Case Study: Cision Gorkana achieves 65% faster Oracle Database performance and 3.5x reduction in IT operational costs with HPE Nimble Storage

Gorkana Group Migrates Mission-Critical Oracle Database to Nimble Storage

Gorkana Group, a London-based media intelligence provider serving 35,000 communications professionals, was facing rapid growth (~10% YoY) and mounting performance problems with its mission-critical Oracle 11g database on a legacy NetApp MetroCluster. The aging environment was costly, difficult to maintain, lacked effective tiering and scalability, and threatened the company’s ability to meet increasing capacity and performance demands.

After a three-month POC (validated by independent tester Xynomix), Gorkana migrated its Oracle environment to Nimble Storage arrays (CS440/CS240/CS210) with Nimble InfoSight and Oracle ASM, completing a rapid, zero‑error migration. The deployment delivered a 60–65% improvement in database performance (queries that used to take hours now run in minutes or seconds), a 3.5x reduction in IT operational costs, simplified storage management, enabled tiering and scalability, and bought an 18‑month postponement of a costly Oracle upgrade.

Cision Gorkana

Mark Just

Head of IT Operations