Ladbrokes, Online Betting Australia
Guaranteed Zero Down-Time In a High Performance and Reliable Storage System
DiGiCOR D323N-SE8-DR
DiGiCOR D1102-DE8-DR
Supermicro SuperServer 5039MC-H8TRF
Supermicro SuperServer 1029U-TR4
About Our Customer
Ladbrokes originally started out with eight staff members under the name Bookmaker.com.au
hosting online betting and have now grown to 160 staff in less than 2 years.
Recently, the company was bought out by Ladbrokes UK; a world leader in online betting,
gaming and more. Ladbrokes is now the largest online betting company in the UK,
as well as being the largest retail bookmaker in the world, with over 4,000
betting stores as well as 30,000 employees.
Ladbrokes came to DiGiCOR with an agenda to tackle downtime issue as well
as enquiring for high performance servers and storage systems.
Highlights
Key Benefits
Challenges
Downtime is not acceptable – Every bookie workload must be processed error and delay free. Hence all their essential systems are required to be fully operational and reliable 24/7. The systems need to be capable of handling and processing hundreds of thousands bets in matters of minutes.
How We Helped
At DiGiCOR, we helped by providing a unique yet sophisticated system. Utilizing the latest cutting edge Brocade switches combined with high-end server systems; each application is located over two data centres for redundancy to guarantee zero down time and 24/7 4-hours 3 years on-site service-level agreements (SLAs).
In addition, we also supply systems with large enterprise SSD arrays with PCIe flash accelerator card optimized for write latency sensitive applications delivered with unparalleled performances for fast storage systems.
DiGiCOR D323N-SE8-DR
- Form Factor:3U Rackmount System
- CPU:Single socket Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/v4, 4th/5th gen Core i3, Pentium, Celeron processors
- RAM:Up to 32GB ECC DDR3, up to 1600/1333MHz
- Networking: 2x GbE LAN
- Drive: 2x 3.5” or 4x 2.5” SATA3 HDD
- PSU: 1620W Redundant Power Supplies (Platinum Level 94%)
Recommended Configuration :
- Intel Xeon E3-1240v3 PRocessor
- Hynix 8GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz
- Intel SSD DC S3500 Series
- 1-3 years, 9-5, Next business day warranty
DiGiCOR D1102-DE8-DR
- Form Factor:1U Rackmount System
- CPU:Dual socket Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 and v3 family
- RAM:Up to 3TB ECC DDR3, up to 2400MHz
- PCIe:2x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots
- Networking: 4x GbE ports
- Drive: 10x 2.5” Hot-swap drive bays
- PSU: 750W Redundant Power supplies (Platinum Level 94%)
Recommended Configuration :
- Fully-built
- Seagate Nytro XP6302 Flash Accelerator Card
Featured Solution: SUPERMICRO-MicroCloud-Server
Supermicro SuperServer 5039MC-H8TRF
Featured Solution: SUPERMICRO-Mainstream-Server
Supermicro SuperServer 1029U-TR4
- Form Factor:1U Rackmount System
- CPU:Dual Socket Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
- RAM:Up to 3TB ECC DDR4-2933MHz in 24 DIMM slots
- PCIe:2x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots
- Drive: 10x 2.5” hot-swap drive bays; 10 SATA3, optional M.2 NMe and SATA3 ports
- PSU: 750W Redundant Power supplies (Platinum Level 93%)
Results
The solution met the client’s expectation by building a range of customised high-performance servers and storage systems across data centres via dark cable has provided customers with zero downtime while providing flexibility, scalability and future proof in all our solutions. In addition, deploying Brocade data centre switches deliver the utmost in simplicity of configuration and management combined with two Data Centres for networking which enable zero down time.
As a result, clients are also saving greatly through using DiGiCOR, while gaining Vendor independence as well as flexibility of choice. Besides, all systems used are best of breed technologies, with performances exceeding client’s expectations.