Case Study: Dimension Data achieves 70% OPEX reduction and 7x faster backups with Oracle SuperCluster (Oracle)

Dimension Data Cuts Operational Expenditures 70% and Backup Times 7x, Grows Business Opportunities with Secure Multi-Tenancy IT Services Platform

Dimension Data, a global IT services provider with 23,000 employees across 58+ countries, needed a secure, scalable multi-tenant data center platform to centralize services, cut costs, meet a per‑core licensing model, and support aggressive growth while protecting client data. The company sought to revamp its architecture to deliver managed application, database, and infrastructure services with strong isolation and high availability.

Using Oracle SuperCluster and complementary Oracle technologies (Oracle Database, Solaris, ZFS Storage Appliance, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and management tools), Dimension Data built a secure managed‑services platform that reduced operational expenditures by 70%, sped backups 7x (from two hours to 17 minutes), achieved 10x data compression, consolidated 20 servers onto one platform, cut rack space from 160 to 40 units and power use from 28 kW to 8 kW, and more than halved cores and licensing costs—enabling faster transactions, simplified management, and capacity for fourfold service growth.

Dimension Data

Ian Lewin

Head of Engineered Solutions