In the bustling financial landscape of Indonesia, PT. Pegadaian stands as a historic pillar in the pawnbroker industry. Founded in the 18th century, Pegadaian has evolved to become the largest pawnbroker in Indonesia, serving over 24 million customers across 4,086 outlets. The company offers a diverse range of products, including Pawn Loans, Gold Savings, Vehicle […]

Insignia Financial Ltd is one of Australia’s leading financial services companies, specializing in wealth management. With its comprehensive suite of services, including financial advice, investment management, superannuation, and trustee services, Insignia has established itself as a trusted partner for around two million clients. Headquartered in Melbourne, the company operates across major cities in Australia, including […]

In today’s hyper-competitive landscape, organizations across industries—from Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Machinery, Semiconductors, Oil and Gas to Consumer Electronics—continue to invest heavily in high-value software assets for Engineering, R&D, and Manufacturing. However, while these assets are indispensable to innovation and operations, one major challenge persists: understanding how effectively they’re being utilized. Bridging the Utilization Gap Nibana […]

In the rapidly evolving world of mobile finance, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions is paramount. Union Mobile Financial Technology Co., Ltd. (UMF), founded in 2003 by China Mobile and China UnionPay, has become a global leader in mobile financial solutions. With its innovative technology and professional services, UMF serves over 140 financial institutions, 3,600 […]

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, security and compliance have become top priorities for businesses, particularly in the financial sector. Parkson Credit, a leading provider of credit financing solutions and payment services, understands the critical importance of safeguarding sensitive information while maintaining regulatory compliance. By leveraging the powerful MySQL Enterprise Edition, Parkson Credit has successfully addressed […]

Fintech (financial technology) companies continue to disrupt the financial services industry.  According to a report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and QED Investors, in 20241, Fintech revenues surged 21%, outpacing the 6% growth rate of incumbent financial services players. The report goes on to state that emerging disruptors are leveraging next-generation AI technologies and pioneering […]

Pepper.com, the world’s largest community deal platform, has selected Percona to manage its open source database performance.

Pepper.com’s around-the-clock community seeks and finds the best offers in fashion, electronics, traveling and much more. With 500 million page views, over 25 million users and over 65,000 user-submitted deals per month across communities in America, Europe and Asia, Pepper has quickly risen to be the largest community deal platform worldwide.

When Pepper.com’s primary MySQL database administrator left the company, Pepper decided to shift to a managed service to maintain uptime …

September 26, 2014 By Severalnines

Paytrail is a leading e-payment method provider from Finland, and is expanding globally. Established in 2007, Paytrail currently has over 4,000 business customers, works with over 350 partners and its solution is available in all SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) countries.

Paytrail offers a new online shopping solution that allows consumers to use one login for all of their online purchases. And it provides everything that is needed for online shopping in addition to traditional payment methods (bank e-payments, credit and debit card payments, invoicing and installments). 

This new case study describes how Paytrail came to work with Severalnines to achieve a fault-tolerant database cluster across two data centers.

Via SpamExperts:

SpamExperts has their own anti-spam filtering cloud which is provided as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. In addition they have an e-mail security product which they install, update and monitor on-site. Most of SpamExperts’ anti-spam technology has been developed in-house and makes extensive use of the MySQL database. All clients contribute in real-time to their filtering effectiveness, so they have many different data flows that are handled by MySQL. Replication is used to synchronize the data between the systems in a cluster and to push data feeds in real-time. The SaaS cloud is replicated across four countries for redundancy, whereas client installations spread the data retrieval …

A new case study has been published that describes how and why Mapion adopted MySQL Cluster as the real-time, mission critical database for their Mapion Mobile applications.

Mapion adopted MySQL Cluster Databse because it allows for the availability of existing applications through its ’shared-nothing’ distributed architecture with no single point of failure, to meet Mapion’s mission-critical application requirements of 99.999% availability. This is coupled with automatic data partitioning with load balancing, which allows almost unlimited database scalability for the company. Mr. Takashi Ando comments, “Some databases supported clusters when we previously reviewed our database technology, but they were hard to operate and would have increased costs substantially. We found ourselves in a completely different situation when planning the introduction of the new system. MySQL Cluster Database had made it possible to construct a highly …