SaaS platform scales with Google Cloud Spanner
Technology company migrated SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner to enable linear scaling and high availability for their rapidly growing telematics platform.
SaaS company achieves 10x growth target on spanner.
Pythian migrated mission-critical databases to Google Cloud to enable linear scaling and high availability for a rapidly growing telematics platform.
The SaaS company faced significant data volume growth that overwhelmed their existing Microsoft SQL Server database. They turned to Pythian to evaluate and execute a migration to Google Cloud Spanner to ensure their infrastructure could scale. Pythian deployed the migration and real-time replication solution, unlocking virtually unlimited horizontal scaling and improved disaster recovery. This transition allowed the customer to focus on fleet optimization and driver safety instead of database management.
“We needed to scale to support over two million vehicles while meeting our growth targets.”
VP of Technology
Telematics company
Telematic software company's data growth demanded a higher performing cloud environment.
SaaS leader partners with Pythian to resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, migrating SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner.
Existing systems hindered a 10x growth target
The company’s leadership identified that their current Microsoft SQL Server backend could not handle the projected increase in data volume.
Manual scaling created significant operational overhead
The IT team required a simpler, automated way to ensure their data systems grew in lockstep with their rapidly expanding user base.
Massive data ingestion required higher performance
Processing billions of data points daily from 2 million devices demanded a distributed database with high performance and strong consistency.
Critical systems lacked multi-region resilience
The platform needed a solution that provided built-in high availability and disaster recovery to protect its global commercial vehicle network.
Migrated SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner
Pythian’s experts led the migration of mission-critical registration systems from SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner to unlock managed service benefits. We focused on ensuring the 380GB of data moved seamlessly while maintaining the high performance required for telematics analytics. This move eliminated the hardware constraints of the previous environment and enabled effortless scaling.
Migrated SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner
Pythian’s experts led the migration of mission-critical registration systems from SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner to unlock managed service benefits. We focused on ensuring the 380GB of data moved seamlessly while maintaining the high performance required for telematics analytics. This move eliminated the hardware constraints of the previous environment and enabled effortless scaling.
Migrated SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner
Pythian’s experts led the migration of mission-critical registration systems from SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner to unlock managed service benefits. We focused on ensuring the 380GB of data moved seamlessly while maintaining the high performance required for telematics analytics. This move eliminated the hardware constraints of the previous environment and enabled effortless scaling.
SaaS company achieves growth targets
Migrating SQL Server to Google Cloud Spanner enabled scalability the SaaS company needed to drive growth.
The SaaS company faced massive data growth that overwhelmed their legacy SQL Server databases. They partnered with Pythian to migrate to Google Cloud Spanner, ensuring their infrastructure could support a 10x growth target. Pythian delivered a seamless migration and real-time replication, unlocking horizontal scaling and disaster recovery. This allows the customer to focus on fleet innovation instead of database management.
2M+
Connected devices
8
Week deployment
In just eight weeks we were utilizing Google Cloud, scaling on Spanner.
VP of Technology
Telematics company
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