to scale up its operations at a marginal cost using existing r...
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Multi-region data availability solved
Polycloud data resiliency and financial services regulation compliance BUSINESS OBJECTIVE A large financial institution wanted to exploit the power and flexibility of the cloud and looking for a way to meet regulatory demands for data protectio...
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