Case Study
Pythian Makes Critical Applications Highly Available and Reliable on the Cloud for Australian Red Cross
Pythian Makes Critical Applications Highly Available and Reliable on the Cloud for Australian Red Cross
PYTHIAN MAKES CRITICAL APPLICATIONS HIGHLY AVAILABLE AND RELIABLE ON THE CLOUD FOR AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS Australian Red Cross, a leading humanitarian aid and community services charity and an auxiliary to the Australian government, was in need of a significant data platform migration. The hardware they were using was outdated, so they needed to consolidate their applications and data from older servers onto virtual machines in the cloud. This project would provide significant cost benefits by helping to convert capital expenditure outlays (Capex) into operational expenditure (Opex), and would result in highly reliable, highly available databases for their critical applications. BUSINESS NEED Australian Red Cross needed to ensure high availability for their critical systems that p