MongoDB
When Virgin Media O2 was facing scalability issues and demand peaked during its pre-sale ticketing events, it shifted to a cloud native paradigm with a focus on managed solutions.
“I've spent a lot of my career fighting databases, and I feel like MongoDB is here to help, as opposed to getting in the way… it’s kind of revolutionary and the scalability is unmatched.”
“We are pretty tightly aligned with the MongoDB product team. That allowed us to scale up and attack use cases where we're scanning petabytes of data, and solving really hard problems for customers.”
"The true definition of partnership is taking shape – an alliance-led approach where the whole industry leans into the idea that we’re on this innovation journey together..."
Vodafone is creating hundreds of new cloud-native apps, underpinned by a multi-cloud database which is giving the telco giant resilience and the ability to innovate at speed and scale.
Stored procedures in Sybase-based applications that have become a "humungous monster" do not make that easy. One banking multinational is testing the switch to MongoDB...
"The entire system is event-driven. Everything is on the public cloud and the things that have very high availability requirements are on multiple public clouds. You’re not lifting and shifting some other person's nasty 1980s software. This is all brand new microservice-based software."