“The only thing Marketo has more passion for than its product, is its customers. By leveraging the Continuent Clustering platform, we have increased our ability to provide higher levels of availability and uptime, including complex database upgrades and operations in production. Upon database failure, our earlier solution resulted too often in downtime, which is in excess of 30 minutes and impacting more than 150 customers at the time. With Continuent Clustering there is no down time, just predictable degradation of the performance until misbehaving servers will be up again. With Continuent Clustering we can make changes within our operation environment while being able to provide continuous operation during the regular maintenance cycles and also during larger upgrade process, being that for our own app, database or hardware. Continuent can help us at least in two ways to lower op-ex: enables more customers on each pod (database cluster) and allows us to use replication between our current hosting provider and another, more cost-effective hosting provider to augment pods or completely switch over to save significant money. These two combined will easily save us multiple times the investment we are making in Continuent Clustering software.”