Singapore Pools brings home SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2025 for data centre modernisation

The transformative upgrade has yielded annual savings of $4.2m and estimated annual reduction of 305 tonnes of CO₂*.

Singapore’s only legal lottery, sports betting and horse wagering operator, Singapore Pools (Private) Limited clinched the Infrastructure Technology - Non-Profit Organisation category win in the prestigious SBR Technology Excellence Awards 2025 for its transformative data centre modernisation programme, reinforcing its commitment to community development, technological innovation, and its crucial role in combatting illegal gambling.

Focussed on strengthening security, resilience, and performance of its online gaming platform, which provides a legal, safe, and trusted avenue for gambling, Singapore Pools undertook this complex transition, akin to “building an airplane mid-flight,” which was executed seamlessly, ensuring service continuity and safeguarding the vital revenue streams that fund essential social programmes.

Next-gen architecture

The next-generation hardware and software architecture enables workload migration across Singapore Pools' autonomous data centres, ensuring high availability and performance even during planned maintenance or unforeseen outages. This resilient design allows any single data centre to be taken offline without impacting operations, whilst redundancy is maintained.

Moreover, this initiative establishes a tri-site, “active-active-active” ecosystem of three data centres operating simultaneously, marking a significant upgrade from the previous traditional “primary-standby-disaster recovery” model.

Sustainability at the core

Collaborating with trusted partners, the company has exceeded expectations by successfully delivering this complex project within one fiscal year and migrating to a robust, tri-site, next-generation architecture. Yeo Teck Guan, Chief Business Technology Officer at Singapore Pools explains, "This modernisation strengthens our ability to deliver reliable, secure services while advancing responsible gaming. With Fujitsu’s support, we've built a more resilient and sustainable infrastructure to better serve the public and contribute to a safer Singapore.”
Singapore Pools has also dramatically reduced its environmental footprint through a 31% reduction in rack space, minimising energy consumption and CO₂ emissions. This optimisation has contributed to significant cost savings as part of an overall $4.2m annual reduction in operating expenses which could be channelled towards community and social initiatives.

Industry-leading uptime and capacity

To ensure continuous operation, Singapore Pools' data centre uptime achieves an industry-leading 99.999%. This improvement, a jump from 99.742%, reduces potential disruption from two hours to just 26 seconds per month. With the three data centres in active-active-active architecture, the probability of total data centre failure is significantly reduced to near-zero.

SBR Technology Excellence Awards celebrates technological innovations in Singapore, highlighting exceptional companies that are riding the digital disruption wave with groundbreaking technology initiatives that have made an impact on the economy.

*CO₂ emission reduction estimates are based on the Carbon Emission Factor 2023.

The SBR Technology Excellence Awards is presented by Singapore Business Review Magazine. To view the full list of winners, click here. If you want to join the 2026 awards programme and be acclaimed for your company's outstanding contributions in pursuit of technological innovation, please contact Jane Patiag at [email protected].