xkoto (www.xkoto.com), the database virtualization company, today announced that the Gamesys Group has chosen GRIDSCALE to deliver significantly improved levels of scalability, availability and disaster recovery for its online gaming business, one of the largest in the United Kingdom.

Having handled more than £1 billion of cash bets in 2008 alone, Gamesys is one of the fastest growing businesses in the UK’s e-gaming sector. The company will use GRIDSCALE to expand the capacity of its DB2 environment, allowing it to more easily meet its rapid growth demands, including expansion into new countries across Europe. In addition, the continuous availability delivered by GRIDSCALE will assure the best experience for Gamesys’ online gaming customers. Finally, the company plans to employ GRIDSCALE as its main disaster recovery solution. Gamesys chose GRIDSCALE due to its ability to expand database capacity based on user demand and to eliminate waste associated with traditional active-passive clustering alternatives.

“We started looking at GRIDSCALE about a year ago and found that it was the only solution on the market that met our requirements for scalability and availability,” said Tom Hillary, Chief Technical Officer at Gamesys Group. “We expect GRIDSCALE will enable us to build our business in a more cost-effective way, and will allow us to deliver the highest quality experience to our online gaming customers.”

GRIDSCALE uses active/active technology to virtualize relational databases, enabling businesses to distribute application load across multiple instances of commercial databases running on clusters of low-cost hardware, mid-range systems and virtual machines. With GRIDSCALE, businesses can improve application performance and achieve continuous availability for business-critical applications. GRIDSCALE for DB2 is backed by IBM’s global technical support organization. For more information, visit http://www.xkoto.com/gridscale.

“Online gaming applications are a perfect match for the features and benefits delivered by GRIDSCALE,” said David Patrick, President and CEO of xkoto. “GRIDSCALE enables Gamesys to rapidly expand to meet the growing demand for its popular games and to deliver the level of service required to keep game playing customers coming back for more.”