Case Study: Spansion achieves zero-downtime Oracle 11g migration and six-figure savings with Quest SharePlex

Spansion - Customer Case Study

Spansion, a leading flash-memory technology provider with more than 3,000 employees, needed to upgrade a 1.2 TB Oracle database that supports its statistical process control system from Oracle 9i on HP-UX to Oracle 11g on Linux with minimal downtime. A manual export/import attempt failed within the planned 24-hour window, creating risk to continuous factory operations and potential high costs from production disruption.

Spansion deployed Quest’s SharePlex for Oracle to perform real-time replication to the new system without degrading production performance. The team completed the migration in under three months with no downtime, retained an easy failback option, recovered seamlessly after a server restart, avoided potentially six-figure losses, and improved IT’s reputation—prompting plans to use SharePlex for future migrations.

Spansion

Hugo Tellez

Section Manager/DBA for IT Infrastructure