Case Study: Oracle achieves 4x database performance and lower costs with Oracle Exadata

Oracle - Customer Case Study

Oracle needed to support a rapidly growing global enterprise application environment that had expanded from 27 TB to 35 TB and was hitting I/O bottlenecks, while also integrating about 100 acquired companies and avoiding costly yearly hardware upgrades. Working with Oracle Exadata, Oracle used Oracle SuperCluster and Oracle Exadata storage to improve performance, scalability, and reliability for its GSI database and enterprise applications.

Oracle Exadata helped consolidate legacy servers and storage into a single-rack system, completed the migration in just three months, and delivered measurable gains including 4x faster batch performance, 7x faster block reads, 50% lower licensing costs, and more than US$250,000 in four-year savings. The solution also achieved 99.99% fail-over protection, reduced downtime to 180–200 minutes, and improved productivity across finance, HR, and customer systems.

Oracle

Larry Klein

Vice President, Product Development IT