BetOnSoft Accelates SQL Server 2012 With Fusion-io

Fusion-io, Inc.
announced BetOnSoft, an online gaming software provider, is accelerating its
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database to provide better experiences for its
customers with Fusion’s ioMemory platform.

With SQL Server 2012 running on Fusion ioDrives, the BetOnSoft platform can
perform player profiling, fraud detection, and marketing analysis in real-time,
with applications taking automated actions based on the results.

"The Fusion ioDrives
allowed us to forego the data warehouse entirely, and implement real-time
analysis on our primary online transaction processing system," said
Thomas Pullen, BetOnSoft Database Administrator. "The ioDrives provide such significant performance that we were able to
consolidate our OLTP database and a reporting warehouse service, running
reports directly against our OLTP database without affecting the user experience."

BetOnSoft traffic doubled over the last year and the company
delivered the one-billionth game played on its platform. The development team
recently upgraded to SQL Server 2012 as part of the Microsoft Technology
Adoption Program, powered by Fusion ioMemory to scale with expected growth
without impacting user experience. The Fusion-io solution enabled BetOnSoft to
reduce both planned and unplanned downtime, maximize application availability,
and provide data protection using SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn HA and DR solutions.

BetOnSoft also reduced its CheckDB run-time, a database command that
verifies data integrity, from four and a half hours to 25 minutes, a more than
tenfold improvement.

Pullen noted that he now runs CheckDB each week without affecting
user experience to ensure the BenOnSoft database is corruption free. Backup run
times were also reduced by nine times, from four hours to 25 minutes. Failover
speeds also impressed the BetOnSoft team, as they set a bar of two minutes, and
the actual failover took only 14 seconds. With the ioMemory solution, BetOnSoft
also gained enough capacity and performance headroom to meet the demands of over
ten times their current workload.

"When upgrading to SQL
Server 2012, visionary professionals like the BetOnSoft team recognize how
ioMemory complements the powerful features in Microsoft’s newest version of SQL,"
said Mat Young, Fusion-io Technical Senior Director. "With ioMemory products, customers can add terabytes of persistent,
high-performance memory per server to gain top performance from tempDB, log and
index files. The cut-through architecture of ioMemory enables users to fully
exploit new features like AlwaysOn Availability, without the need to add
latency and expense through a legacy SAN architecture."