Put case study here (past clients story). neckermann.de GmbH is the 3rd largest mail order company in Germany. neckermann.de launched their e-commerce shopping site in 1995 and was one of the first companies in Germany selling products and services online.

neckermann.de originally deployed their web site on high cost symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) hardware and proprietary database software. However, as a result of the exponential growth in online shoppers, neckermann. de was running out of capacity using their existing solution. With the Christmas 2005 shopping season approaching, neckermann.de was forced to find a more cost-effective way to add performance, scalability and reliability to their site to accommodate their traffic growth.

Cox Communications is the fourth largest cable-television provider in the United States, serving approximately 6.3 million customers. Cox is noted for its high-capacity, reliable broadband delivery network as well as the company’s ability to provide superior customer services.

To maintain optimum performance and customer-service levels, Cox has developed a huge data warehousing application. At the heart of this business-critical system is a 2-billion row MySQL database.

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