Endeavour Energy halves database maintenance and licensing costs with OCI
Using Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI, the electricity provider cuts costs and gives tech teams more time to explore new technology.
“Exadata on OCI has given us time back in our working day, and that's so important when you’re running a busy business. We’re not having to do the business-as-usual grind work, like patching on-premises databases. That releases my staff to concentrate on improving our database environments.”
Endeavour Energy provides infrastructure and services that deliver electricity to over 2.7 million people throughout a 25,000 square kilometer region in New South Wales, Australia. As the company’s on-premises hardware approached end of life, Endeavour Energy considered multiple options for moving its key workloads and databases to the cloud. The company migrated its databases to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), updating them to the current version of Oracle Exadata Database Service. By closing its on-premises data center and saving IT staff time using cloud automations, the company has cut database maintenance and license costs by 50%.
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Why Endeavor Energy chose Oracle
Endeavour Energy, an Oracle customer for more than 20 years, was running an outdated version of Oracle Exadata on hardware that was nearing end of life. The company hosted its key workloads on this aging platform, including the metering and geospatial applications that are essential to building and maintaining the physical infrastructure that transmits electricity to customers. Faced with upgrading its hardware or moving databases to the cloud, Endeavour Energy evaluated its options, including migrating to Microsoft Azure and using a third-party provider to support its Oracle Databases. Oracle offered the company a range of possibilities, including refreshing its servers, moving its Oracle Database licenses to a competitor’s cloud, or migrating its databases to OCI. Ultimately, the company chose to migrate its databases to Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI based on anticipated cost savings and the platform’s optimization for reliability, scalability, and security.
Results
The company migrated 43 databases without code changes to Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI. Endeavour’s most important workloads, including its geographic information and billing applications, run in Exadata on OCI. OCI automatically scales up or down based on the seasonal and operational changes in demand for these services. By hosting its databases on OCI, and with the automated management capabilities in Oracle Exadata Database, employees no longer spend time on extensive hardware management and database administration. This frees up IT staff to focus on improving the technology services that customers and employees rely on.
Implementing Oracle Exadata Database Service with its automated patching capabilities helped the company reduce its cybersecurity vulnerabilities. OCI’s extensive network of cloud regions provides redundancy of data and applications to help maintain availability of the company’s technology services across its geographically diverse operations.
Partners
Endeavour Energy used Oracle Cloud Lift Services to move its non-production database workloads to OCI. Using an Oracle partner to migrate production workloads to OCI helped the company save time and costs. “Using Oracle Cloud Lift Services provided a blueprint for migrating our production workloads to OCI in a fast and cost-effective way,” says Colin Stevenson, the company’s infrastructure manager.
About the customer
Founded in 2011, Endeavour Energy is using technology to help the company adapt to the changing needs of its customers. It moved from being a traditional “poles and wire” electricity network to become a distributed systems operator.