Case Study: Global Financial Services Company saves $2M+ on Oracle deployments with Dell Technologies PowerFlex

Global financial services company saves more than $2M for Oracle deployments with PowerFlex

Global Financial Services Company, a leading global financial services firm in the United States, was running Oracle databases on six Oracle Exadata systems and an eight-person IT team struggled with day-to-day maintenance and performance inconsistencies. They engaged Dell Technologies to evaluate a software-defined storage approach, testing Dell’s PowerFlex rack to simplify management, increase performance predictability, and free DBAs to focus on higher-value work.

Dell Technologies ran a 90-day proof of concept and implemented a PowerFlex rack solution (with supporting NSX gateways and Data Domain/Avamar backups) for production and disaster recovery. The deployment delivered measurable impact: $1.8M reduction in hardware support expenses over three years, a 13% decrease in core Oracle licensing, $455K in annual Oracle licensing support savings, a 12% workload performance improvement, predictable performance, flexible scaling, and better utilization of IT staff.