Case Study: Sanya Education Bureau achieves 60% annual IT cost reduction and 8x faster education services with Oracle Engineered Systems

Sanya Education Bureau Cuts 60% Annual IT Costs with Oracle Engineered Systems

Sanya Education Bureau, the municipal education authority in Sanya, Hainan, needed a private cloud to share digital resources and services across 181 public schools—supporting teachers, students, and staff during peak periods such as examinations—while simplifying application deployment, enabling school-specific portals and desktops, and cutting ongoing administration and maintenance costs.

Using pre-integrated Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata and Exalogic), Oracle WebLogic Suite, and Oracle management and security packs—deployed in three months—the bureau built a high‑availability private cloud that supports over 100,000 concurrent users, 175 portals, and 1,500 virtual desktops. The platform improved application I/O and OLTP performance by up to 8x, reduced annual admin and maintenance costs by 60%, cut maintenance workload by 80%, shrank data‑center space needs by 80+% (saving about $50,000/year in energy), and strengthened availability and data security.

Sanya Education Bureau

Wu Ping

Director-General