Virgin Media O2 Serves Over 30 Million Users in the Cloud with MariaDB

Virgin Media O2, one of Europe’s largest telecommunications service providers, was the first to offer free Wi-Fi to the public at locales throughout the UK and Northern Ireland (such as at Sainsburys, McDonald’s restaurants, and Manchester City games at the Etihad Stadium). Virgin Media O2 started out using MySQL on premises in 2010, but their rapid growth created challenges, which they resolved by moving to MariaDB in the cloud.

 

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