Case Study: China Tobacco (Hainan Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau) cuts maintenance costs 60%, lowers TCO by over 30% and issues business reports 3x faster with Oracle SuperCluster

Hainan Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau Lowers Maintenance Costs by 60% and Total Cost of Ownership by more than 30% Issues Business Reports 3x Faster

Hainan Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (Hainan Tobacco) manages tobacco production and sales across Hainan province, overseeing multiple municipal and county bureaus and subsidiaries. Facing a fragmented IT environment with business‑critical applications running on disparate servers from three vendors, the bureau sought to consolidate systems onto a single platform to improve performance, reduce hardware and software costs, and simplify management.

Hainan Tobacco consolidated six applications onto Oracle SuperCluster and Oracle Solaris, using Oracle Solaris Containers and Oracle VM Server for SPARC to virtualize and isolate workloads. The new platform reduced data‑center racks from five to two and cut power consumption by 30%, lowered total cost of ownership by more than 30% and maintenance costs by 60%, sped business reporting threefold, reduced backup time by 70 (from hours to seconds), delivered faster peak‑period response, and enabled a one‑week deployment with high availability and improved stability.

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