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Customer Case Study
Manufacturer Accelerates Business Cycle Times
Challenge
Headquartered in San Jose, California, Avago Technologies is a leading global
manufacturer of optoelectronics and analog interface components. Approximately
3500 employees in 13 countries serve 40,000 customers worldwide.
manufacturer of optoelectronics and analog interface components. Approximately
3500 employees in 13 countries serve 40,000 customers worldwide.
Avago uses Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle E-Business Suite
for major business processes, including order management, finance, procurement,
planning, manufacturing, reporting, and business intelligence. “Ninety percent of our
business operates on a single instance of Oracle E-Business, so the reliability and
performance of the underlying platform are critically important,” says Shreyas Shah,
senior director of global IT for Avago Technologies.
for major business processes, including order management, finance, procurement,
planning, manufacturing, reporting, and business intelligence. “Ninety percent of our
business operates on a single instance of Oracle E-Business, so the reliability and
performance of the underlying platform are critically important,” says Shreyas Shah,
senior director of global IT for Avago Technologies.
Previously, Avago housed its Oracle application stack on an Intel-based platform
operating Oracle Linux 5.2. When the compute infrastructure in Avago’s Singapore
test/development and production data centers needed a refresh, the IT team decided
to evaluate computing systems based on reliability, support, operational efficiency,
performance, and integration with the existing EMC storage area network. During the
migration, Avago would be upgrading to Oracle Linux 5.4 and Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC) 11g R1. “The challenge would be accomplishing all this with no more
than 48 hours downtime,” Shah says.
operating Oracle Linux 5.2. When the compute infrastructure in Avago’s Singapore
test/development and production data centers needed a refresh, the IT team decided
to evaluate computing systems based on reliability, support, operational efficiency,
performance, and integration with the existing EMC storage area network. During the
migration, Avago would be upgrading to Oracle Linux 5.4 and Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC) 11g R1. “The challenge would be accomplishing all this with no more
than 48 hours downtime,” Shah says.
To complicate the challenge, the company had only seven months
to refresh the two Singapore data centers and build a new disaster
recovery facility in Colorado.
to refresh the two Singapore data centers and build a new disaster
recovery facility in Colorado.
Avago Technologies
Manufacturing
San Jose, California
3500 Employees
Challenge
Manufacturing
San Jose, California
3500 Employees
Challenge
• Build operationally efficient
data center
• Accelerate business cycle times
• Help ensure business continuity
• Help ensure business continuity
Solution
• Migrated complete Oracle solution
stack to Cisco Unified Computing
System powered by Intel® Xeon®
processors, including Oracle Linux,
Oracle Real Application Clusters
(RAC), and Oracle E-Business Suite
• Virtualized environment with
VMware 4 on Cisco Unified
Computing System
• Connected to core Cisco Nexus
7000 Switches over 10 Gigabit
Ethernet
Results
• Accelerated long-running batch
processes by 30-40 percent
• Increased business flexibility
with wire-once architecture and
virtualization
• Decreased operational costs by
40 percent, despite adding third
data center
Executive Summary