TIS Helps Meidensha Migrate DR Site to Cloud with Oracle

TIS Inc., a member of the TIS INTEC Group, announces that it has migrated the Oracle Exadata Database Machine used at Meidensha Corporation’s DR site to a cloud service using TIS’s “Oracle Exadata Cloud Migration Service.” This has reduced the high costs of maintaining two on-premise environments by approximately 50%.

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure provided by Oracle Japan is a service that provides Exadata, the optimal platform for Oracle Database processing, as a dedicated environment on the public cloud, enabling migration to the optimal database infrastructure environment in the enterprise domain. It also supports multi-cloud integration with other cloud environments. Databases are managed in an integrated manner on the cloud, reducing the burden of system operations. It also supports hybrid clouds, and can be used as a BCP (Business Continuity Plan)/DR (Disaster Recovery) measure for Exadata currently operated on-premise.

TIS’s “Oracle Exadata Cloud Migration Service” is a service for migrating enterprise database systems running on-premise to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure. This service provides a one-stop service for migrating systems including Oracle Database to OCI and Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, from consulting to migration and operation and maintenance.

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Meidensha is a major manufacturer of heavy electrical equipment that supports society’s lifelines, such as electricity and railway power infrastructure, water filtration and treatment systems, etc. The company also operates a wide range of electricity-related businesses, including automobile testing equipment (dynamometer systems) for which it has the top market share in Japan, and electric vehicle motors.

Meidensha first introduced Exadata in its West Japan data center in 2017 to strengthen its data warehouse (DWH), which accumulates and manages sales and delivery performance data. To operate Exadata as a DWH, more than 10 business systems were migrated to this Exadata, and an integrated database environment that supports mission-critical operations was first established. After that, a second Exadata was introduced in the East Japan data center, and a DR site was built to prepare for disasters and failures, strengthening BCP measures.

However, operating these two Exadata servers posed cost issues, such as the cost of updating every five years and monthly data center maintenance costs. For this reason, they were considering taking measures to improve the situation before the next maintenance deadline. Therefore, Meidensha began considering a next-generation network configuration at the end of 2021, with a view to combining it with the cloud.

Reasons for choosing TIS and “Oracle Exadata Cloud Migration Service”

Considering the risk of impacting their mission-critical business, TIS and Meidensha decided to continue the production environment in the West Japan Data Center as is, and to review only the DR site in the East Japan Data Center. They then compared several options for switching from Exadata to a cloud service, while leaving the option of continuing with the existing Exadata open. TIS and the “Oracle Exadata Cloud Migration Service” were selected for the following reasons:

Extensive knowledge of Oracle products

The two existing Exadata systems were also introduced with support from TIS, and the company’s track record of holding study sessions for Meidensha engineers on topics such as tuning Exadata and how to conduct performance evaluations gave the company confidence in its knowledge and technical capabilities regarding databases.

Satisfying requirements in terms of quality, cost, operation, etc.

Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure is a service that provides Exadata, including Oracle Database, as a dedicated environment on the public cloud, OCI, and offers significant cost savings compared to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, a hybrid cloud database platform provided by Oracle, with no data center costs.

SOURCE: PRTimes