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Apollo Interactive Picks Percona for Managed Database Services

Percona involvement has significantly enhanced Apollo Interactive’s database infrastructure, providing a more reliable foundation for key applications and services. The transition to Percona ExpertOps has streamlined the process of updating and maintaining Apollo’s database infrastructure. Leveraging Percona’s expertise, Apollo has received valuable insights and recommendations for optimizing their system. These improvements have been swiftly implemented, empowering Apollo Interactive to deliver an even better experience to clients.
Customer

Apollo Interactive

Industry

Marketing

Company Size

Under 100

Support and Services

Percona ExpertOps

Technology

MySQL

The Problem

The management of databases on a day-to-day basis became a significant overhead issue for Mike Parrish, Apollo Interactive’s Vice President of Technology. The team’s valuable time was consumed by mundane database maintenance tasks, diverting their attention from designing innovative solutions for clients. Additionally, they faced the critical challenge of safeguarding their key database services against potential issues that could impact service availability and resiliency. Given that any downtime would directly affect both Apollo and its clients’ revenues, finding a solution that ensures business continuity was imperative.

 

The Solution

To alleviate these challenges, Apollo Interactive sought a managed service approach that would enable team members to refocus their efforts. They aimed to collaborate with a partner who not only provided support but also possessed an in-depth understanding of MySQL, Apollo Interactive’s preferred database platform. Furthermore, Apollo Interactive sought proactive recommendations for enhancing services and ensuring optimal uptime and availability.

After careful consideration, Mike Parrish and his team chose Percona ExpertOps as their trusted partner. Percona offers comprehensive, around-the-clock database management and support for Apollo’s database instances. Percona also specializes in high availability support and clustering implementation for MySQL, an ideal fit for Apollo Interactive’s requirements.

 

Key Takeaways

By partnering with Percona, Apollo Interactive has achieved the twin objectives of freeing up their team’s time for client-centric tasks and fortifying their database services against potential disruptions. The reliable support and proactive approach of Percona have helped drive the growth and success of Apollo Interactive in the dynamic digital marketing landscape.

Apollo Interactive places its trust in Percona ExpertOps for its MySQL database infrastructure and to fulfil its high availability and resiliency needs. Through collaboration with Percona, the team has witnessed remarkable improvements in performance, ensuring the dependability of critical applications. Additionally, the process of updating the infrastructure has been streamlined.

Apollo Interactive benefits from:

  • Better Performance
  • Support and services for high availability and resiliency
  • Proactive recommendations for improving performance and reducing update headaches
 

"We wanted support so that we no longer needed to be responsible for initially responding to issues that arise around our databases, and we chose Percona to fulfill this role. Percona has been great at responding to any issues that came up so that our service to customers was not affected, and the Percona team has been proactive in suggesting improvements as well. One of our biggest challenges before was performing upgrades efficiently and without problems — with Percona’s help, we now can perform upgrades more easily, and with less potential for issues."

Mike Parrish
Vice President Technology at Apollo Interactive

About Apollo Interactive

For more than 25 years, Apollo Interactive has helped some of the largest consumer brands in the world with their digital performance marketing. The company combines its own technology platform with creative design and digital advertising skills, helping its clients grow their businesses by targeting consumers who are actively engaged and looking for insurance or mortgage offers. Alongside the advertising campaigns, the team at Apollo provides the technology design, implementation, and delivery skills that their clients need for their operations, including application development, content management, and hosting management.

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